Eminent Persons, Vol. 6
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Excerpt from Eminent Persons, Vol. 6: Biographies Reprinted From the Times James Gillespie Blaine was born on 31st January 1830, at Indian-hill Farm, in Washington County, Pennsylvania. His father, Ephraim Lyon Blaine, was of Scotch descent. He came of a stock that had settled in the Cumberland Valley about 1725; the ancestors of his mother, who was a Catholic, came from county Donegal; his great grandfather, Colonel Ephraim Blaine, made a figure in the War of Independence. He served with distinction from 1778 to 1783 as Commissary-General under Washington. The father of the future statesman was a country lawyer, who inherited an estate in Western Pennsylvania more remarkable for size than rental. Blaine has suffered much from indiscreet, unmeasured praise of party biographers, anxious to prove, in the crisis of a Presidential campaign, that he was a heaven-born leader of men. But they have not been able to discover respecting his achievements at school, in Lancaster, Ohio, or in Washington College, evidence of remarkable precocity. He was a lad of quick parts and good memory, who excelled in spelling matches - his biographers proudly and minutely record certain victories of this kind. He owed much to the instruction of an Englishman, Mr. Lyons, while he lived in the house of the Hon. Mr. Thomas Ewing, then Secretary of the Treasury, at Lancaster, Ohio. He began the study of law, but he never practised. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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