REMINISCENCES OF CHILDHOOD AND EARLY SCHOOLING IN CONNECTICUT. THE RECOLLECTIONS OF AUGUSTUS EDWIN FOOT OF CLEVELAND, OHIO, DATED SEPT. 5, 1879, LOOKING BACK ON HIS BOYHOOD DAYS

by Augustus Edwin Foot

$225 · Offered by Bartleby's Books

Cleveland, Ohio: 1879 . A brief but nonetheless interesting autobiography of Augustus Foot, a little more than 3 pp., approx. 800 words, on lined paper, in a neat hand. The author records his birth in New Haven, Connecticut on Dec. 31, 1810. He mentions that his father was in the West India business as a shipping merchant until the outbreak of the War of 1812 and the Embargo which followed ruined his business. The family returned to Cheshire where his grandfather was a clergyman. The author

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