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Excerpt from The Tale of a Plain ManIn the writing and publication of the first edition of these memoirs, at the request of my children and grandchildren, I was not in¿uenced by the thought that they would be read except from a sense of filial duty. There has been such an unexpected demand for them that after the first edition of five hundred copies was exhausted I have turned a copy of the memoirs, after revision and some additions, over to T...
Excerpt from The Tale of a Plain Man
I have no recollection of being born, but from what has been told me, and other evidence I am convinced that I was born on the 18th day of April, 1846, in Delmar Township, Tioga County, Pennsylvania. My father was a widower when he married my mother by which circumstance 1 had a half sister and three half brothers. He was a small farmer on a fifty-acre farm and his best crop was children-not in quality per...
