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| | pgs. 699- 706; A- I; Ross Township Biographies, History of Fremont County, Iowa 1881 |
 | | He was married to Miss Frances Asman, of Lincolnshire, England, May 18, 1843, and in 1851 came to the United States. |
 | | The earlier years of his life were spent upon the farm, but he early developed a great love for books and study, and at the age of sixteen years having graduated from the high school of Bolton, Massachusetts, began teaching. |
 | | After a course of normal training he was called at the age of twenty-one to succeed the lamented Dana P. Colburn as professor of mathematics in the N. Normal Institute, at Lancaster, Massachusetts. |
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