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Description:Excerpt from Lives of Blaine and Logan: The People's Edition; Book of Reference James G. Blaine was born on the old Indian Hill Farm, in Washington County, Pennsylvania, January 31, 1830.On this farm his great grandfather, the elder Neal Gillespie, had settled before the outbreak of the Revolution. The paternal great-grandfather of Mr. Blaine was a Penn-sylvania colonel in the revolution. His home was in that settlement of the Scotch-Irish people the Cumberland Valley. It followed that the Blaines were all Presbyterians. It is told of Colonel Blaine that he was a friend of General Washington, who attributed the preservation of the ragged continentals from starving while at Valley Forge to the generous act of Colonel Blaine, while commissary-general of the Northern department of the army, in contributing and collecting large sums of money for the purchase of supplies. Ephraim L.Blaine, the grandson of the revolutionary hero, lived in Washington County before 1842, at West Brownsville. In that year, as a Whig, he was elected to the office of prothonotary of the courts, and moved to Washington. Tradition says he lived in good style, held his head rather high, was much respected, and was loved more for a generosity and hospitality from which no one but himself felt any ill effects. The son of the prothonotary, now the Republican candidate for President of the United States, a few years ago, after a long absence, paid a visit to his birthplace, recognized the house at a glance, and promptly answered the salutations of his old friends calling by their names or nicknames persons whom he had not seen for many years In his youth Blaine was tall and thin, and, on account of his shyness and reticence in their society, was not a general favorite with the village belles. He was quick, intelligent, read a good deal, and was fond of fun. A gentleman who recently visited Blaine's birthplace at West Brownsville, thus writes of it: - "See how the ivy climbs and expandsOver this humble hermitage.And seems to cover with its little handsThe rough gray stones, as a child that standsCaressing the wrinkled cheeks of age." 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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Lives of Blaine and Logan. To get started finding Lives of Blaine and Logan, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Excerpt from Lives of Blaine and Logan: The People's Edition; Book of Reference James G. Blaine was born on the old Indian Hill Farm, in Washington County, Pennsylvania, January 31, 1830.On this farm his great grandfather, the elder Neal Gillespie, had settled before the outbreak of the Revolution. The paternal great-grandfather of Mr. Blaine was a Penn-sylvania colonel in the revolution. His home was in that settlement of the Scotch-Irish people the Cumberland Valley. It followed that the Blaines were all Presbyterians. It is told of Colonel Blaine that he was a friend of General Washington, who attributed the preservation of the ragged continentals from starving while at Valley Forge to the generous act of Colonel Blaine, while commissary-general of the Northern department of the army, in contributing and collecting large sums of money for the purchase of supplies. Ephraim L.Blaine, the grandson of the revolutionary hero, lived in Washington County before 1842, at West Brownsville. In that year, as a Whig, he was elected to the office of prothonotary of the courts, and moved to Washington. Tradition says he lived in good style, held his head rather high, was much respected, and was loved more for a generosity and hospitality from which no one but himself felt any ill effects. The son of the prothonotary, now the Republican candidate for President of the United States, a few years ago, after a long absence, paid a visit to his birthplace, recognized the house at a glance, and promptly answered the salutations of his old friends calling by their names or nicknames persons whom he had not seen for many years In his youth Blaine was tall and thin, and, on account of his shyness and reticence in their society, was not a general favorite with the village belles. He was quick, intelligent, read a good deal, and was fond of fun. A gentleman who recently visited Blaine's birthplace at West Brownsville, thus writes of it: - "See how the ivy climbs and expandsOver this humble hermitage.And seems to cover with its little handsThe rough gray stones, as a child that standsCaressing the wrinkled cheeks of age." 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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Lives of Blaine and Logan. To get started finding Lives of Blaine and Logan, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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