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Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 1, Chapter 2 : preparation for college; Monmouth and Yarmouth Academies (search)
Chapter 2: preparation for college; Monmouth and Yarmouth Academies
During the interval between father's death and the marriage of my mother, I had been much leaned upon and trusted as the eldest.
To harness and control a horse attached to a carriage, or to drive one or two yoke of oxen, were no uncommon tasks.
Of course, the praise for this precociousness set me up not a little.
The new home changed all this.
My stepfather was very kind always and humored my whims; but his youngest son, two years my senior, by his criticisms and odd speeches soon made me feel that I was not yet a man. He evidently meant to take the conceit out of Otis.
This discipline while I was learning and participating in all the farm work, which a lad ten years of age could do, was really needed and wholesome.
But the new conditions and neighborhood associations made my watchful mother very anxious for a change.
The first autumn before I was eleven in November, she sent me away to a high school at