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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 22., When a boy in Medford (search)
the last survivor of that conventual school. When fourteen years of age he left Mr. Angier's school to learn the printer's trade. He had read the life of Benjamin Franklin, which inclined him to that mechanical art. The proprietor of the New England Farmer was a relative, and in his family he found kind friends and a happy homrd schools, both public and private, and the influence of the home of his grandparents that gave him a start in his business career. His interest in the life of Franklin read in his boyhood led him to secure (on opportunity) the old Ramage press, said to have been used by Franklin, for the Bostonian Society, in whose rooms in theranklin read in his boyhood led him to secure (on opportunity) the old Ramage press, said to have been used by Franklin, for the Bostonian Society, in whose rooms in the Old State House it may be seen. May the many Medford schoolboys that throng our streets and schools with all the modern advantages, have as successful a career.