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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 6., chapter 2 (search)
w. He also engaged in the insurance business, did private teaching, and, in fact, turned his attention to any form of honorable employment that would furnish a means of livelihoods On his birthday, March 12, 1866, he writes: I am twenty-eight years old and have hardly made a beginning in life; nevertheless, I have a clean record, and strong hopes of the future. This hopefulness for the future is a characteristic with which we who knew him in his later life have always been impressed. April 6, 1866, he sought and obtained the position of principal of the high school in Lexington, and began his duties there on the tenth of the same month. He had not wholly, and did not for several years, relinquish his intention to enter upon the practice of law, and we find from his journal and notes that during all the time he was teaching at Lexington he was pursuing his law studies. He also was very active in his literary work, writing stories and essays, likewise perfecting himself in stenog