Poor Boys who Became United States Pesidents

Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 69, 13 November 1883, Page 3

Poor Boys who Became United States Pesidents

An exchange culls che following historical facts, which should encourage every young man struggling under discouragemeut and poverty : — John Adams, second President, was the son of a farmer of moderate means. The only start he had was a good education. Andrew Jack_on was born in a log Imt in North Carolina, and was raised in the pine woods for which the Stat >- is famous. James K. Polk spent the earlier part ol his life helping to dig a living out ot a farm in North Carolina. Hu was afterwaHs clerk in a country store. Milliard Filmore was the son of a New York farmer, and his home was a humble one. He learned the business of a clothier. . James Buchanan was bom among the Alleghany mountains. His father cwt logs and built his own house in •what was then a wilderness. Abraham Lincoln was the son of a very poor Kentucky farmer, and lived in a log cabin until he was twenty-one years of age. Andrew Johnson was apprenticed to a tailor at the age of ten years by his widowed mother. He was never able to attend school, and picked up all the education he ever got. General tjrant lived the life of a common boy in a common house on the hanks of the Ohio River until he wa? seventeen years of age. James A. Garfield was born in a log cabin. H e worked on a farm until he was strong enough to hold the carpenters tools, when he learned the trade. He afterwards worked on the canal.