POOR BOYS WHO BECAME UNITED STATES PRESI DENTS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1530, 8 November 1883, Page 2

POOR BOYS WHO BECAME UNITED STATES PRESI DENTS.

An exchange culls the following his* torical facts, which should encourage overy young man struggling under discouragement and poverty':— John Adams, second President, was the son of a farmer of moderate means. The only start lie had was a good.education. Andrew Jackson was born : in A log hut in North Carolina, and was raised in the pine woods' for which tho State is famous, James K. Polk spent the earlier.part of his life helping to dig a living out of a farm in North Carolina. He was afterwards 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 born among tho Alleghany mountains. His father cut 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. Ho was never ablo to attend school, and picked up all tho education he ever got. General Grant lived tho life of a common boy in a Gommon house on His banks of the Ohio River until he-:Wasw. seventeen years of age, / James A. Garfield was born in a log. "> cabin. He 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.