Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 July 1906 — SMALL BEGINNINGS OF FAMOUS MEN. [ARTICLE]

SMALL BEGINNINGS OF FAMOUS MEN.

J. Gould was a book agent. Henry Villard was a reporter. Elihu Burritt was a blacksmith. James McEwan was a printer. Benjamin Franklin was a printer. A. T. Stewart was a school teacher, James J. Hill began as a roustabout. Daniel Drew began as a cattle trader. Abraham Lincoln was a rail splitter. Cornelius Vanderbilt ferried his own boat. William Lloyd Garrison was a printer’s devil. John Wanamaker began life at $1.25 a week. Andrew Carnegie began life at $2 50 a week. William A. Clarke as a young man was a miner. John Jaoob Astor sold apples on the streets. Thomas Edison began as a telegraph operator. Henry H. Rogers was a grocer's delivery boy. John D. Rockefeller worked in a machine shop. Thomas F. Ryan was a dry goods clerk.