This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 Excerpt: ...but which then contained not a single habitation. He soon utilized the fine water power afforded by the beautiful stream on which he first fixed his hopes of future usefulness to himself, family and State. From an humble beginning in the manufacture of cotton gins, he soon realized sufficient means to enable him to ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 Excerpt: ...but which then contained not a single habitation. He soon utilized the fine water power afforded by the beautiful stream on which he first fixed his hopes of future usefulness to himself, family and State. From an humble beginning in the manufacture of cotton gins, he soon realized sufficient means to enable him to erect one of the most extensive establishments of the kind in the United States, and his name in connection with that special branch of manufacturing is known almost wherever cotton is planted and raised. He established on the same stream a splendid cotton factory, a woollen factory, and other branches of industry. He was a man of unbounded liberality. His munificent donations were confined to no sect or creed, no place or people. It descended upon and blessed the needy everywhere within the bounds of its beneficence. But there was no ostentation in his gifts. His right hand knew not what the left did. Had he hoarded all the earnings of his long and useful life, he would have left behind him an estate worth a million, instead of thousands. He was a patriot, too, in the highest and widest sense of the word. He loved his country for herself alone, and not as latter-day patriots do, for what could be made out of her offices of trust and profit. He was no office-seeker. Content to fill the sphere in which he reigned supreme, the world had no recompense of reward sufficiently tempting to lure him away from the hearts and homes of his family and friends. Had those friends commanded his services, he would have held them, as he did his purse, at their service; but he sought no man's vote for the sake of a promotion which he neither needed nor coveted. A Northern man by birth, he was in life a standing refutation of the charge that Northern men are not re...
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