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Excerpt from Harlow Niles Higinbotham: A Memoir With Brief Autobiography and Extracts From Speeches and Letters Harlow Niles Higinbotham, represented, to a singular degree, the best citizenship of the second and third half centuries of the Republic. Born on an Illinois farm October tenth, 1838; educated in his native state; serving as a volunteer soldier through the Civil War; employed by a small dry-goods house and working for it loyally and with perfect integrity until it had become one of the greatest merchandising firms in the world, and he one of its most active partners; responding with ardor to every public call, whether it came from a newsboys' and bootblacks' club or from the World's Columbian Exposition; retiring from business at sixty or more, and giving his later years, with beautiful devo tion, to his family and his favorite charities and public works; and dying at eighty in full career and with fac ulties unimpaired; such a life epitomizes the strength and character of the nation during its robust and adventurous formative period. The story of his earlier years may be outlined in Mr. Higinbotham's own words; for a rough manu script, autobiographical but written in the thirdperson, was found among his papers after his sudden death. It begins as follows. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.