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Excerpt from The Brethren's Family Almanac, for the Year of Our Lord 1882: Being the Second After Leap Year, and Until the Fourth Day of July, the 106 of American Independence George Law, at 45 years of age, was a com mon day laborer on the docks and at present counts his fortune at something like $10 000, 000. Robert L. And Alexander Stuart, 'the sugar refiners, In their boyhood sold molasses candy. Which their widowed mother had made at a cent a stick, and to day they are worth probably 000 to $6 000 000 apiece. 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.