Show born and rals d dS dr was S n might bi b moro mon It r W as 3 d c his but as a thI East ai Inn term the distinction by thoO those Jealous born bor borun I 5 nd who were than I sun un Illg J western mar mall mart i I J tw meat I t he may I I Ln Qan to Druna of old W Ne New w l II t Q from tb role U IJ shining dome t to the th Il rd J n bead hrad t ad Tile The rL drawl ond an nasal es I the th j l eye gestures gesture olce his hl salt gatt i It the rt i bear England Engird training and andon f October IS H 1139 1839 In Inin InI on O born which yc yet eL t re reL ret ree house bouEe I It in 1 a of ot places L t e O of the thC show aS n no halt s square re In ln lna l 1 claim to fame Canto com t a H U HIn IiI Iw In n which Ii Thomas that rt In the tile cornor comor of ot the time thed timet I torn born by Hancock aU ait aUthe al aita 1 d t I C the thC th houses In imi which are a t Longfellow and b heed saw time the theand J J and nd In the thO snub same square ay the first building erected Jol of George leeve t pe of or Portland and 1 te generations ro rn seven j t of oC this sketch ANCESTRY D S Cleee decided to locate iu 1 rge Portland he gave pave to tn II J Mil flu Ho HoI of ot aRea the name nume KM well veIt I on the i M house I which now of or the tue hay bay ba Ho lie brought t f um urne me of ot fasco easco 4 h urn on his last lut voyage oage from Crom fromi j named Michael d i i a IT do I be bC ame hi hl his 1 and one son on who lio 11 1 born bor led tr ty the Indians were unIon J nisi I Iam ml th daughters laughters Anna I I anted am respectively Thomas Thoma and anel from the I 11 Thomas Drackett Tt t original Andrew tal of Portland and all of ot I jid rd Ills His r married n a mann man named pinned R and his grandson Is the I P ik Ht tt need Heed of or today to 1 ivf d the Ih male side Bide of oC the Reed need j tr leads leeds one to believe that er r Jl ker Inherited from his hl 11 1 his physique sailors d i tint laziness which he found It Id bIt to ho overcome until well velt past pastI lt I tit of I maturity That he ho was aI a i I Is Im no ho manner of oC doubt Eft 11 hew him as mis a boy 00 admitted i that he was bright enough h but b u t ho he I to was vrn q uncommonly Indolent and ease case lov by lovIng lovIng BO so Ing tog that no one ono believed ho lie amount to anything sailor and at tit one ono time tinie rooi ro o oto Heed H ll was wall tv a 1 to the tho command communel of ot u it small calling nailing ves yes gel Iel so Heeds father was vas also a sailor Bailor at on oi stage In his career but he that life lite for Cor the tho kelly Ideally he llly sedentary om ouo of oC watchman In lii a 11 sugar factory II lIe was ft tL good citizen but lie he Myel was Ii In line for tor a presidential nomination Hi lb married Matilda Mitchell u a superior woman who was wa accused 1 by her lien rela reI a lives of oC throwing herself herselt away whet when she married Tom foOl Heed Reed and It was con asserted that she did dill so In t z a fit Jit of r III quo caused by 1 paternal Inter Interference terence ference In a love affair Ho lIe this otis as ns It I Imay It may It Is I sure sLime that the lie traits which have forced Thomas Brackett Heed t tc to the tho foreground come from Crom ruin his mother and from his maternal nm ancestors IllS HIS jl 1 S HUMBLE II 11 U Tho Time house In which Thomas H II Hew Heed born Is of a type common In hi loca locations Ions dominated by ducks docks railroad mil road yards omit and factories Ills parents were poor Ioor ami and were content with humble apartments apartment in Hancock street The building yet et stands exactly ns as It did sixty odd years ago uit More factories have crowded In around It but a glance glanc at the surroundings Is ls to tu Indi Indicate cate that It has hUM always R been a 11 poor loor neighborhood The rooms arc me small and ami few tew In number There Is no front yard and und only an In excuse for a n back backyard backyard I yard 0 The Tho Infant Heed probably played i inure mure In the dirt than on any grassy I lawns One hundred yards ards to ti the th south are the railroad II road tracks and beyond them the time wharves ant and amI docks Up tp the hill to the ho west vest Is the famous old lust last Kastern cnn ern cemetery c of or Portland within whoso whose moss mo s grown walls Wahl the tue rude forefathers of or the tho hamlet steel sleep As AR has already been bren Intimated In this sketch time the boy Heed bleed Will not fond rond of work Ills His fathers rathers cow was Willi the th bane of ot his hi youth She Sh Interfered with hunt huntIng lag Ing and fishing arid and swimming and In III Inn hit n a t general way demanded dem ndell an nil amount of attention from rota Torn Tom which was In the th extreme The cow gave m the milk cream and the cream had ha to tobe toLie tobe be Lie churned and amid that tha t meant more work for tOl Tom It Is but bat another mini prot of oC the Innate savagery er of or the male of or the human species that all nil bays bos regard Work york ns na something degrading Indians and other savages hold the same name views and mu relegate nil all work w to squaws and superannuated warriors Being n II normal boy oy Tom Heed thus looked coked d on work and liked It not lie He regarded It as a punishment and amid not hot as asi 11 i L blessing One day his mother tied an aim around him to keep him from totting getting his clothes soiled and so set el him hImI lo to I work churning butter It was wag a aline alna line lna spring day ibay 1111 with a n southeast wind ind Lild the were sere biting out In Inthe Inthe the he bay ha lie He was Wn proceeding reluctantly antly task hsk when a n number numbe of or joys bos came vaine along find and Seemed jeered at It him 1 DD c r L t CWt A r AV AIn J n n r 77 tw n AA iii w A V iii in His Youthful Days the Czar pi of the tile House of Representatives Gave no iio Early A Promise of Future He tic HOot Got Religion as US a U Youth Was A g Schoolmaster ster Theological Student Stu ent Lawyer Law cr Emigrant to California and As AsI I AI Distant Paymaster in the Navy Entertaining Stories of Tom Toni Reeds Boy Boyhood Boyhood oy A V I hood Told by Frederick Upham Adams in the thc New York Herald I A 0 A V t t fl 7 J Y 11 I i I D D when It The Tho butter was as In that stage demanded steady and unceasing agitation tion Young Heed bleed churned away aay Ia his hili with every motion of or the anger an er rising dasher lIe He looked locket for Cor a it I stone stile or n U brick but saw Raw none In sight If H ho lie left toft he lie would catch n U that butter he knew whipping from his lila mother If I walt wait until I 1 get this butter head off art as asserted assorted churned Ill pound your sorted tho the boy ho ns us he sent Rent the th dasher his down with a splash which speckled mothers apron with buttermilk The fhe boys boy were vere obliging and nn am 1 consented to They nh all no imo tight fight wall wait There Th rt was went fishing finning and on the WilY way found pleasure In taunting another boy who was wan potatoes This Is a true stol and has no special moral When Tom Torn was six years enlo old he ho was WIS sent to school lie He first went to n a school on oil street str et lIe He was then thou n ii tow towheaded headed little fellow chow with fat fut cheeks and his hits eyes ces were round ns As buttons I There are many ninny people living hivIng In and around who Will remember him ns liS asa n a schoolboy He Ito was Wm attentive and Un Unfairly fairly studious for tor the first three or four years and ant the tho reverse from froni that I I time until the time latter part of or his hits college collego I days das I IThe I The first public appearance of ot Thom Thomas ThomOs I Iwas I as Os II Heed as ns an nn orator wan when heo he old ahi I I was n ii primary pupil In tn Street school Every lory Friday aft I I there was wall r a session lIe devoted to tIme the thor rending r of or essays t antI and to declamations Thomas committed to memory and rc re cited In n a most earnest manner the following Old lim Crow came by Says Sas I old OKI man nina your horse ham will wiil die dieSl Says Sl 8 he hI It If he tiles dies I will tan his skin And AmI If IC ho he lives Ill ride agin And Amid nd all nil I t know Ino concluded I tIme the round faced Tom Reed Hoed as ns he lie made maJe madea a clumsy clums bow and returned to his e at WANTED TO BE UE A SAILOR When yet et a n lad bail l d of or twelve he lie came caine Into possession po of oC a fourteen foot root boat which drifted ashore near Fort Allen Alien lIen His 1118 father tot her patched time the craft cratt up antI and Tom became bec nethe the proud owner of oC a U real boat In a n short time lm he managed ed to secure enough canvas for tor a sail salli and for years that craft explored all the tho In J I I I I 1 lets leto bays bas and shoals of or Casco Hay flay Ua In search serch of or fish or adventure Torn Tom win wina M n a 1 good sailor and his parents hind had little fear of or u Li mishap More Moro than Ulan that he tie kept tho the family larder well ehl supplied with fish lbs His III favorite grounds were vere near the tho rocks Portland Head Light several sevrai mlle down the harbor Many Maimy Ian were vero the genelous catch catches es el made by lIy tho tIme youthful fisherman and ami andas as mis he ho pulled at nt the lines or o strained at itt atthe the time oars ho lie dreamed of oC the day Ia when he should he be In command of or a boat with towering masts and jl a spread of ot white canvas J When the schoolboy hUll had mastered the rudiments of oC time the threS thre ns Bs ho be became became came Caine an omnivorous ol reader Unlike the good auth successful boys hos In the story storybooks storybooks books he ho did not devote rl yote his lila limo to his hili history history tory ton an seemingly I had no Intent to Improve his hili mind Ills His favorite books were werl dime novels miami he ho real read and re ro tho wonderful output of M Beadle Bendle and other publishers of ot lurid literature With run un on his shoulder and amid Duck Buck Buckskin skin Joe In lila his pocket he would wan wun thor dor out Into the woods mind spend the day dllY In hunting and reading There Thero Is 19 no evidence to show fiat In these years he lie diLl did anything to contribute to tolila lila his own support except as a n hunter bunter and alit fisherman Ho JIe wall ins a n sentimental dreaming lazy and purposeless boy bo be beThe The Tho neighbors were of or the tho almost almo t unanimous opinion that he would never amount to The elder eider Reed Heed gave the subject little thought and evidently assumed that the boy bo would become l a sailor A great revival spread over Portland when Tom Heed bleed was wal about fourteen years old oId In company with hundreds of oC others he lie got religion and joined the Lime State Street Congregational Church lie He renounced the mind and be became came n it attendant nt at church services and un nn In time the Sunday school Life b came more seri Berl serious sen jut ous with the time boy bo and he devoted him hIms s lr to his studies with a b zest which gratified 1 his teachers teach rs He lie was a leader I ader among the tIme young oung men nen of or the time church In nil entertain entertainments ments mentH and antI social lIo lal affairs anti soon tile Ills distinguished himself as a speaker In the various arlous services s held nun aUR ices The Tho good leaders t r the recognized In the boy the spark of ot geni p p p p A p S us and Interested themselves In his be bc behalf behalf half halt The statement has line been boon repeatedly made and denied dented that the women of oC the church raised the tho money with which Thomas H B Heed entered How BoW doln College Colle e with the purpose of or edu educating eating cating him him for tor or the lie ministry It 11 Is said that thu t the time young man soon Hoon discovered that he hI did not wish to be bl a 0 preacher and accordingly earned enough money teaching school to the women of ot the lie church who hiO had Interested them themselves themselves selves secs In his hlo behalf As All s a n result of ot this step Heeds was dropped from room the membership m of Ir the church This Is the time story star they tell In Portland It Is in certain that the time young oun man mann Intended to Join the time ministry but hut changed his mind and anel has not since been active In I church work t NOT OT A AT COLLEGE corL aE Heed had a n hard time line at The spirit of Industry which landed him there soon soomi and he lie re ro relapsed lapsed Into his old habits He lie 11 a it 1 room 1 In n a 1 house owned by b one of or his hili mothers relatives his IllS expenses for tor board and an 1 lodging were vere small lie He Hed q d 4 it MI to In earn enough ellough to pay tul tut tullon Ion hail tees fees and other expenses by doing oud Jobs and anti by Intervals of ot teaching I school chool Most Moat of or his spare time was spent In iii reading and he ho was vas as yet et fond rond of ot trashy and sensational literature The Tue room was filled with paper cov coY covered covered ered books bools he tie spent much time In their perusal As a result he made a avery aery avery very ery poor record r corll during the time first three years at nt collese collee lie He was fond rond of oC Thackeray anti and found Cound some pleasure In Inthe Inthe the time writings of or other standard authors but he much preferred that lint light and sensational stuff which appeals to the passions rather than to the Intellect In his studies he was waB fairly good goo In history grammar and rhetoric but hut sad sadly sadly ly Iy deficient In mathematics and scientific scientific title and technical studies He lie did not like them and was too to make tIme the necessary effort to inns mas master ter them Time The boy bo had haJ not ye yet ef reached that flint age ae when the world work was ivas more than thana thann a n place In i which to seek seck and emit find amusement no special sp ambi amid ambition tion At the age ago of oC nineteen Tom Toni Heed was vas as unlikely a u candidate for tor v future greatness as nu could be rt found In In Maine Certainly ho lie showed show d no signs igns of ot apt aptness aptness ness as a politician nor imor of t f leadership among boys bors or men omen He lie Just barely burely escaped being unpopular While hille not exactly quarrelsome he lie was by tt b no mentis means averse to trouble There was wasa a strapping oung fellow named Crow Crowell Crowell ell elf at nt who hud served nn an ap apprenticeship OH an u II blacksmith before belore entering en on entering college He lie was a good sort tort of ot a chap ChUI but hut Heed managed to get Into a dispute with wl h him and In the tho heat of or the time argument called bum him a 1 liar Crowell drew back and let Tom It from the shoulder Time The blow caught him him under theu tIme the ear and the tI e future rutur speaker of ot the this House e went down own and out He lie avoided any nn future arguments with Crowell and anti they th the became fairly good friends At the thiC th boarding house young oun Heed be 10 became limo collie angry during a political ar u mont ment and hurled a glass of water wat r at a 11 student who disputed one of ot his hlis state statements bouts ments This missed the time mark and ancl drenched two Innocent boarders hoarders and Heed Reed was forced to make nn 1111 apology These Incidents ate are related not for tIme the purpose of oC throwing an nn unfavorable light on the tho lie young oung student but to call attention to the filet fact that successful men muon are arc much the same annie In me us as ordinary mortals In their thel boyhood At this period perlo Heed was tas ns a II tall lanky I long haired boy bo of or eighteen or nineteen He lie yin was not particularly fond 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