Show the boyhood e 19 of famous vr americans kit acri uc g craid ri george P F baker uncle john could alt it on till ills porch and take it while the 0 other t it e r farmers farni cre uro hard lit I 1 bork lie lived til ell end and en on joica himself ills 1113 nephew wondered on dered how a man c could 0 it I 1 d lime ha oil all the lie tie ces silles of life and some of the luxuries without huang to work mork boang of nn an in mind he asked for the answer to such a puzzle he lie told tint his uncle had nn an in come from his savings and arid was able to live on the interest of his money motley that was as how george a F raker baker sot got his fits first lesson in thrift and in the value of saeng and invest ing he lie mas as his grand in dedham mass nass where tie lie spent much of hij fili vacations as a boy when hen he learned the lesson that nas uns to help make him one of the worlds leading bankers and enable him to amass a tremendous fortune george F baker baler aas as born in troy N X Y in 1840 ills father nas a merchant who mitt at one time had a shoo business in new york city the older baker haber dada didn t enjoy bueng giai IDS and selling he lie became a reporter under horace greeley reeley fl on the new lork tribune he lie specialized hi in lis he lie beci became laie a washington correspondent for his tits paper laler later holding numerous political i os libis LB ills son us as eight years old uricz lie family to brooklyn loung george went to school in but spent much touch time nith mith his tits grandparents in mas alas the country air agreed alth him he lie on n it and becane a sturdy and robust loung ster it alts iia ut at dedham th that a t he jai laid d the foundation for the strong constitution ution that has enabled him to be P for so many bears cars there also through the he example of his ills kunle he lie learned the lesson in finance that helped him in laang la ing the foundation for his ills great fortune he lie fame A ills 11 first r s t i money ioney I 1 during a vacation a callon at dedham by gath gathering crIng cranberries left under the bushes bustles by the ho ile carried the berries to the barn in pall dumped lacni it cut in a sleigh kle lh that wis iris stored until the coming of the lie new enn angland aln ln ter and aud mica ft lien it nas its full and all the beirley salin sail aged ged he lie sold the batch for 7 tint thit was mas good mono mone fur for i boy in lit those days before the chit 1 war mar loung oung baker baler haste in ate it on canilo or enter M the example of his ills uncle in mind he ile bied 1 it hie ilia youthful fin finagler anler fi nihed ills tits at begird beird ut t I 1 loreda N I 1 mien ie hp was uns six 11 teen airs old ills first job was as in a small albiny link bink his ills f fi i their ishop host in politics had find him blin an nil election to the map staff mas a to lio bo arn 11 II chirk at the ilia time thile alic corked bard learning the rudiments of if the hink ins lim hii Iniss hut but lie tin lind time to enjo after the he fibron of the youth of lie the period he ile droe ills his oui oin horse and anti bu gy ile got lits tits ectrene 1 li bolln on oil the lie up tip per hudson schillig haq n gmt deport nn on lie the aher at ann tin nl troy in thop d t it e feie et e good bout clubs and lid god youn baklar bas one of the ilia best bet he ile nas skilled to aln in a scull ing chimpen alp of the ilia upper landon 1 II 11 I ins also nethe in lit hueth gunj lecture work mork lift to uns as badly injured in A rail rall rond in IS io tor or it line it mis v is liou thou glit one ot 01 ills legs would mould line hie to ie le amputated he lie recoe recovered ired and as secretary aid ni d mili military tiry secretary setre tary to goi 0 o 1 iborg morin rin atho IRS hief of if the nt tit tilt lip cout breal if tf the chil 1 war before ahli lie bid corked as a clerk in the stale banking bari bing debirt hll ills ply lily there was as M it air lint but he ina manager nager to sae of lils his firt i cars salary ills aither was as in A ish Ingli n ns As feriv tary to ilo cullim 11 II ge sittard a r d and A n I 1 boung bilker bober returned to the ilia binl ing otlien ben governor morgan retired aiom ollice office he lie ma known is the lest in corned lerk ills knowledge soon ie lini lon an to enter eliter tho tile hanking banking for himself he ile became Inter interested eted in the lite plan of ecret arv of flip treasury binse to pell sell bonds through hanks 4 and find to forni banks milli fildi could pled pledge 0 bohills for ill cli dilation of up to DO 00 per cent of their mine alue lie the proposition mer mith john a new lork mill and in inlaw 1 mow the ile I 1 amt N I 1 finnk alil m valli ith at 11 cavitalo of V 00 00 zoll of the einung ung banker all ali the stock lie anted and promised to arav it for blin hut but geor e baker baler nt tit lie the time dian didn i belle e in some misguided friend had barned him being a borrow er so he lie used wed onla lila hn on oun siong to buy owl ills nest cg eg 1 er miffed gilm to tiny thirty birty harcq he ile also alo berrice a teller and lid cef before fore long tile lie in ins diler lilor of the tile bink hink he lie pr ered anil anti later borrowed the mone with which to in get got control ol 01 the institution mitch he lie nas uns dea des tined to male one of the atron st ronet finan financial eln concerns in the lie world da u 1938 1930 by the naith A NeW newpher All lauce |