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Show . IS IT YOURS? i . . 1 MILBARD FTLBMORF Jammry 7. 1800. The thirteenth president of the United Unit-ed States, Millard Fillmore came from an old England family. His father, Nathaniel, had made a clearing out of the forest in what Is now tho town of Summerhlll N Y In a log hut In this clearing, Millard Fillmore wa.s born. Just as another and greater president was to be born In a log hut In the middlewcM Until hfl ;l8 19 Fillmore received practically no education at all but at tb it age ho was apprenticed to a clo-thler clo-thler and learned to card wool and to dyo cloth. Two years before the end of his apprenticeship, he bought his freedom with a promissory' note of $3". Somehow or other he managed lo go to school and Ao study law and finally he worked his way to Buffalo Within With-in three years ho was a full-gledged lawyer and had moved lo Aurora lo practice, because hlw father lived there. His political rise was not spectacular. spectacu-lar. He became president bee n use Zacharv Taylor died wliile in office and Flllmoro as vice president succeed-! ed hlin. Two Important things hap-( pened during hi! term of office. ne V..I- Qommodore Psrpy'p expedition, which opened up Japan to the world and the other was the exploration of the amasop by Lieutenants Herndon! and Gibbon. Fillmore was unsuccessful as a can dldate fr re-election. The famous Know-Nothing party put him up as candidate and he received tho electoral voles of only one state. Maryland. After Af-ter that ho took no public part in politics, pol-itics, i |