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Show I WAS BORN IN PRUSSIA F. W. Lehmann, one of Uncle Sam's mediators at the Niagara Falls peace conference, was born in Prussia, Prus-sia, and spent his boyhood days in the fields of his father's farm in Prussia, tending a small flock of sheep. Before the boy was ten years of age the family fam-ily moved to this country and settled in Cincinnati. Lehmann ran away from home and tramped several states, specializing specializ-ing in chores as a business, and went to Nebraska. There he tended sheep again, but shepherding for the great sheepmen of the West and watching a flock on the Prussian farm were different dif-ferent jobs. Lehmann was not interested inter-ested in his task, and neglected his charges in the interests of reading. Sterling Morton, father of Paul Morton, Mor-ton, took Lehmann away from sheep and put him among books in Tabor college, Iowa, which he quit with honors and a degree in 1873. The rest of Lehmann's story is just one rise after another. In St. Louis they tell you that Lehmann is one of the best lawyers in the country, and then add that his mind is more literary than legal. He Is also described as a large, rectangular man, stuffed with llj exact information. In his person he is large enough to afford room for .sufficient facts to qualify him as an unusually able lawyer, besides his literary storage space. He is generally said to be the best-read man in St. Louis, V and folks do read in that city. His hobby is the collecting of rare books, and lt he has probably the best collection of Dickens' first editions in the world. And probably, as he traveled to Niagara Falls, he had a volume of Burns in ihis pocket. |