Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.
CHAPTER II.
MY BOYHOOD DAYS AND EARLY LIFE. Born at Lancaster, Ohio, May 10, 1823--Death of My Father and Its Effect on Our Family--Early Days at School--A Dead Sheep in the Schoolroom--Lesson in Sunday Sport--Some of My Characteristics--My Attack on the Schoolmaster--Robbing an Orchard--A Rodman at Fourteen and My Experiences While Surveying--Debates at Beverly--Early Use of Liquor--First Visit to Mansfield in 1839--The Famous Campaign of 1840--I Begin the Study of Law.