He was then educated at the Morton Academy (Harvey 215) where "he was a very good student, and his teacher, the Reverend Me. Norton himself, would later show up as a character in some of Daniel’s fiction". One year later he married Mary Tuffley and also "joined the army of the rebel Duke of Monmouth, who were attempting to take the throne from James II". The rebellion ended up a failure and as a result he and many other troops were semi-exiled from the country (Moore 1). By 1692, Daniel had gone bankrupt and "ended up owing over 17,000 pounds, and though he paid off all but 5,000 pounds within ten years, he was never free of debt" (Moore 1).
For many authors school came easy, but this was not true for Gary. As a young child Paulsen was never at the same school for more than 5 months. He struggled through school, graduating in 1957 from Thief River Falls High School (MN) with a D- average. After high school, he attended Bemidji College in Minnesota. To help pay his way through college he was a trapper.
The estate consisted of around £4500, most of it in claims upon the Earl, who thwarted these claims until his death in 1802. The Earl's successor, however, settled the claims with interest. After their father's death, the Wordsworth children were left under the guardianship of their uncles. Although many aspects of his boyhood were positive, he recalled bouts of loneliness and anxiety. It took him many years, and much writing, to recover from the death of his parents and his separation from his siblings.
George Clymer was born in Philedelphia in 1739. His father was from a respectable family of bristol, in England and after his emigration to america became married to a lady from Philedelphia. Clymer was left by his parents in an orphanage at the young age of seven. He was then taken care of by his maternal uncle William Coleman, a gentelman who was respected by everyone in Phildelphia The education of Clymer was directed by his uncle. He was the perfect man for the job.
Dickens went to William Giles’ school in Chatham, Kent, for approximately one year before his father’s money habits caught up with him. Dickens’ father was sent to prison for debt in 1824, when Dickens’ was just twelve years old. Following his father’s imprisonment, Dickens’ had to drop out of school to work at a boot-blacking factory along the River of Thames. He earned 6 shillings a week, which is a dollar and forty-four cents in US money. It was the best he could do to help support his family.
Altercations between the two cultivated into what would be a decade of spite. In 1826, Poe left Richmond to attend the University of Virginia, accumulating significant debt. Allan had sent Poe to college with less than a third of the money he needed, though Allan had enough money to pay for it all, and then some. Being shunned by his father, Poe soon took up gambling to raise money to pay his dues. By the end of his first semester, Poe was so desperate that h... ... middle of paper ... ...rk and measured.
George Washington was born on February 22, 1732 in a small town in Virginia. His father, Augustine Washington, was a very successful business man, who had already been married once when he met George’s mother Mary in 1731. George was the first of six children for Mary, and the third of nine children for Augustine. George was homeschooled for most of his childhood, and was brought up with very good morals. All of his brothers and sisters all survived into adulthood, which was not a normality back then.
Truman’s family did not have much money causing him not to attend college, so after graduating high school in 1901 he worked as a bank clerk along with other jobs. Five years after graduating high school he spent over a decade working with his father on his family’s 600-acre farm near Grandview, Missouri. While working on his family’s farm, Truman served in the Missouri National Guard. In 1917, when America entered World War I, Truman was in his early thirties and reenlisted in the National Guard and was sent to France. In 1919 when he returned from the war, Truman married Elizabeth “Bess” Wallace, his childhood friend.
The Constables were a large family, John was the fourth of six children. Though much is not recorded of John’s first school experince , he was sent to Lavenham at age seven (Shirley, 39). There like most of the pupils, ill-used, he finished it in Dedham grammar school under a Dr. Thomas Grimwood. John did not do well in his studies to justify seeking a career in the church like his father had wished (Taylor, 11). In fact, Constable’s only record of excellence at Dedham was in penmanship, and so he was quickly directed into the family business, becoming locally known as “the handsome miller” (Shirly, 39).
Theodore Roosevelt, born October 27, 1858, was the United States’ twenty sixth President. Roosevelt was born into a wealthy and socially dominant family. Though he was a quick thinker and very bright, he was not very physically fit; Roosevelt had severe asthma attacks as a youth. (Andrews) Roosevelt attended Harvard College starting with a science major, but his eventual majors were law and politics. After graduating Harvard in 1880, Roosevelt married his first wife, had his first child, and lost his wife two weeks after the birth of their daughter on Valentines day 1884.