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Page Biography 9
Appendix A
Lincoln in 1864 49
Appendix B
The power of personality 53
Appendix C
The man who did me a good turn 57
Appendix D
An inscription in a copy of "Echoes from the Sabine Farm" 61
HARLOW NILES HIGINBOTHAM
Harlow Niles Higinbotham, represented, to a singular degree, the best citizenship of the second and third half-centuries of the Republic. Born on an Illinois farm October tenth, 1838; educated in his native state; serving as a volunteer soldier through the Civil War; employed by a small dry-goods house and working for it loyally and with perfect integrity until it had become one of the greatest merchandising firms in the world, and he one of its most active partners; responding with ardor to every public call, whether it came from a newsboys' and bootblacks' club or from the World's Columbian Exposition; retiring from business at sixty or more, and giving his later years, with beautiful devotion, to his family and his favorite charities and public works; and dying at eighty in full career and with faculties unimpaired; such a life epitomizes the strength and character of the nation during its robust and adventurous formative period.
The story of his earlier years may be outlined in Mr. Higinbotham's own words; for a rough manuscript, autobiographical but written in the third person, was found among his papers after his sudden death. It begins as follows:
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