Life and Work of Enoch Howard: An Autobiography (Classic Reprint)

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Enoch Howard a native of Morrow County, Ohio, was born on a farm near Chesterville. His first move toward a business career was to come as an inexperienced farmer boy into Delaware, according to a previous agreement with Messrs. Adam and Martin Miller, to engage his services with them for a term of years, to learn the practical part of the confectionery business, in which they were engaged at that time. He was accompanied from the farm home by his older brother, David, both on horseback, to within about ten miles of Delaware.

At that point, it was decided that the ten miles could be made by Enoch alone on foot, and his brother David returned with the horses to the old farm and the boy went tramping on to Delaware. One thing that was in favor of the boy on this tramp was, that his baggage was light. An invoice of his personal property would read as follows: One suit of clothes (on his person); some extra underwear, tied up in a red and white cotton handkerchief, and one single barrel "stub and twist" shotgun, which was a present from his uncle in Delaware.

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