Identifier: historyofstateof04inbick (find matches)
Title: The history of the state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Bicknell, Thomas Williams, 1834-1925. cn
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Publisher: New York, The American Historical Society
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

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rency fol-lowing the Revolution made a great difference in hisfortune and that which followed the War of 1812proved another blow, but he and his sons were ex-tremely energetic and enterprising and their fortuneswere recouped. His wife was Lydia Haynes, of Ha-verhill, and they had eleven children, of whom Hiram,the father of Mr. Corliss was the youngest. HiramCorliss was a physician and became a very prominentfigure in Easton and the surrounding region, and prac-ticed medicine until he was over eighty years of age.He was three times married, but it was his first wife,Susan (Sheldon) Corliss, who was the mother of theMr. Corliss of this review. George Henry Corliss, the second child of Dr.Hiram and Susan (Sheldon) Corliss, was born June 2,1817, at Easton, N. Y. His educational advan-tages were decidedly meagre in the first instance,although he afterwards supplemented them, for thedistrict schools of that period, especially in the ruralneighborhoods, were anything but adequate. An Intel-
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yY/^yfy^ ^^4A^ BIOGRAPHICAL 383 int mind such as that of Mr. Corliss did not takeeg to absorb all they had to offer, and he was but(rteen years of age when he turned from his studiesi;_ began his business career. Like so many of1; great Americans, Mr. Corliss made this beginningrhe general store at Greenwich, as a clerk, and here»iained for upwards of three years, a thoughtful,nous lad, with dreams of things beyond his horizon.\ he grew older he came to feel more and more the(at need for further study and he determined atejth to compass this ambition in spite of every)tacle. Accordingly, in 1834, he gave up his posi-i; in the store and entered an academy in. Castle-X \t where he remained the full four years andived himself a student of intelligence and a scholarHtt iinments. As yet, however, he had no idea inxUK ii;i the line of work in which he was later tonu ^n famous, and with the exception of a youth- I e 1 It in the planning and building of a tempor- 1 r _t across Batten Kill, h

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