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Heroes of the Telegraph
·
John Munro
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Milan
is
situated
on
the
Huron
River,
about
ten
miles
from
the
lake,
and
was
then
a
rising
town
of
3,000
inhabitants,
mostly
occupied
with
the
grain
and
timber
trade.
Mr.
Edison
dwelt
in
a
plain
cottage
with
a
low
fence
in
front,
which
stood
beside
the
roadway
under
the
shade
of
one
or
two
trees.
The
child
was
neither
pale
nor
prematurely
thoughtful;
he
was
rosy-cheeked,
laughing,
and
chubby.
He
liked
to
ramble
in
the
woods,
or
play
on
the
banks
of
the
river,
and
could
repeat
the
songs
of
the
boatmen
ere
he
was
five
years
old.
Still
he
was
fond
of
building
little
roads
with
planks,
and
scooping
out
canals
or
caverns
in
the
sand.
An
amusing
anecdote
is
imputed
to
his
sister,
Mrs.
Homer
Page,
of
Milan.
Having
been
told
one
day
that
a
goose
hatches
her
goslings
by
the
warmth
of
her
body,
the
child
was
missed,
and
subsequently
found
in
the
barn
curled
up
in
a
nest
beside
a
quantity
of
eggs!
The
Lake
Shore
Railway
having
injured
the
trade
of
Milan,
the
family
removed
to
Port
Huron,
in
Michigan,
when
Edison
was
about
seven
years
old.
Here
they
lived
in
an
old-fashioned
white
frame-house,
surrounded
by
a
grove,
and
commanding
a
fine
view
of
the
broad
river,
with
the
Canadian
hills
beyond.
His
mother
undertook
his
education,
and
with
the
exception
of
two
months
he
never
went
to
school.
She
directed
his
opening
mind
to
the
acquisition
of
knowledge,
and
often
read
aloud
to
the
family
in
the
evening.
She
and
her
son
were
a
loving
pair,
and
it
is
pleasant
to
know
that
although
she
died
on
April
9,
1871,
before
he
finally
emerged
from
his
difficulties,
her
end
was
brightened
by
the
first
rays
of
his
coming
glory.
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