I have often heard him speak of Mrs.Tod as the most admirable woman he had ever known.

He remained with the Tod family only a few years, until old enough to learn a trade.

He went first, I believe, with his half-brother, Peter Grant, who, though not a tanner himself, owned a tannery in Maysville, Kentucky.

Here he learned his trade, and in a few years returned to Deerfield and worked for, and lived in the family of a Mr.Brown, the father of John Brown--"whose body lies mouldering in the grave, while his soul goes marching on." I have often heard my father speak of John Brown, particularly since the events at Harper's Ferry.

Brown was a boy when they lived in the same house, but he knew him afterwards, and regarded him as a man of great purity of character, of high moral and physical courage, but a fanatic and extremist in whatever he advocated.