Her early studies were of service to her in enabling her partially to prepare for college her two oldest boys.

She assisted her husband also in his literary plans, without losing the domestic character of a good wife, and the refining graces of a true woman.
But let us not forget that James is still a boy in his teens.

He had many hardships to encounter, and many experiences to go through before he could set up a home of his own.

He had studied three years, but his education had only begun.

The Geauga Seminary was only an academy, and hardly the equal of the best academies to be found at the East.
He began to feel that he had about exhausted its facilities, and to look higher.