CHAPTER II.
GIRLHOOD AND SCHOOL-LIFE.
1826--1838.
By 1826, Daniel Anthony had become so well-known for business management that he received an offer from Judge John McLean, of Battenville, Washington county, N.Y., who already had built a factory there, to go into cotton manufacturing on an extensive scale, the judge to furnish capital, Mr.Anthony executive ability.

There was much opposition from the two older families to having their children go so far away (forty-four miles) and Lucy Anthony's heart was almost broken at the thought of leaving her aged father and mother, but Daniel was too good a financier to lose such an opportunity.

So on a warm, bright July morning the goods were started and the judge and his grandson, Aaron McLean, came with a big green wagon and two fine horses to take the family to Battenville.

Young Aaron little thought as he lifted the eight-year-old Guelma into the wagon that he was taking with him his future wife.

The new home was in a pretty village nestled among the hills on the Battenkill.