FARM AND SCHOOL I spent my life in Concord until I entered college except one year when I lived on a farm in Lincoln.

There I had an opportunity to see at its best the character of the New England farmer, a character which has impressed itself so strongly and so beneficently on our history.

Deacon James Farrar, for whom I worked, was, I believe, the fifth in descent from George Farrar, one of the founders of the town of Lincoln.
All these generations dwelt on the same farm and under the same roof.

An ancient forest came to a point not far from the house.

That, with a large river meadow and some fertile upland fields, made up the farm.