His son, Samuel Edison, thought he saw a moral in the old man's exile.

His father had taken the King's side and had lost his home; Samuel would make no such error.

So, when the Canadian Rebellion of 1837 broke out, Samuel Edison, aged thirty-three, arrayed himself on the side of the insurgents.

This time, however, the insurgents lost, and Samuel was obliged to flee to the United States, just as his father had fled to Canada.

He finally settled at Milan, Ohio, and there, in 1847, in a little brick house, which is still standing, Thomas Alva Edison was born.
When the boy was seven the family moved to Port Huron, Michigan.
The fact that he attended school only three months and soon became self-supporting was not due to poverty.