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Title: Portrait and biographical album of Isabella county, Mich., containing portraits and biographical sketches of ... citizens ... also containing a complete history of the county, from its earliest settlement to the present time
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Chapman Brothers, pub
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Publisher: Chicago, Chapman brothers
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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(^ NDREVV JACKSON, theth President of the/L nited States, was Ijoin inI Waxhaw settlement, N. (J.,March 15, 1767, a few daysafter his fathers death. His;)arents were pcxar emigrantsfrom Ireland, and took uptheir abode in Waxhaw set-tlement, where they lived indeepest poverty.Andrew, or Andy, as he wasuniversally called, grew up a veryrough, rude, turbulent boy. Hisfeatures were coarse, his form un-gainly; and there was l)ut verylittle in his cliaracter, made visible, which was at-tractive. Wiien only thirteen years old he joined tiie volun-teers of Carolina against the British invasion. In1781, he and his brother Robert were captured andimprisoned for a time at Camden. A British officerordered him to brush his mud-spattered boots. I ama prisoner of war, not your servant, was the reply ofthe dauntless boy. The brute drew his sword, and aimed a desperateblow at the head of the helpless young prisoner..Andrew raised his hand, and thus received two fear-ful gashes,—one on tiie hand and

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