True stories of great American men : for young Americans (1898)
Brooks, Elbridge Streeter, 1846-1902 · Chicago ; Philadelphia ; Toronto : J.C. Winston · leaf 202
landers and lived in Holland along the Zuyder Zee, whichyou know is an arm of the North Sea, running into the land.Many of them were, by trade, millers. His great-grandfather THOMAS A. EDISON 203 was born in Amsterdam, and when he was a young man movedto America, and during the Revolutionary War… … THE BIRTHPLACE OF THOMAS A. EDISON, AT MiLAN. OHIO. educated there for a teacher, and it was there that SamuelEdison, Thomas father, met and married her. So you seeThomas Edison is part Dutchman and part Scotchman, andthis perhaps, accounts for his wonderful ability to work so longand so well and…
