Word: surveyor
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...them very rare), some twenty other Lincoln pictures, and an account, abounding in vivid personal details, of Lincoln's misfortunes as a country merchant; of his entrance into the legislature, and the beginning of his acquaintance with Douglas; of his work as a village postmaster and a deputy county surveyor; of his study of Shakespeare and Burnes and a copy of Blackstone found by chance in a barrel of refuse; and of his romantic courtship of Ann Rutledge, and his affliction at her death shortly before the time appointed for their marriage...
...thwarted by the obstacles which the over cautious or suspicious thrust before us. The man with a measuring line comes to us and lays down in accurate terms all the mountainous obstacles which lie in our path. The twelve disciples were sent out to convert the world; the same surveyor presented to them a careful estimate of the great indifference of the human race towards religion, the pagan armies of the mighty Roman Empire which must be overcome, but the little band of twelve did what they could from year to year until gradually the mountains crumbled away...
Fifteen of the men are in business, three others are traveling, and nine are doing nothing. Only one member of the class has entered journalism. Of the remaining four, one is an electrician, one a chemist, one a surveyor, and one is in an architect's office...