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Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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pure, Democratic type—that he is beyondall question. HENRY G. DAVIS, DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATEFOR VICE-PRESIDENT. BY CHARLES S. ALBERT. THE career of Henry Gassaway Davis, frombrakeman to multimillionaire, and fromlegislative delegate to Vice-Presidential nomineeof the Democratic party, enters the domains ofbusiness, statesmanship, politics, and philan-thropy. It covers the utmost biblical limit allottedto human activity. It exemplifies the doctrinethat energy may be substituted for education andfamily advantages ; that opportunity is better than inheritance ; and that the degree of successattained is regulated by personal exertion. Therecital of his development, acquisition of wealth,and great service to the public, with the climax ofprominence that has now come to him, is equaledby the history of few self-made men. Mr. Davis was born in the little village ofWoodstock, Md., a few miles from Baltimore,November 16, 1823. In the event of his elec 172 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY REVIEW OF REVIEWS.
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HON. HENRY GASSAWAY DAVIS, OF WEST VIRGINIA. tion as Vice-President, he will be at that timeeight days under eighty-one years old. He coniesof Scotch-Welsh stock. His father was CalebDavis, and his mother, before marriage, wasLouisa Brown. His mothers ancestors servedin the Revolutionary army. His lather was asoldier in the War of 1812, after which he re-tired as a successful merchant, and lived on afarm in Howard County, Maryland. lb; foundedthe village of Woodstock, took contracts forrailroad-construction, lost his fortune, and soonafter died, leaving a widow with four sons and adaughter. Henry at once became a bread-win-ner, depriving himself of educational advantagesin favor of a younger brother, contenting him-self with the meager mental training of a coun- try school, and beginning work on the farm offormer Governor Howard. The boy was willing,active, and intelligent. When nineteen yearsold, he obtained a position as freight brakemanon the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, which ha

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