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CHAPTER III BOYHOOD AND YOUTH John Meigs; His Birth in 1852, and
Boyhood?Lafayette College in the Mid-Nineteenth Century?John Meigs'
Entrance as a Student?College Life, and
Friendships?Reminiscences?His Summons to the Work of the School. ON
August 3ist, 1852, in the corner room of the old stone mansion on
The Hill that looks out over the sloping lawn and over the town
towards the river, and the walls of which were to include
afterwards a part of his own study, John Meigs was born. It was
only one year before that the school had been established, and so
in the surroundings of the new institution, and as a boy within the
ranks of the other boys, he was to grow up. He was the fifth child
and the fourth son among eleven brothers and sisters. His
grandfather and grandmother on his mother's side, the Reverend
William Ripley Gould and Mrs. Gould, were living at The Hill.
Father Gould, as the boys affectionately called him, was
superintendent of the farm and grounds, and sometimes used to
preach also in the Presbyterian Church of the town. The little boy,
John, was the special favorite of his grandparents. Every morning
he used to gather up his clothes in a bundle in his arms, and go
from his mother's room, where he slept, into his grandparents' room
next door to dress. He was an alert and inquiring child, and one of
the recollections which have come down from those earlier years is
that when he would go into his grandparents' room he used to begin
to spell the names of the different articles of furniture and other
things in the room. " Bureau" baffled him for a long time, but
finally he got that too. He remembered very vividly in after years
the only time his grandfather punished him. He had called the
colored cook's little boy a "nigger," which so outraged Grandfather
Gould'...
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