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been told, on the Packet, which navigated the Illinois canal. At all events my awakenings in life were all associated with Rover and the big frame house on the South East corner of Adams St and Wabash Ave Chicago Ill - My mother used to recount how a few days after our settling there, some men came and planted a pole in the middle of the Avenue, in a mud hole, bearing this warning on a board: "No bottom". I can never forget how discordant to her sensitive and refined nature was this crass crudeness of Chicago in those early days. Of course, the great business possibilities were overwhelmingly fascinating to my father - He had begun with nothing save his intelligent energy. Inheritances I think in those day must have been rare. Our people came from sturdy stock and in the pedigree of the Beckwith's which was compiled by Paul Beckwith and published in

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