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-tion. But I have said enough to show from where the little aesthetic spark which was to lead my destiny came from.  In spite of all the depressing influences of Chicago, of its raw half frontier life, my Father, with his taste for good books and my sensitive Mother with her music and her refinement gave to our home an atmosphere which saved us from the murk of materialism from which I hope, our great west is beginning to emerge.
My Father had prospered in business and the large brick store 123 & 125 South Water St [a print of this store will be found in my scrap book 1st volume] where C.H. Beckwith Wholesale Grocer was emblazoned over both the door on South Water and Dearborn St.  My artistic proclivities were utilized when I went occasionally to the store in "marking goods" for the cases of merchandise and barrels of sugar were sent over half the West. My

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On the opposite page this was noted: a print of this store will be found in X my scrap book 1st volume