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Mother was not content to bring up her children in the Chicago of that day and, as my Father's purchases took him twice or more a year to New York where Mother and the boys most frequently accompanied him, spending often the summer months on the farm at Oxford, it became her desire to go back to the East and for Father to retire from his business, from which, as she thought he had now made enough, and could devote himself to the careful rearing of his little family of those sons. To this end I remember once we visited Newburg to inspect a residence that was for sale, but which plan was very suddenly put an end to my confusion in the business at home through the [[inducntion?]] of those in charge of the office in Chicago. I have often  thought