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his religious belief, did not encourage me to become an artist & and opposed it entirely as I grew older.

By the time I was 15 I had 6 half-brothers & sisters all younger than myself.

They were my young companions. We were secluded from the world and never sent to any school, my father giving us our education.

In 1900 we moved to a farm in Rockland Co, N.Y. where my oldest brothers & I