Links of Friendship (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Links of FriendshipJoseph seamon cotter was born in Nelson County, Kentucky, in 1861, but has spent practically all his life in Louisville. He had the scantiest Opportunity for schooling in childhood, though he could read before he was four years old. He was put to work early, and from his eighth to his twenty-fourth year earned his living by the roughest and hardest labor, first in a brick-yard, then in a distillery, and finally as_a teamster. At twenty-two his schol arship was so limited that When he entered the first one of Louis ville's night schools for colored pupils, he had to begin in the primary department. His industry and capacity were so great that at the end of two sessions of five months each he began to teach. He has' persevered in this calling, educating him'self while at work, and is now the Principal of the Colored Ward School. At Eighth and Kentucky streets. The man whose advice and encouragement at the beginning chie¿y enabled him to accomplish this was Prof.W. T. Peyton, a well-known colored educator of this city, Whom he regards as his greatest benefactor.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.