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At fourteen he entered Yale College, where from the first he was a good, faithful student. As his father was poor, Finley had to help himself along, and was able to do it by painting, on ivory, likenesses of his classmates and professors, for which he received from one dollar to five dollars each. In this way he made considerable money.
Letty's head felt quite giddy, and she was very faint, for her naughty father had gone off, and poor Letty had had no breakfast that morning. After turning a great many squares, Mrs. At one of these houses Mrs. Finley stopped, and Letty followed her up the steps, through the entry, and into the parlor.
An appeal to Monrovia for help led to the sending of a company of men and later to the incorporation of the colony in the Republic. Of the events of the period special interest attaches to the murder of I.F.C. Finley, Governor of Mississippi in Africa, to whose father, Rev. Robert Finley, the organization of the American Colonization Society had been very largely due.
"Gone!" he exclaimed, and stared at her in dismay. "Gone where?" "That's just it," said Miss Grover. "I wish I knew. I reckon we'd got into the habit of trusting her too much, but it seemed the only way. She wasn't in her room last night, but Ella Finley didn't find it out until this morning, and she ran over scared to death, to tell us about it." Involuntarily the rector reached for his hat.
After attaining this latter color, the plate resumes a light yellow tint, and continues to pass successively a second time, with very few exceptions, through all the shades above mentioned. I will here present some excellent remarks upon this subject by Mr. Finley.
From the day of the transfer, the natural resources of the great valley of the Mississippi began to be rapidly developed. The accompanying map will enable the reader more fully to understand the geography of the above narrative. Camp Life Beyond the Alleghanies. John Finley and his Adventures. Aspect of the Country. Boone's Private Character. His Love for the Wilderness. First view of Kentucky.
"Your letter of 2d instant, conveying the pleasing intelligence of your safe and very short passage and happy meeting with your affectionate parents at your own home, came safe to hand in due time.... And so Lucretia was expected and you intended to surprise her by your unlooked-for presence. "Finley, I am afraid you will be too happy.
I wish not to raise high expectations, but I think I shall succeed tolerably well." About this time Finley Morse and his brother Edwards had jointly devised and patented a new "flexible piston-pump," from which they hoped great things. Edwards, always more or less of a wag, proposed to call it "Morse's Patent Metallic Double-headed Ocean-Drinker and Deluge-Spouter Valve Pump-Boxes."
In the year 1865 Professor Samuel Finley Breese Morse, to whom the world is indebted for the application of the principles of electro-magnetism to telegraphy, gave the sum of ten thousand dollars to Union Theological Seminary to found a lectureship in memory of his father, the Rev. Jedediah Morse, D.D., theologian, geographer, and gazetteer.
But it did turn, for an excellent portrait of Dr. Finley, one of the best ever painted by Morse, aroused the enthusiasm of the Charlestonians, and orders began to pour in, so that in a few weeks he was engaged to paint one hundred and fifty portraits at sixty dollars each. Quite an advance over the meagre fifteen dollars he had received in New England.
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