Author: John Burroughs

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-12-14

Total Pages: 114

ISBN-13: 9780332778877

Excerpt from Sharp Eyes: And Other Papers John burroughs was born at Roxbury, New York, on April 3, 1837. His early education was received in the district school, and in the academies of the neigh boring villages. He remained in the country, working on the farm and teaching school at various places, until 1863, when he went to Washington, where he obtained employment in the government service. For some time he was chief of the Bureau of Organization in the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, and in 1871 visited England on business connected with that department. In 1873 he resigned his position, and became receiver of a bankrupt national bank. In 1885 he was appointed a special national bank exami ner. Subsequently he gave up active business and retired to his home near Esopus, on the Hudson River, in New York State, where he continues to reside. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.