Excerpt from Eleanor Boies Tileston, (1886-1912) She was a very interesting and original child, with an alert and vigorous mind. When she was four years of age, she had a great dasire to learn to read, and acquired the power rapidly and easily. She went to a small school on Milton Hill in September, 1890, and to Milton Academy from 1893 to February, 1898. Her father died early in that year, and it was a very great sorrow to her, young as she was. On October 8, 1898. 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.