Pt barnum autobiography in five short

Rodney Ohebsion

I was born in the town of Bethel, in the State of Connecticut, July 5, 1810.

My father, Philo Barnmn, was the son of Ephraim Barnum, of Bethel, who was a captain in the revolutionary war.

This book was originally published prior to , and represents a reproduction of an important historical work, maintaining the same format as the original.

Phineas Taylor Barnum (July 5, – April 7, ) was an American showman, businessman, and politician remembered for promoting celebrated hoaxes and.

This is the story of Phineas Taylor Barnum (July 5, – April 7, ), the Greatest Showman, who had one of the most picturesque and romantic careers in.

This is the story of PT Barnum, the world-renowned showman, written by the man himself.

Barnum was 15 years old when his father died, and the support of his mother and his five sisters and brothers fell largely upon his shoulders.

My father was a tailor, a farmer, and sometimes a tavern-keeper, and my advantages and disadvantages were such as fall to the general run of farmers' boys. I drove cows to and from the pasture, shelled corn, weeded the garden; as I grew larger I rode horse for ploughing, turned and raked hay; in due tune I handled the shovel and the hoe, and when I could do so I went to school.

I was six years old when I began to go to school.

I was a willing, and, I think, a pretty apt scholar. In arithmetic I was unusually ready and accurate, and I remember, at the age of ten years, being called out of bed one night by my teacher, who had wagered with a neighbor that I could calculate the correct number of feet in a load of wood in five minutes.

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