Entering Beloit Academy in 1865, our subject was there graduated the following year, and in the fall of 1866 entered Beloit college and pursued the regular classical course till the beginning of his junior year, in the fall of 1868, when he left college to become the western representative of a large New York manufacturing company with headquarters in Chicago; three years later he went to New York, and from the main office of the company, traveled through the principal cities west of Ohio. Mr.