From Farm House
to the White House
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Frontispiece
 LOG CABIN TO WHITE HOUSE SERIES
From Farm House
to the White House
THE LIFE OF
GEORGE WASHINGTONHIS BOYHOOD, YOUTH, MANHOOD, PUBLICAND PRIVATE LIFE AND SERVICES
By William M. Thayer
Author of "From Log Cabin to White House,""From Pioneer Home to White House,""From Tannery to White House,""From Boyhood to Manhood," etc., etc.
 ILLUSTRATED
NEW YORK
HURST & COMPANY
PUBLISHERS
 Log Cabin to White House Series.
UNIFORM WITH THIS VOLUME.BY WILLIAM M. THAYER:
From Boyhood to Manhood—Life of Benjamin Franklin.
From Farm House to White House—Life of George Washington.
From Log Cabin to White House—Life of James A. Garfield,with eulogy by Hon. James G. Blaine.
From Pioneer Home to White House—Life of Abraham Lincoln,with eulogy by Hon. Geo. Bancroft.
From Tannery to White House—Life of Ulysses S. Grant.
 By Edward S. Ellis:
From Ranch to White House—Life of Theodore Roosevelt.
Price Post-Paid, 75¢. each, or $4.50 for the set.
HURST & COMPANY
Publishers,New York.
Copyright, 1890, By JAMES H. EARLE.
To

ALL WHO

HONOR TRUE MANHOOD,

This Volume,

REPRESENTING THE ELEMENTS OF SUCCESS,

From Boyhood to Manhood

IN THE

Career and Noble Character

OF

GEORGE WASHINGTON,

"THE FATHER OF HIS COUNTRY,"

Is Sincerely and Affectionately Dedicated.
PREFACE.
Every American, old or young, should become familiar with the life ofWashington; it will confirm their patriotism and strengthen theirloyalty. Such a character will become an inspiration to them, elicitingnobler aims, and impelling to nobler deeds.
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Washington himself wrote to his step-son, who was in college:
"You are now extending into that stage of life when good or bad habitsare formed; when the mind will be turned to things useful andpraiseworthy or to dissipation and vice. Fix on which ever it may, itwill stick by you; for you know it has been said, and truly, 'The waythe twig is bent the tree's inclined.' This, in a strong point of view,shows the propriety of letting your inexperience be directed by matureradvice, and in placing guard upon the avenues which lead to idleness andvice. The latt                        
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