Excerpt from Addresses by William Nutting, M.A., And David Hubbard Nutting, M.D William Nutting was born in Groton, Mass., during the Revolutionary War, October 30, 1779. He worked on his father's farm till the age of twenty-one, then for about three years as a carpenter and joiner; when, his physical constitution having been broken by sickness, he turned his attention to the acquisition of a liberal education. His mental powers being unimpaired, and naturally of remarkable vigor, his progress in study was such that, after close application for a year and a half at Groton Academy, he joined the same class at Dartmouth College which had entered Freshmen at the time he commenced his preparation. 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.