~ Adulthood ~
In 1861 he
applied to teach the Pigeon Roost, but was refused on the ground
of youth and inexperience. He took this to heart and left Pigeon
roost as a home forever, and went to Huntington, Indiana.
There he got a school and taught with very great success two
winters, astonishing his patrons by using the word and object
methods. Then he sent for his mother and the rest of the family.
In the winter of 1863-64 he removed to St. Louis, where he
remained four years, studying and writing for the press and
finding employment as book-keeper in the house of John J. Daly
& Co. while there, he met for the first time Gen. Sheridan,
and gave a brilliant description to the Huntington Democrat
of a grand ovation to that officer; later he met Sheridan in
Europe.
