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Title: Contemporary American biography
Year: 1895 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York, Atlantic publishing and engraving co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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Pittsburgh, secured for him a similar position, bringing him in contact withbright, hard-working, ambitious boys in the same condition of life—all of whom have sincemade an honorable record—and inciting him to extra exertions to keep pace with them. Hewas only twelve years old, and even at this early age seemed to have attracted the attention(with others) of Mr. James D. Reid, the pioneer manager and superintendent of telegraphlines in this country, to whom sa many boys are indebted for inspiration, help, and advice, andwho felt warranted in saying in his work on The History of the Telegraph in America, thefollowing: In Pittsburgh were five messenger boys who merit special record. Each of them hasmade a record of his own . . . Robert Pitcairn; he bore his character in his face. Gentle,steady, prompt, true. The same sturdy determination to advance which had characterized him when he employedhis evenings leisure in study at the night school now set Robert to work on the study of the
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