Excerpt from Heroes and Incidents of the Mexican War
The author of this work is a well known and highly respected citizen of Latrobe, Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania. He is a retired farmer, having formerly owned and occupied a valuable tract of land near Beatty, some three miles from Latrobe, but which he sold some time ago and purchased a fine residence in Latrobe.
The allotted life of man is "three score years and ten," or seventy years, but the writer of this work has passed that period and has arrived at the ripe old age of eighty-one years, and although he is an octogenarian, his eye is still bright, his mind clear, while his step yet retains much of the elasticity of youth, in fact, the burden of eighty-one years rests lightly upon his shoulders, and is a better man physically, than many who are but half his age. The excellent health and digestion he enjoys is largely attributable to a temperate life, having never contracted bad habits of any kind. He has lived a life of peace with his fellow men, and having wrought faithfully during his earlier and later manhood, he can now, in the sunset of life, enjoy the reward of his labors.
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