Excerpt from Ten Times One Is Ten: The Possible Reformation
The call for a cheap edition of this little book gives me an opportunity to answer questions which have been often put to me in correspondence.
Harry Wadsworth is described, in a faithful effort to represent to those who did not know him, Frederic William Greenleaf, who died at an early age, but after he had attracted to himself a circle of real friends much larger than is described here around Harry Wadsworth.
Frederic William Greenleaf was born in Williamsburg, in Maine. He died in Boston, Massachusetts. At the age of twenty-one he left Williamsburg for Bangor; and I think he once told me that he served as a fireman on the first locomotive that ran from Bangor to Old Town. But he took such work as this, only because he chose to do something rather than nothing. He was well-educated, with an inherited gift for engineering and the mathematics, which naturally brought him into connection with the newly created railroad interests of New England. He was soon after engaged on the Boston and Worcester Railroad as a clerk in the freighting department. I remember he used to say, that with his own hands he switched off, upon the Western Railway at Worcester, the first car of freight which passed westward upon it, - one four-wheeled car, which was the precursor of the countless miles of freight-trains which now pass over that highway. When I first knew him, he was at the head of the freight department in Worcester.
Most of the little stories told of Harry Wadsworth, in this book, are true of Frederic William Greenleaf. The practical influence of his spirited and spiritual life on all sorts of people is rendered here only too inadequately.
It was long after his death, that, with the memory of that extending influence in my mind, I suggested to the late Dr. Wayland the plan of this little book. It struck his fancy favorably, and he often asked me to try to work it out.
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