Excerpt from Gaston Griffin, a Country BankerCoal Co.at one dollar and twenty five cents per day, having been a hard-working, industrious man from his youth up, and well knowing the value of a dollar, had at the time of Gaston's birth succeeded in saving money enough to engage in the cattle' business, going through the western part of Pennsylvania and Ohio, there buying his stock and then driving them on foot to New York city markets to sell them. He continued in the cattle business un.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.