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Road to Liberty: James Smith | The White House Founders Museum | PragerU
/in EDUCATION, PRAGERU/by PragerUJames Smith was born in Ireland around 1719. His family fled the landlords of the Old World for the freedom of Pennsylvania around 1727, settling as farmers on the Susquehanna in Chester County. Receiving a classical education from a local minister, Smith continued his studies in classics, adding land surveying, at the Philadelphia Academy, now […]
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/in EDUCATION, PRAGERU/by PragerURoad to Liberty: Lewis Morris | The White House Founders Museum | PragerU
/in EDUCATION, PRAGERU/by PragerUBorn in Westchester County, New York, Lewis Morris attended Yale College. He married Mary Walton and they had ten children together. As the eldest son, Morris acquired his father’s estate at Morrisania, New York. Having acquired properties in New York and New Jersey, Morris grew increasingly frustrated with British control over trade policies in the […]
Road to Liberty: Matthew Thornton | The White House Founders Museum | PragerU
/in EDUCATION, PRAGERU/by PragerUMatthew Thornton was born in Ireland in 1714 and moved to what would become Maine as a child. At age eight, his family fled an Indian attack, escaping by canoe to Casco Bay, and later settled in Worcester, Massachusetts. Thornton received a classical education at Worcester Academy, studied medicine, and began a successful practice in […]
