Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Memorial of John Allan
John Allan was born in the parish of Kilburnie, Ayreshire, Scotland, on the 26th of February, 1777. His father was a tenant farmer of the district, and the family had occupied the acres from which he gained his sub sistence for more than a century. They preserved the industry and virtues which have ever marked the bet ter classes of the Scottish cultivators of the soil among which, we may be sure, a proper attention to intellectual discipline was not neglected. John Allan reaped the benefit of these home in?uences in the promotion of a manly character, while he received a sound elementary education, including instruction in Latin at a neigh boring grammar school. He was always in pursuit of knowledge, and the incident is remembered in his family of his devoting the small savings from his pocket allowance, his sugar money, in his child hood, to subscription to a newspaper.
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