sentences:  Though his family were of lowly circumstances, he was raised in a well disciplined, and strictly religious environment.Leaving school at the age of 11, he worked a short while as clerk in a rope factory, then serving in a grocers shop, and thirdly as a sort of apprentice to a lithographer.At 13 he became an apprentice to a druggist, also taking lessons in Latin, and learning Pitman's Shorthand.