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Links| Miles Tobey Granger, son of James L. Granger and Abigail
Tobey, was born August 12th, 1817, in New Marlborough, Berkshire
County, Massachusetts, a town but little north of the
Connecticut line. From his earliest youth he had his own way to
make, and the story of his fight for an education, told in the
history of Litchfield County, is illustrative of the times as
well as of the man. He used to say: "I never had but one dollar
in my life except what I earned by hard work. My father once
gave me a silver dollar - my whole inheritance and patrimony."
We condense the following from the biographical sketch in
question: At the age of ten he began to work in a woolen mill at
twelve and a half cents a day. After two years thus employed, he
hired out to a Norfolk farmer at twenty-five cents a day, and
continued to work for various farmers until he was eighteen. He
then entered the office of Dr. Benjamin Welch of Norfolk, and
began "reading up" to qualify