Excerpt from The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, 1903, Vol. 34: Devoted to the Interests of American Genealogy and Biography When Egbert was but seven years of age Judge Viele died suddenly of apoplexy while walking in his garden, and the family moved to Lansingburg. This, for reasons of economy in part, and in part to be nearer Schaghticoke where the barns were over dowin Here every winter with the first snow came sleighs heape high with fire wood, or loaded deep with apples, pumpkins and potatoes, and the road to the homestead, distant a Sabbath Day's journey, soon grew familiar to the sturdy boy. Egbert passed all of his vacations at the old brick mansion or roaming over its thousand acres of field and forest, and in spite of a New England aunt who held the small red school-house to have been built to keep little fingers out of mischief, he always looked back to the days at Schaghticoke as among the happiest of his life. Sometimes the journey there was made behind his uncle's horses but more often on foot, with an occasional 'lift from some good natured teamster, and when the days were short a lodging over night at the Checkered Shed Tavern, where there were interest ing stories to be overheard of busy far oe places. These travel lers' tales awakened ia the listener a resolution to be one day part of that strange outer world of action, and when he was scarcely sixteen he made his first appearance in public life. He had always been a leader among his playmates, and when in 1841 the temperance agitation grew into a national movement he was elected President of the State Youth's Temperance Society, and established a newspaper in the interest of the cause. This jour nal, called the 'enterprise', had for its motto The tree which does not blossom in the Spring will not bear fruit in Autumn. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.