While in Massachusetts he was influenced by the abolitionist Rev. Thomas Wentworth Higginson to join the Massachusetts Emigrant Aid Company and take a part in the struggle known as Bleeding Kansas.
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At the age of eighteen years he began learning the carpenter's trade in Framingham, and after four years of service went to Slatersville, Rhode Island, where he continued in that occupation.
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