George Washington: Farmer. Paul Leland Haworth
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Paul Leland Haworth
George Washington: Farmer
Being an Account of His Home Life and Agricultural Activities
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4064066133450
Table of Contents
VIRGINIA AGRICULTURE IN WASHINGTON'S DAY
A FARMER'S RECORDS AND OTHER PAPERS
AGRICULTURAL OPERATIONS AND EXPERIMENTS BEFORE THE REVOLUTION
THE HORTICULTURIST AND LANDSCAPE GARDENER
A CRITICAL VISITOR AT MOUNT VERNON
PREFACE
The story of George Washington's public career has been many times told in books of varying worth, but there is one important aspect of his private life that has never received the attention it deserves. The present book is an attempt to supply this deficiency.
I desire to acknowledge gratefully the assistance I have received from Messrs. Gaillard Hunt and John C. Fitzpatrick of the Library of Congress, Mr. Hubert B. Fuller lately of Washington and now of Cleveland, Colonel Harrison H. Dodge and other officials of the Mount Vernon Association, and from the work of Paul Leicester Ford, Worthington C. Ford and John M. Toner.
Above all, in common with my countrymen, I am indebted to heroic Ann Pamelia Cunningham, to whose devoted labor, despite ill health and manifold discouragements, the preservation of Mount Vernon is due. To her we should be grateful for a shrine that has not its counterpart in the world--a holy place that no man can visit without experiencing an uplift of heart and soul that makes him a better American.
PAUL LELAND HAWORTH.
CHAPTER
I. A MAN IN LOVE WITH THE SOIL. II. BUILDING AN ESTATE. III. VIRGINIA AGRICULTURE IN WASHINGTON'S DAY. IV.