Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau lived from 1817 to 1862 in the northeastern United States. His older sister and brother, who were both schoolteachers, saved enough money for his college education to send him to Harvard. That is also the college his grandfather went to many years earlier.
At Harvard, he studied English, mathematics, history, and mental, natural, and intellectual philosophy. Thoreau enhanced his education by choosing to take foreign languages, such as French, Italian, German, and Spanish (Withrell). He graduated from Harvard University in 1837 and started keeping a journal, which was later published, depicting his seriousness, determination, and elevation of moral values (Jacobus 141).
His family business was pencil making. He used his education from Harvard to improve the engineering that went to manufacturing pencils. His improved process made his families pencils equal to those manufactured by the previously superior Farber Company from Germany. Thoreau......
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