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Having so long applied himself to painting -- the business of all others the most calculated to disqualify a man for everything else -- but few men would have had the courage to enter so different a field, but Mr. Wade seemed equal to the task, and with appropriate courage and renewed energy grappled with the difficulties and mystories of the telegraph business, then entirely new, having no books or rules to refer to, and without the experience of others to guide him, and having, as it were, to climb a ladder, every round of which had to be invented as he progressed.

Cleveland Past and Present Its Representative Men Maurice [Unknown role] Joblin