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He put himself through school and became a teacher after the civil war. In 1872 he walked 500 miles to Hampton Normal Agricultural Institute in Virginia and supported himself with odd jobs. He convinced the school administration to let him attend the school and took a job as a janitor to pay for his tuition. In his time there were no high schools.

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