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Father Winter
Asa Winter was born in Connecticut in the second year of the war of the Revolution. His father came from England, but stood by his adopted country, and is believed to have taken part in the war. Of his history, however, Mrs. Hood is able to give but little information. He must have died not long after the war, in moderate circumstances, as we find Asa, when not more than fourteen or fifteen years of age, in Middlebury, Vermont, rich only in energy and character, "paddling his own canoe." There is many a young man who might study his history with profit. Without resources, save what his own hands could create;
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