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Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2, Chapter 58: beginning of Howard University (search)
went to the house of the owner of the estate, Mr. John A. Smith; it was situated just beyond the present locatalmost hidden by a small grove of trees. We found Mr. Smith, with his wife and two or three members of his family. As we sat together, I tried to get Mr. Smith to promise a third of his farm. He claimed to have 150 acre had purchased a small lot nearer the city of this Mr. Smith, with an old dance house on it, to use it for educents if we could now make a favorable bargain with Mr. Smith. But he insisted on selling the whole at one thouime enough of such a property could be sold to pay Mr. Smith's price, and still leave us a reasonable portion aur use. I, too, felt sure of it. Suddenly, I said: Mr. Smith, what terms will you give us on the whole tract ich required negotiation and settlement. At last, Mr. Smith deducted on this account two thousand dollars ($2,easurer showed that the first amount to be paid to Mr. Smith was twenty thousand dollars ($20,000). To meet tha