Excerpt from Daughters of Genius, or World's Famous Women: A Series of Sketches of Women Who Have Won Distinction by Their Genius and Achievements of Authors, Artists, Actors, Rulers, or Within the Precents of Home In 1816, when she was born, her father was a West India merchant, of the firm of Topliff Cushman, who had a warehouse on Long Wharf In Boston. Her father, at the age of thirteen, was a poor orphan in Plymouth, Massachusetts, though a lineal descendant of Robert Cushman, one of the pilgrim fathers; a descendant, too, of other Cushmans, whose honored graves I have seen upon Burial Hill, in Plymouth. Her father walked to Boston (thirty miles distant) while he was still a boy, and there, by industry and good conduct, saved a capital upon which he entered into business Upon his own account, Which enabled him for many years to maintain his-family in comfort. -many a time Charlotte played the tomboy on Long Wharf, in' and, out of her father's store, climbing about vessels, and getting up on heaps of merchandise.' Once, iii jumping on board avessel, She fell into the water. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.