Excerpt from Poems It was also suggested that I should prepare a brief Memoir, a task which I undertook with much trepidation, knowing how imperfectly I should be able to perform it. John Fullerton was born on the 11th September, 1836, in the then village of Woodside, now included in the City of Aberdeen. His parents were respectable people, much esteemed amongst the villagers. The father was one of those mechanical geniuses who quietly (perhaps too quietly for themselves) do the day's work. He both invented and perfected not a few useful agricultural implements. The mother, amidst the daily cares of a large family, consisting of eight sons and two daughters (of whom Mr Fullerton was the first born), found time to read with interest and profit such books of history, travel, poetry, and fiction as she could lay her hands on. She was, besides, a sweet singer of those olden ballads which, some sixty years ago, were sung or recited at almost every Scottish fireside. In his tenth year, John Fullerton voluntarily left school. He found work in an extensive cotton mill and, during the period of his employment there, he regularly attended an evening school in his native village. Here he seems to have made considerable progress in the study of English, as some time afterwards, he succeeded in carrying off the prize in that subject, as a student in the Mechanics' Institute, Aberdeen. His subsequent career was a busy and full-handed one-marked, nevertheless, by a distinct upward tendency. Superior capacity for work and admirable application of talent characterised his business relations through out his whole career. 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.