The Life or Biography of Silas Felton Written by Himself.

Silas Felton, son of a farming family in Marlborough, Massachusetts, an ordinary American in a small New England town, became a successful schoolmaster, storekeeper, and public official in his home town. Much influenced by his reading of Benjamin Franklin's 'Autobiography,' he wrote a 50-page account of his early career, covering the years from 1776 to 1802. In it he tells much of his own intellectual development, of educational thought and practice of the times, of business activity, and of rural life in general.