gridley in A Sentence

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    Samuel Gridley Howe.

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    They were working and hunting walruses for Richard Gridley.

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    (If Gridley had won, Dr. Herrick would have marched to Dixie).

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    Easy-going and good-looking, Gridley was successful as a shopkeeper and popular in town.

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    Gridley stood up and asked who would make the first bid for the National Sanitary Flour Sack.

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    After this successful auction, Gridley traveled to other wealthy mining areas, and then throughout California(including Sacramento and San Francisco).

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    As neither Mayor Herrick nor Gridley wanted the flour, it was suggested that they auction it off and send the proceeds to the U. S.

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    Leaving Missouri for greater adventure out west as a teenager, Gridley served in the Mexican War(1846-1848) and later joined the great California Gold Rush in 1852.

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    The story of the flour bag auction spread and other towns requested that Gridley come, with Virginia City being the first to send him a telegram stating,“Fetch along your flour sack!”!

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    By 1837, many blind people had been successfully educated and one of the instructors there, Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe, learned of Laura Bridgman's condition through an account written by the head of the medical department at Dartmouth College, Dr. Mussey.

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    Gridley lost, and so, carrying the 50-pound flour sack decorated with red, white and blue ribbons and accompanied by his teenage son(who was carrying an American flag) and a marching band, Gridley marched from Austin to Clinton while the band played John Brown's Body.

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