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ANDREW JACKSON.

The fa-ther of our sev-enth Pres-i-dent was a poor man who came from the north of Ire-land. His son, An-drew Jack-son, was born in North Car-o-li-na, March 15, 1767. The fa-ther died a few days ere his child saw the light.

The moth-er took her young babe from the poor log hut and went with him, in the spring of 1767, to the home of kin in South Car-o-li-na, where he might not starve.

It is said that what the boy knew of books he got from the "Old Field School," and that it was naught more than the "Three R's."

When but e-lev-en years old, hard war times came, and hordes of Brit-ish troops were in South Car-o-li-na. Food