The historical glories of Dumfries. the fame of her Douglasses. Bruces. Kirkpatricks. and also of Robert Burns. who resided there for a few years. impressed him and stimulated his energies and aroused his ambition for the accomplishment of the wonderful results which crowned his efforts in afteryears. When he was sixteen years of age he bade farewell to bonny Scotland and joined his father. who had emigrated to America in 1825 and who became a prosperous farmer in Wyoming County. New York. A few years proved to young Beck that farming was not his vocation and he determined to devote himself to intellectual efforts.
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