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2011 Aug 09
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Apparently Leon's grandfather
Ulysse Huguenin was not
much of a farmer. Leon told me a story about Ulysse one day hitching
up a team of horses to do some plowing. He hitched up the team, and
took the horses, the plow and himself to the field to till the soil.
He set the plow into the ground and plowed one length of the field. But
then, he became seriously perplexed. He couldn't figure out how to get the horses
and the plow turned around to plow back in the other direction. He
had met his farming Waterloo. He unhitched the horses, took them back
to the barn, and never plowed again. Leon doesn't vouch for the
accuracy of this story, but we agreed that it is a fine story!
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The only evidence that I have that Ulysse ever claimed to be a farmer is his occupation on the
1880 US Census. (1) Upon immigration in 1878, he was a clerk (2), and his granddaughter Jane Good tells of his making house to house deliveries of kerosene with a horse-drawn wagon. (3) I guess
that kerosene wagon was easier to get turned around than the plow. -- dg 2004 Mar 24.
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