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 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF "BILL NYE“

Edgar Wilson Nye was born in Maine in 1852, August 25, but at two years of
age he took his parents by the hand and telling them that Pisoataquis County was
no place for them, he boldly struck out for St. Croix County. Wisconsin, where
the hardy young pioneer soon made a home for his parents. The first year he '
drove the Indians out of the St. Croix Valley and suggested to the Northwestern
Railroad that it would be a good idea to build to St. Paul as soon as the company
could get a grant which would pay them two or three times the cost of construc—
tion. The following year he adopted trousers and made $175 from the sale of
wolf scalps. He also cleared ‘27 acres of land, and raised some watermelons.

He is the father of several very beautiful children by his first wife. who is still
living. She is a Chicago girl. and loves her husband far more than he deserves.
He is pleasant to the outside world. but a perfect brute in his home. He early
learned that in order to win the love of his wife he should be erratic and kick the
stove over the children when he came home. He therefore asserts himself in this
way, and the family respect him. being awed by his greatness and gentle bar-
barism. He eat-s plain food with both hands, conversing all the time pleasantly
with anyone who may be Visiting at the house. If his children do not behave, he
kicks them from beneath the table till they roar with pain, as he chats on with
the guests with a bright and ever flowing stream of hon mots which please and de-
light those who visit him to that degree that they almost forget that they have had
hardly anything to eat.

In conclusion, )Ir Nye is in every respect a lovely charaeter. He feared that
injustice might be done him, however. in this biographical sketch, so he has
written it himselfi