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Jared Sparks was born May 10, 1789, in Willington, Connecticut. He was by trade a carpenter, but, being eager of education, he put himself under the tuition of the Reverend Hubbell Loomis, the minister of Willington, and as payment for tuition shingled the minister's barn. Mr. Loomis subsequently became the first president of Shurtleff College in Alton, Illinois, and to his helpfulness Mr. Sparks always held himself much indebted.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=-e5JAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA203 Heralds of a Liberal Faith, Volume 2]</ref>

Jared Sparks was born May 10, 1789, in Willington, Connecticut. He was by trade a carpenter, but, being eager of education, he put himself under the tuition of the Reverend Hubbell Loomis, the minister of Willington, and as payment for tuition shingled the minister's barn. Mr. Loomis subsequently became the first president of Shurtleff College in Alton, Illinois, and to his helpfulness Mr. Sparks always held himself much indebted.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=-e5JAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA203 Heralds of a Liberal Faith, Volume 2]</ref>

A neighboring minister, the Reverend Abiel Abbot, of Coventry, Connnecticut, making a morning call on Mr. Loomis, was told of the remarkable young carpenter then at work on the barn. Mr. Abbot saw at once that the carpenter had the making of a scholar, and wrote to his cousin and brother-in-law, Dr. Benjamin Abbot, master of Phillips Exeter Academy, to bespeak for Sparks a place on the beneficiary list of the academy. The application was successful, and at the beginning of the next term Sparks made his appearance at Exeter, having walked the entire distance from Willington, one hundred and twenty miles, in four days. His worldly goods, packed in a small trunk, were carried to Exeter by Mr. Abbot appended to the axle of his chaise.

A neighboring minister, the Reverend Abiel Abbot, of Coventry, Connecticut, making a morning call on Mr. Loomis, was told of the remarkable young carpenter then at work on the barn. Mr. Abbot saw at once that the carpenter had the making of a scholar, and wrote to his cousin and brother-in-law, Dr. Benjamin Abbot, master of Phillips Exeter Academy, to bespeak for Sparks a place on the beneficiary list of the academy. The application was successful, and at the beginning of the next term Sparks made his appearance at Exeter, having walked the entire distance from Willington, one hundred and twenty miles, in four days. His worldly goods, packed in a small trunk, were carried to Exeter by Mr. Abbot appended to the axle of his chaise.

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