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HISTOEY OF DENTAL SUEGEEY 83
who received instruction in the rudiments of an Englisli education hy two
teachers. So meager was this education that Englisli grammar was not in-
eluded in the curi-iciilum.
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At the age of thirteen young Greenwood was apprenticed to his uncle at
Portland, Me., who was a cabinet maker. He remained with this uncle for
nearly two years when the troublous colonial times began. His uncle was a
lieutenant in one of the companies organized in the revolutionary war and.
as John Greenwood was (|uitc proficient on the flute as well as the fife, he
