Farming Skills Helped Mold a President
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Mr.
Truman left
a Kansas
City bank job and went to Grandview in the summer
of 1906 when his father asked him to help manage the farm belonging to his
widowed grandmother, Louisa Young. His parents had moved from Clinton,
Mo.,
to the farm a year earlier to help Grandmother Young.
Mr.
Truman was 22 then, and apparently had no regrets about
leaving the city for the life of a farmer. He showed by his actions he was
proud of the
vocation; he considered tilling the land a completely honorable calling.
Until his father, John Truman, died in 1914, Mr. Truman had his advice and
assistance. But after that, he shouldered full responsibility for the farm
operation until he left for war in 1917. Mr. Truman's brother, Vivian, came back to the farm, too, but returned to a bank job the next year. After a brief return to the farm, he moved away in 1911 when he married. Uncle Harrison Young had left the farm for an easier life in the city. | John Truman, Harry's father
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