Explore "Struggles and Triumphs" by P.T. Barnum on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
Pleasure Visit to Philadelphia -- Living in Grand Style -- The Bottom of the Pile -- Borrowing Money -- My Marriage -- Return to Bethel -- Early Marriages -- More Practical Joking -- Second Appearance as Counsel -- Going to Housekeeping -- Selling Books at Auction -- The "Yellow Store" -- A New Field -- "The Herald of Freedom" -- My Editorial Career -- Libel Suits -- Fined and Imprisoned -- Life in the Danbury Jail -- Celebration of My Liberation -- Poor Business and Bad Debts -- Removal to New York -- Seeking My Fortune -- "Wants," in the "Sun" -- Wm. Niblo -- Keeping a Boardinghouse -- A Whole Shirt on My Back.
During this season I made arrangements with Mr. Samuel Sherwood, of Bridgeport, to go on an exploring expedition to Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, where we understood there was a fine opening for a lottery office and where we meant to try our fortunes, provided the prospects should equal our expectations. We went to New York where I had an interview with Mr. Dudley S. Gregory, the principal business man of Messrs. Yates and McIntyre, who dissuaded me from going to Pittsburg, and offered me the entire lottery agency for the State of Tennessee, if I would go to Nashville and open an office. The offer was tempting, but the distance was too far from a certain tailoress in Bethel.