"Granite state" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... daughter of the "Granite State," who can certainly take front rank among business women, is Kate Sanborn, the beloved president ...
— Memories and Anecdotes • Kate Sanborn
... removed to the west side of the river, and thence to Brooklyn, where he built him one of the first houses erected on that side, on top of the hill. Hard knocks upon the anvil could barely enable him to support his family, so the boy, at the age of nine, was sent to the Granite State, where for ten years he enjoyed, during the Winter months, the advantages of a New England district school, and worked and delved among the rocks upon a farm the remainder of the year. At the age of nineteen, with a freedom suit of satinet, and barely money enough ...
— Cleveland Past and Present - Its Representative Men, etc. • Maurice Joblin |
