Childhood
Wayne was born on January 1, 1745, in a log cabin on his family's Waynesborough estate, in Paoli, Pennsylvania. His father, Isaac Wayne, had emigrated from Ireland, and was part of a Protestant Anglo-Irish family. Anthony was educated at the College of Philadelphia (now the University of Pennsylvania), and entered the surveying profession.
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“When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss. It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together.”
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