Farmer
In 1850, at 30 years old, Manly returned to Santa Clara Valley and bought 250 acres (1.0 km2) south of San Jose, paying 16 dollars an acre, 4,000 dollars in all. He planted a farm. In 1862, at the age of 42 years, Manly married Mary Jane Woods of Lodi, California.
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Famous quotes containing the word farmer:
“A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.”
—E.B. (Elwyn Brooks)
“One farmer says to me, “You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make bones with;” and so he religiously devotes a part of his day to supplying his system with the raw material of bones; walking all the while he talks behind his oxen, which, with vegetable-made bones, jerk him and his lumbering plow along in spite of every obstacle.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)