Youth
Robert Ketcham was born in Tioga County, Pennsylvania, USA to Charles O. and Sarah Bullock Ketcham, active members of the local Methodist Church. Charles was a small farmer and milkman. Sarah Ketcham died when Robert was seven, and his father married a widow, Louise Elliot. Because Louise was a Baptist, the family then joined the Baptist church. When Robert was eleven, the family moved a bit more than twenty miles west to Galeton, Pennsylvania
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Famous quotes containing the word youth:
“Can delight
Chained in night
The virgins of youth and morning bear?”
—William Blake (1757–1827)
“Better to endure hardship in youth than poverty in old age.”
—Chinese proverb.