that vanessa cutler was a doctor of law and medicine and divinity all three at once and practiced all three. probably almost certainly the leading american botanist of his day, astronomer, languages and then in the good life and then with those i have come to knowo . and then to have too much going on back home in massachusetts which is just north of boston and his church is still there and superb condition to come to ohio is still there. and his son came out here with his wife and four children. to be young and hopeful. and the rocky ground in an england coming down the ohio river to have the children died ofer disease. on the banks of the river. they arrive here mrs. cutler stepped off and turned her ankle badly and suffering from disease himself when he arrived here. they knew no one so they had to began as everybody had to do it with hard work. night and day every day and all the children worked right away. now even keller didn't have the education his father had very important to keep in mind. i was asked in an interview just the other day of all the scenes in my book which do i

david: i think right now manning vanessa cutler. boy talk about in my commencement speech that i gave at ohio university. he was a preacher massachusetts. in a church there. he was also doctor, also a lawyer and practiced all three of these professions having introduced degrees in all three. and as a man who convinced the continental congress in the summer of 1787 before we had a constitution to create what was known as the northwest ordinance. that was the territory ceded to us by britain at the end of the revolutionary war. mary and the size of all of our 13 colonies. and no roads, no bridges, no towns, nothing. but wilderness. in molds and native americans and rattlesnakes in paris you name it. they specified, passed by congress, it would be total religious freedom in this area which would be made into states, five states. they rubio ohio, indiana, illinois, michigan, and wisconsin. the total freedom of religion. it would be government support for education from grade school all of the way through college. hence the beginning of