v. 1. The Stoddard family tree -- Childhood in Rochester -- Boyhood in Homer -- The old garret and other wonders -- In the village -- The river -- The hill and the woods -- The academy and the shop -- The young city -- The Onondaga Street house -- Hoyt's School -- The bookstore -- The new garret -- The church -- The Jerry rescue riot -- Miscellaneous -- Going to college -- College days -- The junior year -- Grand Prairie -- The log cabin home -- Prarie life -- The winter prairie -- Frontier journalism -- Forward -- Suppers at the bank -- Characters and incidents -- A new beginning -- War -- A new life -- The war city -- Guns and things -- Society and other things -- A very busy year v.2. Wartime enterprises -- Incidentals -- Forward march! -- The southwest -- Kaleidoscopic -- The assassination of the President -- The spring and then a summer -- The Ebbing tide -- The breaking up of the war-time and the army -- From the wreck -- Half forgotten things recalled -- More long links in the life-chain -- A long, hard toiling -- Morrisania days "Told for his children by William O. Stoddard in his old age." Signed by the author Donated by the author's granddaughter, Eleanor H. Stoddard Part of the William O. Stoddard collection 18