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Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway was born on the 21st of July 1899 in Oak Park, Chicago. He was the second of six children. He was born at eight o'clock in the south front bedroom of 439 North Oak Park Avenue (His grandfather's house). He weighed nine and a half pounds and measured twenty-three inches tall. At seven weeks old he was taken to Bear Lake, to the shorefront property that his father, Dr Ed Hemingway, had purchased the summer before. It was not until October 1st, on his parent's third wedding anniversary that he was baptized at the First Congregational Church. At three he had caught his first fish. His mother described him at three and a half years of age as:" Ernest Miller is a little man - no longer lazy - dresses himself completely and is a good helper for his father. He wears suspenders just like Papa. Is very proud to be a member of Agassiz (a nature study group organized by his father). He counts up to 100, can spell by ear very well. He likes to build......

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