248.] [Footnote 4: Burke, _Reminiscences of Georgia_, p.

85.] [Footnote 5: Simmons, _Men of Mark_, p.

126.] [Footnote 6: Drew, _Refugee_, p.

152.] Probably the best example of this class was Harrison Ellis of Alabama.
At the age of thirty-five he had acquired a liberal education by his own exertions.

Upon examination he proved himself a good Latin and Hebrew scholar and showed still greater proficiency in Greek.