Reared in a poor family on the western frontier, Lincoln was mostly self-educated, and became a country lawyer, a Whig Party leader, Illinois state legislator during the 1830s, and a one-term member of the United States House of Representatives during the 1840s.

While young Lincoln's formal elementary education consisted approximately of a year's worth of classes from several itinerant teachers, he was mostly self-educated and was an avid reader.

Bronson gave it up after only a month and was self-educated from then on. He was not particularly social and his only close friend was his neighbor and second cousin William Alcott, with whom he shared books and ideas.

He was largely self-educated, and began to draw at age ten.

Clark Ashton Smith ( 13 January 1893 – 14 August 1961 ) was a self-educated American poet, sculptor, painter and author of fantasy, horror and science fiction short stories.

John Harrison ( 24 March 1693 – 24 March 1776 ) was a self-educated English carpenter and later a clockmaker.

John Newton was an only child, and was a self-educated sea captain, at one time captaining slave ships.

London was essentially self-educated.

Jacques, although studious and largely self-educated, did not have Jean-François ' genius for language ; however, he was talented at earning a living, and supported Jean-François for most of his life.

" Ellis ( 2011 ) says that Abigail, although self-educated, was a better and more colorful letter-writer than John, even though John was one of the best letter-writers of the age.

He had a limited education in the common schools, then was self-educated.

The son of Maturin Ballou, a Baptist minister, Hosea Ballou was self-educated, and devoted himself early on to the ministry.

Timothy was educated at the Christian Brothers school in Fermoy, and was otherwise largely self-educated, in 1869 at the age of fourteen going to live with his uncle Timothy Daniel Sullivan MP in Dublin.

Not finishing his normal education, Bonifacio was self-educated.

Francisco Morazán was for the most part, a self-educated man.

As a young man he worked as a shepherd and farmhand, and was largely self-educated through reading.

He had little schooling, and was largely self-educated.

James Watt was a surveyor and instrument maker and is described as being " largely self-educated ".

The pony herd was the one flaw in our defense ; ;

His face was split by a vermilion streak, his eyes were pools of white ; ;

And there was a house ; ;

The town was about what Wilson expected: one main street with its rows of false-fronted buildings, a water tower, a few warehouses, a single hotel ; ;

Such was my state of mind that I did not question the possibility of this ; ;

It was dark and, I sensed, very large ; ;

He was a man in his late forties, with graying hair, of medium height ; ;

He had looked over my forms and was impressed by what he had seen there ; ;

In his mood, it was the best way to handle him ; ;

This, he was sure, was the way they would act ; ;

His aim was hurried ; ;

At once my ears were drowned by a flow of what I took to be Spanish, but -- the driver's white teeth flashing at me, the road wildly veering beyond his glistening hair, beyond his gesticulating bottle -- it could have been the purest Oxford English I was half hearing ; ;

They were married over the week-end, though he was easily sixty and she could not have been even thirty.

True, she was my Aunt, married to an Uncle related to me only by marriage, but why she had married a man twice her age, and more, perhaps, I did not know or much care.

After a year in a studio on Sheridan Square, having married an American girl who was a native of Virginia, Helion moved to a village in the Blue Ridge mountains, where he produced some of the most imposing of his abstract canvases.

It is difficult to say what Thompson expected would come of their relationship, which had begun so soon after his emotions had been stirred by Maggie Brien, but when Katie wrote on April 11, 1900, to tell him that she was to be married to the Rev. Godfrey Burr, the vicar of Rushall in Staffordshire, the news evidently helped to deepen his discouragement over the failure of his hopes for a new volume of verse.

Now he was married to a beautiful girl, had a small son, and lived in an expensive apartment and worked for the movies.

After all, when one has asked whatever became of old Joe and Charlie when one has inquired who it was Sue Brown married and where it is they now live when questions are asked and answered about families and children, and old professors when the game and its probable outcome has been exhausted that does it.

Ann Catt was a lonely, devoted soul, never married, conducting a spotless home and devoted to her church, but a perpetual dissenter and born critic.

But yes, nineteen plus thirty was forty-nine, and she was forty-nine and she had been married at nineteen.

When they first married he had been working in the fields all day, and she would get in the car and drive to wherever he was working, to take him a fresh hot meal.

Ballet flowered in Italy during the next hundred years, and about 1550 was carried to France when the Italian princess, Catherine De Medicis, married the King of France.

They were married at a lavish ceremony which was duly recorded in Parvenu and all other magazines and newspapers, and then they honeymooned in Bermuda.

Then there was the caterer's ad which read: `` are you getting married or having an affair??

This action was rationalized on the basis of a small survey which indicated that a high percentage of married freshmen women on our campus never become sophomores.

But the greater part of semester time was actually centered around the attitudes: `` So we are married -- now how do we make the best of it ''??

Supplemental outside reading reports were handled just as in the other sections, the major difference being that there was a noticeably deeper level in the reported outside reading by the married group.

He was a Londoner, married, with three sons.

After he had been away from home about a year he wrote: `` ( dear Wife ) if I did not write and receive letters from you I believe that I would forgit that I was married.

The morning he walked in to announce to her, blushing, that he was married.

She was married to him for better or for worse.

The couple was married Aug. 2, 1913.

Miss Joan Frances Baker, a graduate of SMU, was married Saturday to Elvis Leonard Mason, an honor graduate of Lamar State College of Technology, in the chapel of the First Presbyterian Church of Houston.

Miss Shirley Joan Meredith, a former student of North Texas State University, was married Saturday to Larry W. Mills, who has attended Arlington State College.

I had also thought a lot about how God must look on true love, and so in a way I was keeping my promise to God, my promise to remain pure until I was married.