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THE new home found by the Edison family at Po

ron, where Alva spent his brief boyhood before he became a tele

ph operator and roamed the whole middle We

at period, was unfortunately destroyed by fire just aft

he close of the Civil War. A smaller but perhaps mo

mfortable home was then built by Edison's father on

ome property he had bought at the near-by vill

e of Gratiot, and there his mother spent the remain

er of her life in confirmed invalidism1, dying in 1871. Henc

he pictures and postal2 cards sold largely