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Russell Conwell: A Biographical Sketch
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When he returned to civilian life he earned a degree from Albany Law School.
He spent a few years in St. Paul, Minnesota where he maintained a law practice and also started a newspaper. He continued to work as a journalist after he moved back to Massachusetts in He submitted stories about a trip through the South to revisit the battlefields of the Civil War and an account of a journey around the world in It was on this trip that he first heard the tale that would inspire his "Acres of Diamonds" speech.
His reputation as a speaker opened an additional career path; he was hired by the Boston Lyceum Bureau as a lecturer in the 'l Herman Conwell was born on a farm near South Worthington, Massachusetts on February 15, While he was attending Wilbraham Academy as a young man, he took a teaching position at a district school to help pay for his own education.
He began Yale University in and found student jobs that enabled