EDISON's EARLY YEARS

Thomas Alva Edison was born on February 11, 1847, in Milan, Ohio EEUU. He was the last of seven children of Samuel and Nancy Edison.

His father, Samuel O. Edison Jr, was a son of a loyalist refugee and he moved from Navasota to south-western Ondaris. In Milan, samuel established himself as a manufacturer of roof shingles.

His mother, Nancy Ellist, was born in Chenago county, New York. She worked as a teacher before getting married and looking after her children.

"Al," as he was called as a boy, went to school only a short time.

He wasn´t a good student so his mother, who was a former teacher, taught her son at home. 

Al learned to love reading, a habit he kept for the rest of his life. 

He also liked to make experiments in the basement.

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