Ever since he graduated from the old grammar
school on Fort Hill, he has been swayed by Boston ideas and influences.
The excellent ground-work of his education obtained in that school soon
became enlarged and increased through the efforts of young O'Brien to
add to his stock of information on all conceivable subjects. To
accomplish this he haunted the Public Library, and eagerly read
everything of a useful nature--history, biography and statistics having
a peculiar fascination to him. During this time he had also entered the
office of the _Boston Courier_ to learn the printer's trade, at the
age of twelve years. He made rapid progress in that important art. From
the _Courier_ he went to the book and job printing office of
Messrs. Tuttle, Dennett & Chisholm, on School street, where he became
foreman at the early age of fifteen. After several years service there,
he started the publication of the _Shipping and Commercial List_,
with which he still maintains a connection, and has always been its
principal editor.
Any young man desiring to advance himself intellectually and socially in
life could not have had a better schooling than that afforded by the
newspaper work which Mr.
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