![]() ![]() ![]() He established another trade journal, The Poultry Record, in 1880. By the time he was 17, Baum had started a more serious journal, The Stamp Collector, and gone into business as a stamp dealer.Ī few years later, he began raising specialty poultry, which was something of a fad in the United States at the time. They sold advertisements to local businesses and gave the paper away to their friends and family. While still a child, he started a local newspaper with his younger brother. Writing and publishing were always part of Baum’s life. After two years, he was sent home when he had a mild heart attack-at 14!-after being disciplined for daydreaming. He was miserable there he found it difficult to focus and didn’t respond well to the school’s strict discipline. Baum and his siblings were mostly tutored at home, though Baum was sent to military school when he was twelve. His father was successful in real estate, the oil business, and several other enterprises. Baum was the seventh of nine children born into a prosperous family. ![]()
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