As the family in this photograph was leaving their home in Ireland, the seven-year-old son said, “Good-bye God, we are going to Texas.”  Forced out of their home by the potato famine, they moved to a farm they bought in Texas.  The new land was suitable for grazing cattle, but not much good for farming.  The family lived in a tent for years, with sheets dividing the “living room” from the “bedroom.”  When he was eleven, the boy got a job as a water boy for a railroad construction crew.  Seeing all of the immigrants coming West, he figured that there was a better future in construction than in farming, so he went to work in a lumber yard.  Before he turned thirty, he had learned enough about the business to join his older brother and another man to found their own lumber company.  By the time he died, he had become a millionaire and the president of a chain of stores spread over four states.