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The scathing description of E.B. Ward in The Autobiography of David Ward:
"After Uncle Samuel's death, his willed estate, in addition to a considerable property possessed before by Eber B. Ward, mostly given him by Uncle Samuel before his death, constituted Eber B. Ward comparatively a very wealthy man at about 1855, considering the poverty of the then new West. Thus, at about 44 years of age, it came to pass, though he was largely so before that age, that E. B. Ward became an overbearing, egotistic, vainglorious, dishonest, tyrannical, vindictive, aggressive, energetic, selfish man, largely devoid of conscience. "...[he]...soon spread out his then comparatively vast fortune in some legitimate investments, but mostly in illegitimate, dishonest schemes in view of showing his financial ability, power and consequence."
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