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If I remember from the book, which I read a long time ago, Almanzo Wilder claimed that his unusual first name was a tradition of his family, and stemmed from an from an ancestor whose life had been saved by an Arab (or maybe a Turk) during the Crusades, and who had given the Arab's name to his child to honour him.
Is there any evidence this is true? If so, it would make an interesting addition to the article. -- Saforrest 23:55, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
In the book Farmer Boy, a carriage maker offered to take Almanzo on as an apprentice. His father seemed to think it was a reasonable idea, but his mother furiously rejected it. She maintained that all the businesses in town were dependent on farmers for their business, which, in her mind, put farmers at the top of the social hierarchy. Therefore, Almanzo should be a farmer. As it turned out, Almanzo's life as a farmer was full of setbacks, disasters, years of backbreaking work in all kinds of weather, and only moderate success once the farm in Missouri was finally completed. As a carriage maker, his work would have been mostly indoors during regular hours. He was highly skilled with tools, and probably would have become a master at his craft very quickly.
I suppose we probably can't include this in the article, as it comes from one of Laura Ingalls Wilder's books, which cannot be relied on as references. She altered characters, events, and locations for numerous reasons. There's unfortunately no way of knowing if the story about the carriagemaker really happened.
RogerInPDX ( talk) 03:50, 29 August 2010 (UTC)
I don't understand the comment of the 1875 Census saying Almanzo was born in 1861; there are numerous sources that state he was born in 1857, including in the article. The U.S. Census is filled with errors. 74.69.9.224 ( talk) 21:30, 11 September 2013 (UTC)
I really think the whole final section regarding the plot line in the television show should be moved to a separate article, if not just flat-out deleted. It really has nothing to do with the real Almonzo Wilder. Todd Carnes ( talk) 00:45, 2 July 2014 (UTC)
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