It is often discussed whether or not talent is inborn or if it is acquired through practice. Can anyone possess talent, or do you have to be what they call âa naturalâ? It is said that, some talents confined to an individual such as sports and music are innate.
After his four years of college he graduated from Yale and after his graduation in 1792, he went to Georgia. There he planned to teach and study law. While he was in Georgia he met Phineas Miller, who was also at Yale. He helped Eli with a place to stay, and introduced him to Catherine Littlefield Greene.
Through his mother, Zilpah Wadsworth, he received not only her family name, but also the blood of a number of Plymouth Pilgrims, including John Alden and Priscilla Mullins. In 1825, Henry graduated from Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine in the same class with Nathaniel Hawthorne and Franklin Pierce. Henry had already published both prose and verse, and hoped for a literary career. Bowdoin College offered him a Professorship, if he would study abroad first.