Editing Cyrus W. Field (section)

==Early life==
Field was born in [[Stockbridge, Massachusetts]] to Rev. [[David Dudley Field I|David Dudley Field]], a Congregational [[clergy]]man, and Submit Dickinson Field, daughter of Revolutionary War Captain Noah Dickinson from Somers, Connecticut. The eighth of ten children, he was the brother of [[David Dudley Field II|David Dudley Field Jr.]], [[Henry Martyn Field (minister)|Henry Martyn Field]], and [[Stephen Johnson Field]], the 38th United States Supreme Court Justice, among other siblings. When he was 15 years old, Field came to [[New York City]], where he was hired as an errand boy in the [[Alexander Turney Stewart|A.T. Stewart & Co.]], a [[dry goods]] merchant firm. He entered a business apprenticeship, and earned fifty dollars at his first year as a storeroom clerk; his pay was doubled the following year.<ref name="Judson, I. F.">Judson, I. F. (1896). [https://books.google.com/books?id=UoUpBgAAQBAJ&q=Cyrus+W.+Field+%3B+His+Life+and+Work++By+Isabella+Field+Judson Cyrus W. Field, his life and work, 1819–1892.] New York: Harper & Brothers.</ref> After three years, he came back to Stockbridge, but returned to New York later in his career.<ref name=gotham675 /> Field married Mary Bryan Stone on December 2, 1840, two days after he turned twenty one, and they had seven children.<ref name="Judson, I. F." />