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Retrospections of an Active Life Volume 1 (en Inglés)
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Retrospections of an Active Life Volume 1 (en Inglés) - John Bigelow
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 Excerpt: ... m LAW STUDENT AND LAWYER 1835-1848 I SPENT the summer at home, much of the time deliberating with myself and with my people of what I should do next. I had no definite plan for the future. Only upon one point was I determined: not to go into my father's business. There was not more than enough for my brothers. Independently of that, I realized that during the last four years I had contracted tastes and conceived ideas which I knew could never be indulged, still less satisfied, in Malden. The alternative seemed to me to be a literary profession of some kind. What I had seen and heard of and from parsons did not attract me to the church. Doctoring I was ignorant enough to think an unpleasant business. The law seemed to open the widest horizon in. our country and the one that offered most attractions. My father seemed disposed to encourage that preference. But where and how to prosecute itT There were no law schools in those days, in New York at least, and the profession had to be studied in the office of some practising lawyer for a term of years and until the student could pass an examination by the members of the bar appointed by the Supreme Court for that purpose. My family had few acquaintances with members of the legal profession, and with none whom I cared to be associated with. Finally, and through whose instigation I have no recollection, I applied to the firm of Bushnell & Gall, at Hudson, for the privilege of a student's seat in their office. Neither of the firm was known professionally or otherwise to any member of my family. I received a favorable reply to my application, and early in September, 1835, packed my trunk, went to Hudson, and matriculated in their office as a student of law. Mr. Bushnell was one of the soundest lawyers then practising...
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