The United States biographical dictionary and portrait gallery of eminent and self-made men; Wisconsin volume . ncr in a store in Warsaw. After following merchandising about two years,he closed his business and went to Cincinnati, Ohio,whence he returned during the sanje season, andspent two years in study. He next engaged in west-ern land speculation, but soon abandoned it onaccount of the financial depression of 1836. In thefall of 1837 he went to New York, and pursued acourse of commercial study, intending to go to NewOrleans; but, failing to receive money from hislands, as he had expected,
The United States biographical dictionary and portrait gallery of eminent and self-made men; Wisconsin volume . ncr in a store in Warsaw. After following merchandising about two years,he closed his business and went to Cincinnati, Ohio,whence he returned during the sanje season, andspent two years in study. He next engaged in west-ern land speculation, but soon abandoned it onaccount of the financial depression of 1836. In thefall of 1837 he went to New York, and pursued acourse of commercial study, intending to go to NewOrleans; but, failing to receive money from hislands, as he had expected, he was obliged to relin-quish his purpose, and opened a school in New Yorkand spent a few months in teaching. Thence re-turning home, he staid a short time and then wentto Detroit, Michigan, where he passed the winter,spending much of his time in study. In the winterof 1838 he taught school near Akron, Ohio, and inthe following spring made an extended tour throughthe West. During his exposures he contracted theague, and on his way home in an open conveyancehe had chills and fever seven days in =^^^^^^^ LIEUTENANr-GOVERNOR OF WISCONSIN THE UNITED STATES BIOdRAPIUCAL DlCTlONARr Upon arriving at Chicago his funds became ex-hausted, and, borrowing twenty-five dollars of afriend, he took passage on a boat for Buffalo, andreached that city with enough money to pay hisstage fare to Warsaw, and twenty-five cents- this he tried to get his dinner at the hotel, butthe price being thirty cents, and the landlord beingunrelenting, he left without his dinner. Having decided to enter the medical profession,he in 1840 began his studies with Dr. Peter Caner,of Warsaw. At the end of one year he entered theoffice of Messrs. Baldwin and Patter, and remainedwith them until his graduation from Albany MedicalCollege in 1844. After practicing his profession forone year in his native place, he removed to Wiscon-sin; but not meeting with success, he became some-what discouraged, a
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