Illustrated biography; or, Memoirs of the great and the good of all nations and all times; comprising sketches of eminent statesmen, philosophers, heroes, artists, reformers, philanthropists, mechanics, navigators, authors, poets, divines, soldiers, savans, etc . lvania in 1733, was one of the first settlers of that district, and his/athera man of ability and daring energy of character, represented it in the colonialand state legislatures more than thirty years. In his thirteenth year, Mr. Calhoun was placed at an academy in Georgia,of which Mr. Waddell, a presbyterian clergyman who had marrie
Illustrated biography; or, Memoirs of the great and the good of all nations and all times; comprising sketches of eminent statesmen, philosophers, heroes, artists, reformers, philanthropists, mechanics, navigators, authors, poets, divines, soldiers, savans, etc . lvania in 1733, was one of the first settlers of that district, and his/athera man of ability and daring energy of character, represented it in the colonialand state legislatures more than thirty years. In his thirteenth year, Mr. Calhoun was placed at an academy in Georgia,of which Mr. Waddell, a presbyterian clergyman who had married his sister,was principal. But the death of his father, in 1796, caused an interruption ofhis studies, which were not resumed until he was nearly nineteen years of determined to be a planter, he had abandoned all thoughts of a classicaleducation ; but an elder brother at this period persuaded him to pursue one ofthe liberal professions, and he entered so earnestly upon the business of prep-aration, that within two years from his commencement of the Latin grammarhe was received into the junior class of Yale college. It is related that afteran animated controversy with the student, which arose during a class recitation 550 JOHN CALDWELL Portrait of John C. Calhoun. from Paleyvthe eminent head of the college remarked to a friend that theyoung man had talents enough to be president of the United States, and wouldone day attain to that station. The aim of his ambition was shown in the se-lection of his commencement thesis, which was, The qualifications necessaryto constitute a perfect statesman. He graduated in September, 1804, and im-mediately began the study of the law, in the well-known school of Litchfield,Ct., where he remained nearly two years. Mr. Calhoun afterward passed several months in the office of the chancellorDe Saussure in Charleston, and was admitted to the bar in Abbeville, in at once took a high rank in the courts, and in 1809, was el
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