. History of Illinois Republicanism, embracing a history of the Republican party in the state to the present time ... with biographies of its founders and supporters ... also a chronological statement of important political events since 1774. and settled in Pekim. with less than five dollars in his pocket* but withan unlimited amount of pluck and energy. He taught in Pekin until the springof 1&40* when he was offered a position to write in the court house at Tremontby Ofiicers John H. Morrison and John Albert Jones, both clerks mere. now remembers both with deep gratitude. At this tun
. History of Illinois Republicanism, embracing a history of the Republican party in the state to the present time ... with biographies of its founders and supporters ... also a chronological statement of important political events since 1774. and settled in Pekim. with less than five dollars in his pocket* but withan unlimited amount of pluck and energy. He taught in Pekin until the springof 1&40* when he was offered a position to write in the court house at Tremontby Ofiicers John H. Morrison and John Albert Jones, both clerks mere. now remembers both with deep gratitude. At this tune he commencedreading law with Messrs. Baily & Wifanot. and in 1&41 was admitted to friend who aided Mam verv materialv with advice and kind acts wasL:-:::: 7 -,~. In August* 1&41. he came to Chnton. DeWitt County* ML. and intion with law carried on other enterprises, for he saw how impossible itbe for any lawyer, in any of the small county seats, to make more than a decentliving by the pure practice of law. He invested al ms spare means in land* theonly thing in winch money could be made in Central Illinois in that early has surveved and entered in his time, mostly for others* between seventy. jrff^^fc ?*«n^
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