. Album of history and biography of Meeker County, Minnesota . || ^^^OQai^tin Uan Bui^;^^|| i^agj-^^^F^iiagjg^T^ j;.^aafc.:g!t^-it33jt ^tt^ssj^s^^^ .^^i^^^^^^^^^ 4|)<&*Si«^jiJj4«i^<S§i»^-^i ^g ?LJ. ^^ #«<Pi*% ARTIN VAN BU- REN, the eighthrJ President of theUnited States, 1837-41, was born at Kin-derhook, New York,December 5, ancestors were of Dutchorigin, and were among theearHest emigrants from Hol-land to the banks of theHudson. His father was atavern-keeper, as well as afarmer, and a very decidedDemocrat.^ Martin commenced the studyof law at the age of fourteen, and
. Album of history and biography of Meeker County, Minnesota . || ^^^OQai^tin Uan Bui^;^^|| i^agj-^^^F^iiagjg^T^ j;.^aafc.:g!t^-it33jt ^tt^ssj^s^^^ .^^i^^^^^^^^^ 4|)<&*Si«^jiJj4«i^<S§i»^-^i ^g ?LJ. ^^ #«<Pi*% ARTIN VAN BU- REN, the eighthrJ President of theUnited States, 1837-41, was born at Kin-derhook, New York,December 5, ancestors were of Dutchorigin, and were among theearHest emigrants from Hol-land to the banks of theHudson. His father was atavern-keeper, as well as afarmer, and a very decidedDemocrat.^ Martin commenced the studyof law at the age of fourteen, and took anactive part in politics before he had reachedthe age of twenty. In 1803 he commencedthe practice of law in his native 1809 he removed to Hudson, the shiretown of his county, where he spent sevenyears, gaining strength by contending inthe courts with some of the ablest menwho have adorned the bar of his heroic example of John Quincy Adamsin retaining in ofifice every faithful man,without regard to his political preferences,had been thoroughly repudiated by Gen-eral Jackson. The unfortunate principlewas now fully established, that to thevictor belong the spoils. Still, this p
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