. New York state's prominent and progressive men;. lhnggoods for a nurseryman, hotel service, etc., as were common withstudents there who were not blessed with riches. But m June,1886, he was creditably gi-aduated with his class. After somemore hotel work and school-teaching, he studied law at Platts-bui-g. New York, and on November 26,1889, was admitted to thebar at Albany. He had meanwhile been, in two successive years,a candidate for school commissioner, first in Franklin County,and then in Clinton County. But Mr. Botsford was a Demo-crat, and the districts in which he was a cancUdate were
. New York state's prominent and progressive men;. lhnggoods for a nurseryman, hotel service, etc., as were common withstudents there who were not blessed with riches. But m June,1886, he was creditably gi-aduated with his class. After somemore hotel work and school-teaching, he studied law at Platts-bui-g. New York, and on November 26,1889, was admitted to thebar at Albany. He had meanwhile been, in two successive years,a candidate for school commissioner, first in Franklin County,and then in Clinton County. But Mr. Botsford was a Demo-crat, and the districts in which he was a cancUdate were stronglyRepubUcan. There was, therefore, httle hope of his made a vigorous fight, however, and won many voters overto his support. The result of the last polhng showed him to bedefeated, but by a margin of only twenty-eight votes in a districtwhich usujilly gave a Republican majority of sixteen was, in a measure, gratifpng to his pride, but it did notencourage him to seek further for pohtical preferment. Instead, fpi 1^ P.
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