Early life and times in Boone County, Indiana, giving an account of the early settlement of each locality, church histories, county and township officers from the first down to 1886 ..Biographical sketches of some of the prominent men and women .. . is eighteenth year he left this family and entereda country school, laboring of mornings, evenings and Satur-days to pay his way while attending school. In his nineteenthyear he attended the academy at Moorefield, Ky., which wasunder the control of Prof. Henry T. Trimble, an educatorof much excellence, and a graduate of Transylvania Uni-versity, Ky
Early life and times in Boone County, Indiana, giving an account of the early settlement of each locality, church histories, county and township officers from the first down to 1886 ..Biographical sketches of some of the prominent men and women .. . is eighteenth year he left this family and entereda country school, laboring of mornings, evenings and Satur-days to pay his way while attending school. In his nineteenthyear he attended the academy at Moorefield, Ky., which wasunder the control of Prof. Henry T. Trimble, an educatorof much excellence, and a graduate of Transylvania Uni-versity, Ky. While in this academy our subject made a specialty ofstudying the Latin and Greek languages; he attended thisschool about one year, and was then employed to teach a coun-try school near Moorefield, Ky.; here he taught one year, be-ing a more diligent student than any of his scholars. In thetwenty-second year of his age he was married to Frances Ann,daughter of William Atkinson. After this, he still continuedto teach school, but being unwilling to follow this occupationfor a life-time pursuit, he commenced the study of the law,reading what time was not devoted to his school work. InMarch, 1841, he went to the city of Madison, lud., and con-. HON. JAMES B. DALE. BOONE COUNTY, INDIANA. 337 tinned his law studies in the law office of the Hon. Joseph , who had a very extensive law library. After study-ing here about one year, he returned,to Carlisle, Ky., andstaid for a while in the law office of Wm. Norvell, he applied for a license to practice his profession, andwas examined as to his qualifications by Hon. Judge Keed, ofMaysville, and Judge Simpson, of Mount Sterling, Ky., andby them he was licensed to practice law in all the courts ofthat commonwealth. He was first admitted to the bar at Car-lisle, Ky., and there he did his first legal practice. In theautumn of 1843 he removed to Lebanon, Indiana, and residedon a small farm one-half mile east of the town. In
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