. Biographical and portrait cyclopedia of Chautauqua County, New York. don received his education in thecommon schools of Ontario county, and Fre-donia academy of Chautauqua county, fromwhich he was graduated iu the class of graduation he took up the study of lawwith George Barker, afterwards read with AlvahWarden, a prominent lawyer of Ontario countyand a brother-in-law of William H. Seward,and was admitted to the bar of the SupremeCourt at Batavia in 1854. Immediately afteradmission he formed a partnership with hisbrother Alexander, at Randolph, Cattarauguscounty, where he remaine
. Biographical and portrait cyclopedia of Chautauqua County, New York. don received his education in thecommon schools of Ontario county, and Fre-donia academy of Chautauqua county, fromwhich he was graduated iu the class of graduation he took up the study of lawwith George Barker, afterwards read with AlvahWarden, a prominent lawyer of Ontario countyand a brother-in-law of William H. Seward,and was admitted to the bar of the SupremeCourt at Batavia in 1854. Immediately afteradmission he formed a partnership with hisbrother Alexander, at Randolph, Cattarauguscounty, where he remained until 1856, when hecame to Jamestown and opened an office. Thenext year he removed to Rockford, Illinois,where he secured a lucrative practice, and at-tained such favorable standing with the peojJeof Winnebago county that he was elected in1861 from that county as a delegate to the StateConstitutional Convention of that year. Hewas one of the twenty-two republican niembersof that notable body, which contained many ofthe leading meu and ablest jurists of that
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