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| Of Amherst, commenced his studies preparatory for college in the town school of Amh., under the instruction of William D. Williamson, afterwards Governor of Me., and completed the same at had. Grammar school, under the instruction of -- Lyman, entered Williams College in 1810, and graduated with distinguished honor in 1814, in the same class with Rev. Orville Dewey, D. D. of Boston, Hon. Samuel Farley Vinton of Gallipolis, O., and Washington, D. C., and Hon. Austin E. Wing of Detroit, Mich., pursued his legal studies with Hon. Samuel Fowler Dickinson of Amh., was admitted to the bar of Hampshire County, in Aug. 1817, and entered immediately into practice with his instructor. In 1820, his partnership with Mr. Dickinson having been dissolved, he opened an office of his own, and continued practice until 1836, when he retired from business. In 1828 he was appointed Secretary of Amh. College, an office which he still retains. In politics originally a Whig, he was subsequently a member of the Liberty party and in 1841 their candidate for Governor. |
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