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Identifier: lincolnlawy1762hillin (find matches)
Title: Lincoln, the lawyer
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Hill, Frederick Trevor, 1866-1930
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lawyers Presidents
Publisher: New York : Century Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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however,the firm of Lincoln & Herndon met with fairsuccess, the junior partner making a good cleri-cal assistant in the drawing of pleadings andthe minutiae of procedure, and in 1844-5 thesenior partner argued no less than thirty-threeappeals before the Supreme Court, an excellentfirst-year record.1 Doubtless he would havebeen even more successful at the outset had 1 The writers examination of the Illinois Circuit Court recordsshows that Lincoln conducted all the trial work of the firm atthis period. It is stated in the third volume of the McLean CountyHistorical Societys transactions that Herndon never did anycircuit work during his partnership with Lincoln; but this ismanifestly an error, for his name appears frequently in the recordsof later years. 144 HEAD OF A LAW FIRM he devoted himself exclusively to the law, but in1845 he was again a candidate for the congres-sional nomination, and his preparation for the ZfA^p^-u^) c^¥-^Sl^-*-^*-^C> /IH J*~ s*4>rf *L MM; J>a~~*
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