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Title: The town and city of Waterbury, Connecticut
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Anderson, Joseph, 1836-1916, ed Prichard, Sarah J. (Sarah Johnson), 1830-1909 Ward, Anna Lydia, b. 1850?
Subjects: Waterbury (Conn.) -- History Waterbury (Conn.) -- Genealogy
Publisher: New Haven, The Price and Lee company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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uch as Josephus,Milton, Rowe and Pope, and the boy devoured these books, andformed a taste for reading which eaily made him a student. Hisfather was sent to the legislature year after year, so long as hechose to serve. Hard work on the farm, great economy in living,and a little saved from the small pay of a legislator enabled him tosend his son to Yale college. He entered in the sophomore year, in1787, being then fifteen years of age. At this period of his life,starting with a fine constitution, full health and a large frame, heformed habits of close study to which he adhered through life. 824 HISTORY OF WATERBURY. In 1791 he entered the Law school of the celebrated JudgeTapping Reeve of Litchfield. The instruction he there receivedand the lectures he attended were of great value to him in afterlife. In March, 1793, after only eighteen months of study he wasoffered an examination for admission to the bar, and was acceptedby the profession as a lawyer, being not yet twenty-one years of
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age. In April he rode from his home to Poughkeepsie, and placedhimself under the instruction of two young lawyers afterward wellknown as Chancellor Kent and Judge Radcliff. For eighteen dayshe worked sixteen hours a day, and thus prepared himself for prac-tice in the New York courts,—a task supposed to require threeyears of clerkship. THE LEGAL PROFESSION AND THE COURTS. 825 Being now ready for work, he took passage at Poughkeepsie in asloop, with little money and few encumbrances. Landing on thebeach at New York, where Greenwich street abuts on the Battery,he stood in the great city, which then extended to where the Cityhall now stands, and thence along Chatham street to Pearl street.His letters of introduction included one addressed to Colonel AaronBurr, who was ever generous towards young men of ability, andwhose disinterested exertions for young Hopkins gave him a goodstart in his profession. Another letter was addressed to JamesWatson, a wealthy and influential citizen of New Y

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