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side by side, carried muskets under General special hobby, so to speak. He was a John Stark at Bennington. powerful advocate of the restriction upon The education of the subject of this state indebtedness, and the provision against sketch was principally obtained at Spring state internal improvements, and the clauses field (Ohio) Academy, and at Granville preventing the division of counties by the College, now Denison College. There he legislature without local consent. excelled as a debater. He read law with In 1848, upon the adoption of the consti General Samson Mason and W. A. Rogers, tution, and the admission of the State into prominent at the Bar of Springfield; but the Union, he was elected circuit judge of

being young and pre his district, which ferring out-door oc made him one of the cupation, he found judges oftheSupreme employment in civil Court, as at first or engineering in the ganized. He much construction of the distrusted his fitness. Little Miami railroad. "I know I have mind Afterwards, he went and firmness enough; to Pontotac, Missis but then, I am such sippi, and there at a lazy dog," he wrote. tempted, but soon Afterwards he said he abandoned, farming; had been honest and was there admitted to industrious on the the Bar, and, entering bench, but doubted politics, was an un whether he had been successful candidate an able judge. He for the legislature, on served on the bench the "bond-paying" as part of the Su Democratic ticket. preme Court till its The climate not reorganization in agreeing with the 1863. In 1852, he ran for chief justice of the young lawyer, he came to Chicago. Separate Supreme TIMOTHY O. HOWE. He there began prac Court, on the Demo tice in 1844, and also cratic ticket, but was edited the " Democratic Advocate," and was defeated by Chief-Justice Whiton. He city attorney. In 1846 he married, and set served on the circuit bench until 1858, tled in Horicon, Dodge County, Wisconsin, when he resigned to become a candidate for which place, and the beautiful lake on which Congress, at the urgent solicitation of it is situated, he named, and there he founded Stephen A. Douglas, whose personal friend a home and erected mills. and faithful follower he was, who wanted to In 1847, he was elected a member of the show his anti-Lecompton strength in the second constitutional convention. He took Northwest in view of the Charleston conven an active and prominent part; and several tion of 1860. He made a spirited canvass, important features of the constitution that and so great was his personal popularity have since proved statutory safeguards that he overcame a twenty-five-hundred were strongly advocated by him. The Republican majority; but, when running for "homestead exemption clause " was his re-election in 1860, he shared the fate of his