The Americana: A Universal Reference Library, Comprising the Arts and Sciences, Literature, History, Biography, Geography, Commerce, Etc., of the World, Volume 16Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines Scientific American compiling department, 1912 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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Page 88 - Returning home he resumed his legal studies, spending a year at the Harvard Law School. He was admitted to the bar in Concord in March, 1882, and soon after entered upon the practice of his profession.