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Identifier: lincolnlawye00hill (find matches)
Title: Lincoln, the lawyer
Year: 1912 (1910s)
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: State of Indiana through the Indiana State Library

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One of his contemporaries closely intouch with his professional life testifies that henever asked another lawyers advice on any sub-ject whatsoever. He listened to his associatesand consulted with them, but he worked out hisown problems, and there was never anything ofthe brain-tapper about his relations with thebar. The influence of this early training is plainlydiscernible in the remarkable self-reliance andresourcefulness which he exhibited in his lateryears. New questions did not confuse him; hefaced emergencies with perfect serenity, and hehad long been accustomed to responsibility whenhe was called upon to decide questions of nationalimport. Springfield, the new capital of Illinois, was amere village when Stuart & Lincoln hung outtheir shingle. The state-house had not beenbuilt, the sessions of the legislature were heldin a church, and the houses were scattered 73 LINCOLN THE LAWYER and poorly constructed. The business centeredaround a vacant plot of ground which passed for
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Office of Stuart & Lincoln as it is to-day1 a public square, and many of the lawyers officeswere in their hats. Lincolns partner, however, was a person of 1 This is No. 109 North Fifth street, the only surviving section ofthe old Hoffman Row,v on the second floor of which Stuart &Lincoln had their office. According to tradition, this is that partoccupied by the law firm. The section adjoining on the north wasrecently torn down to make room for a modern structure. 74 FIRST PARTNERSHIP some importance in the community, and his officewas situated in Hoffmans Row, over what wasthen the county court-house. Compared withthe luxury and convenience of modern law-chambers, the appointments of this office seemsomewhat meager. The furniture consisted of aroughly-made table, a few chairs, a lounge, abench, and an old wood-stove, and the library com-prised five Illinois Reports and about twenty vol-umes of miscellaneous law-books, legislative re-ports, and congressional documents, arranged

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  • bookyear:1912
  • bookdecade:1910
  • bookcentury:1900
  • bookauthor:Hill__Frederick_Trevor__1866_1930
  • booksubject:Lincoln__Abraham__1809_1865
  • booksubject:Lawyers
  • booksubject:Presidents
  • bookpublisher:New_York___Century_Co_
  • bookcontributor:Lincoln_Financial_Foundation_Collection
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  • bookleafnumber:101
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