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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER IV FURTHER TRAINING Studies Law ? The Litchfield Law School ? Growth of Opinion. Arriving, doubtless, in Charleston, it may be surmised that Calhoun soon went up to the neighborhood of Abbeville to live and to make further progress in his education. A little more than four years of the term of seven he had appointed were gone, and a course of study in law still lay ahead of him. His mother had died about the time he went to Yale in 1802 1 and it seems that the management of his private affairs was in the hands of his brother James.2 Indeed, I presume it is likely that the family estate was still managed as a whole. He spent the ensuing winter of 1805 in Abbeville, studying law with George Bowie, an eminent and leading lawyer on the Western Circuit, who is said to have been the first member of his profession to reside in Abbeville.3 Calhoun had evidently made up his mind from the start to secure the best education, and he came to the conclusion to take a course at the then famous law school maintained at Litchfield, Connecticut, by Judge Tapping Reeve, of the Connecticut Superior Court, and James Gould. This school was known far and wide and was the first institution in the United States at which law was taught to established classes by a system of lectures. It was attended by students from various parts of the country and resorted to by Southerners to no littleextent. Calhotm found some of his home acquaintance already there upon his arrival. 1This is the time of her death distinctly asserted by Col. Starke ( Sketch, p. 80). Curiously enough, Calhoun himself once wrote that his mother died when he was sixteen years old (i.e., in 1798). Letter to John Rodgers printed in Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. VII (1901), p. 328- - 2 Let...
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