Royal Professor of Law at Harvard. He was the first man buried on Harvard Hill the lot owned by Harvard University.
From FAG contributor P.K.Magruder;
He entered Williams College at the age of 13 and graduated in 1816. He then entered Harvard College in his junior year and graduated in 1818. He returned to study law with his father in Northampton; after his father's death he studied with Judge Lewis Strong. He practiced law in Northampton and opened the Northampton Law School with Elijah Hunt Mills and Judge Howe. He became an instructor at Harvard in 1828.
From FAG contributor P.K.Magruder;
He entered Williams College at the age of 13 and graduated in 1816. He then entered Harvard College in his junior year and graduated in 1818. He returned to study law with his father in Northampton; after his father's death he studied with Judge Lewis Strong. He practiced law in Northampton and opened the Northampton Law School with Elijah Hunt Mills and Judge Howe. He became an instructor at Harvard in 1828.
Royal Professor of Law at Harvard. He was the first man buried on Harvard Hill the lot owned by Harvard University.
From FAG contributor P.K.Magruder;
He entered Williams College at the age of 13 and graduated in 1816. He then entered Harvard College in his junior year and graduated in 1818. He returned to study law with his father in Northampton; after his father's death he studied with Judge Lewis Strong. He practiced law in Northampton and opened the Northampton Law School with Elijah Hunt Mills and Judge Howe. He became an instructor at Harvard in 1828.
From FAG contributor P.K.Magruder;
He entered Williams College at the age of 13 and graduated in 1816. He then entered Harvard College in his junior year and graduated in 1818. He returned to study law with his father in Northampton; after his father's death he studied with Judge Lewis Strong. He practiced law in Northampton and opened the Northampton Law School with Elijah Hunt Mills and Judge Howe. He became an instructor at Harvard in 1828.
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In him the science of law appeared native and intuitive. He went behind precedents to principles, and books were his helpers, never his masters. There was the beauty of accuracy in his understanding, and beauty of uprightness in his character. Through the slow progress of the disease which consumed his life, he kept unimpaired his kindness of temper and superiority of intellect. He did more work sick than others in health. He was fit to teach at an age when common men are beginning to learn, and his few years bore the fruit of long life. A lover of truth, an obeyer of duty, a sincere friend, and a wise instructor. His pupils raise this stone to his memory.
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