The Cape Girardeau Democrat
21 Nov 1896
Missouri State News
Gen. R.F. Wingate, ex-attorney general of Missouri, died at the family residence, No. 3018 Sheridan avenue, St. Louis, of congestion of the lungs.
The deceased distinguished himself in politics and at the bar and was honored and loved by a legion of friends.
The general closed his eventful life at the age of 74. He was born in Boone County, Kentucky, in 1822, and removed with his parents when a mere child to Mount Vernon, Illinois, where he was reared and educated. He was admitted to the bar at Vincennes, Ind., before he came of age and achieved a reputation as a successful lawyer from the first.
When he took his first case General Wingate asked assistance of Abraham Lincoln, who was then at the pinnacle of his fame as a lawyer, and the latter told him to draw up his brief and he would examine it. This the young attorney did and when he went to Mr. Lincoln with the brief before breakfast the following morning, the latter went over it carefully, and, returning it, said: "Youmg man, go ahead and try your case. You have no need of my asistance: you will win without me." Young Wingate did as he was told, and he won the case.
Gen. Wingate located in St. Louis in 1854 and resumed the practice of law. Ex-Lieut. Gov. Charles P. Johnson studied law in Gen. Wingate's office. The general was elected to the legislature and was appointed judge advocate general of the state during the war. In 1864, he was elected attorney-general of Missouri on the ticket with Gov. Fletcher, and served until 1868, when he returned to St. Louis.
21 Nov 1896
Missouri State News
Gen. R.F. Wingate, ex-attorney general of Missouri, died at the family residence, No. 3018 Sheridan avenue, St. Louis, of congestion of the lungs.
The deceased distinguished himself in politics and at the bar and was honored and loved by a legion of friends.
The general closed his eventful life at the age of 74. He was born in Boone County, Kentucky, in 1822, and removed with his parents when a mere child to Mount Vernon, Illinois, where he was reared and educated. He was admitted to the bar at Vincennes, Ind., before he came of age and achieved a reputation as a successful lawyer from the first.
When he took his first case General Wingate asked assistance of Abraham Lincoln, who was then at the pinnacle of his fame as a lawyer, and the latter told him to draw up his brief and he would examine it. This the young attorney did and when he went to Mr. Lincoln with the brief before breakfast the following morning, the latter went over it carefully, and, returning it, said: "Youmg man, go ahead and try your case. You have no need of my asistance: you will win without me." Young Wingate did as he was told, and he won the case.
Gen. Wingate located in St. Louis in 1854 and resumed the practice of law. Ex-Lieut. Gov. Charles P. Johnson studied law in Gen. Wingate's office. The general was elected to the legislature and was appointed judge advocate general of the state during the war. In 1864, he was elected attorney-general of Missouri on the ticket with Gov. Fletcher, and served until 1868, when he returned to St. Louis.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat
21 Nov 1896
Missouri State News
Gen. R.F. Wingate, ex-attorney general of Missouri, died at the family residence, No. 3018 Sheridan avenue, St. Louis, of congestion of the lungs.
The deceased distinguished himself in politics and at the bar and was honored and loved by a legion of friends.
The general closed his eventful life at the age of 74. He was born in Boone County, Kentucky, in 1822, and removed with his parents when a mere child to Mount Vernon, Illinois, where he was reared and educated. He was admitted to the bar at Vincennes, Ind., before he came of age and achieved a reputation as a successful lawyer from the first.
When he took his first case General Wingate asked assistance of Abraham Lincoln, who was then at the pinnacle of his fame as a lawyer, and the latter told him to draw up his brief and he would examine it. This the young attorney did and when he went to Mr. Lincoln with the brief before breakfast the following morning, the latter went over it carefully, and, returning it, said: "Youmg man, go ahead and try your case. You have no need of my asistance: you will win without me." Young Wingate did as he was told, and he won the case.
Gen. Wingate located in St. Louis in 1854 and resumed the practice of law. Ex-Lieut. Gov. Charles P. Johnson studied law in Gen. Wingate's office. The general was elected to the legislature and was appointed judge advocate general of the state during the war. In 1864, he was elected attorney-general of Missouri on the ticket with Gov. Fletcher, and served until 1868, when he returned to St. Louis.
21 Nov 1896
Missouri State News
Gen. R.F. Wingate, ex-attorney general of Missouri, died at the family residence, No. 3018 Sheridan avenue, St. Louis, of congestion of the lungs.
The deceased distinguished himself in politics and at the bar and was honored and loved by a legion of friends.
The general closed his eventful life at the age of 74. He was born in Boone County, Kentucky, in 1822, and removed with his parents when a mere child to Mount Vernon, Illinois, where he was reared and educated. He was admitted to the bar at Vincennes, Ind., before he came of age and achieved a reputation as a successful lawyer from the first.
When he took his first case General Wingate asked assistance of Abraham Lincoln, who was then at the pinnacle of his fame as a lawyer, and the latter told him to draw up his brief and he would examine it. This the young attorney did and when he went to Mr. Lincoln with the brief before breakfast the following morning, the latter went over it carefully, and, returning it, said: "Youmg man, go ahead and try your case. You have no need of my asistance: you will win without me." Young Wingate did as he was told, and he won the case.
Gen. Wingate located in St. Louis in 1854 and resumed the practice of law. Ex-Lieut. Gov. Charles P. Johnson studied law in Gen. Wingate's office. The general was elected to the legislature and was appointed judge advocate general of the state during the war. In 1864, he was elected attorney-general of Missouri on the ticket with Gov. Fletcher, and served until 1868, when he returned to St. Louis.
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