Reminiscences of the Bench and Bar of Missouri: With an Appendix, Containing Biographical Sketches of Nearly All of the Judges and Lawyers Who Have Passed Away, Together with Many Interesting and Valuable Letters Never Before Published of Washington, Jeff

Excerpt from Reminiscences of the Bench and Bar of Missouri: With an Appendix, Containing Biographical Sketches of Nearly All of the Judges and Lawyers Who Have Passed Away, Together With Many Interesting and Valuable Letters Never Before Published of Washington, Jefferson, Burr, Granger, Clinton, and Others, Some

It is not the purpose of the author to furnish a complete biography of the members Of the profession who contributed so much to frame and establish our local jurisprudence, but to give the reader a partial idea of the difficulties and priva tions they encountered, and to preserve some recollection Of their professional career, and some Of the incidents and anecdotes connected with their professional lives, which ought not to be suffered to pass into Oblivion.

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