Souvenir and official programme of the centennial celebration of George Washington's inauguration as first president of the United States (1889)
Alden, John · New York, Garnett & Gow · leaf 90
vania. He felt that no man’s energies could be better spent than in the instruction of youth. Like Robert Morris, James Wilson was reduced to financial ruin by land speculation. He was thrown into a debtor’s prison on the suit of Pierce Butler, who had served with him in the Constitutional Con-… … he spent three years at the Temple, in JOHN DICKINSON. London, to give himself greater familiarity with the common law. He returned to this country and began the practice of law in the city -where he had first studied. He was sent to the Assembly of Pennsyl- vania in 1764, and in 1765 was a member…
Washington, George, 1732-1799
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