He was admitted to the practice of law.

The evidence

• “When about twenty-one, he commenced the publication of a weekly newspaper, which he continued about twelve years. He then began the study of law, and was admitted to its practice in 1833. From his long continuance in, and his associations with Vermont, he claimed, without repudiating the paternity of his native state, to be a Green Mountain boy.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/32-courts-and-legal-profession.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 217 / book p. 720

  Brown, William Fiske, editor. Rock County, Wisconsin: A New History of Its Cities, Villages, Towns, Citizens and Varied Interests, from the Earliest Times, Up to Date. Chicago: C. F. Cooper & Co., 1908. 2 vols. archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon01brow, archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon02brow.

  Grade A: Found on a page of one of our sources