A graduate entered Hamilton College in 1832 and graduated in 1836, immediately beginning legal studies with Augustus Donnelly at Homer (two such men are recorded).

The evidence

• “After obtaining the rudiments of education at the district school, he at an early age entered the Cortland Academy at Homer, where he pursued the usual routine of academic stpdies, and prepared himself for college. He entered Hamilton College in 1832 and graduated in 1836, and was one of the first members of the Alpha Delta Phi Society in that institution. The same year, "he commenced his legal studies with Augustus Donnelly, a distinguished counselor at law at Homer, N.”

  1879-history-of-rock-county/11-rock-county-ch05-press-institutions-tragedy.md, PDF p. 423 / book p. 427

  Butterfield, C. W., et al. The History of Rock County, Wisconsin: its early settlement, growth, development, resources, etc. Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1879. Cornell University Library via the Internet Archive, archive.org/details/cu31924028871585.

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