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... Davis of St. Louis . ' The great bulk of these , in which Lincoln represented both plaintiffs and defendants , were ... Davis group was S. C. Davis and Company , consisting of Davis , Henry T. Thomlinson , Mathew Boody , and Nathan W ...
... Davis of St. Louis . ' The great bulk of these , in which Lincoln represented both plaintiffs and defendants , were ... Davis group was S. C. Davis and Company , consisting of Davis , Henry T. Thomlinson , Mathew Boody , and Nathan W ...
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... Davis served from 1848 until Lincoln , the President , put him on the Supreme Court of the United States in 1862. Hence , the great bulk of Lincoln's practice in the state court was before either Treat or Davis , Treat in the period ...
... Davis served from 1848 until Lincoln , the President , put him on the Supreme Court of the United States in 1862. Hence , the great bulk of Lincoln's practice in the state court was before either Treat or Davis , Treat in the period ...
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... Davis at- tributed this to an uninviting domestic life . Lincoln did not mind the hardship of the circuits . Food , for example , was always a matter of indifference to him . Davis recalled him good - na- turedly saying at one grubby ...
... Davis at- tributed this to an uninviting domestic life . Lincoln did not mind the hardship of the circuits . Food , for example , was always a matter of indifference to him . Davis recalled him good - na- turedly saying at one grubby ...
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