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Wt*TlU.In I804, at the ape of IS, becoming possessed with the ambition to study law. John McLean came to Cincinnati, and was hound by formal indentures for two years, to the Clerk of tlie Com! of Hamilton county. These articles of indenture are a great curiosity, ant* were published in the Daily Commercial, of April 0, I860. He was it: close student during these years, and used to build up a'great hickory fire in the winter evenings, and read and study every book he could lay his bauds on, until late of nights.He was much assisted in his law studies by the Hon. Arthur St. CTam, one of the bestcounsellors iu the West, and in his general literary pursuits, he derived advantage from the conversation and instructions of Mr. Robert Sn bbs, an old teacher, who kept a school two miles up the Licking river, in theolden time. •In 1807, he married Rebecca Edwatids, a native of South Carolina, whose mother wars a widow, who afterwards married Mr. Stubbs.The same year he removed to Lebanon, having a few months before his marriage purchased the Lebanon Star, a weekly newspaper. ami soon after, settling at the county sent of Warren, he opened a law office, having now been admitted to the bar. 1 Here the young attorney pursued the even tenor of his way for four or five years, gradually gaining the esteem and confidence of all with whom be came in contact. He was eaflj distinguished for industry, method, and a oareful attention to every duty which he assumed—qualities which never fail to conferafcdcew. • *lin October, 1812* he was chosen Representative in Congress, from the Cincinnati District, which then extended over Warren county. His majority was large, as he ran as a Democrat, in favor of the war with England. and a supporter of Madison's Administration against the highly unpopular Federalist policy of New England. lie was reelected in 1814 unanimously— receiving every vote cast at the polls—a circumstance unprecedented then, and which certainly has notoocpmd in tiiis Vieinity since.In 1815 he was urged to become a candidate for the U. S. Senate, but steadfasly declined,although sure of being chosen, bad he con-| seated. The neit year, 1816, he resigned his .-.eat in Congress to accept the office of Judge of the Supreme Court of Ohio, to which theLegislature bad elected him unanimously—astrong proof of the confidence and respect which this young counsellor of 31 had thus early attained among the people of his adopted State. 1 Judge McLban remained upon the Beach until 1822, when he accepted, from President Mokro*, the appointment of Commissioner of the Land Office. One year afterwards he was appointed Postmaster General, and in that office he at once establised a national reputation. This branch of the public senrice, which had been in a rerr iaefh'
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Cincinnati Daily Commercial
Cincinnati, Ohio, US
Fri, Apr 05, 1861
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