Some recollections of my past life.

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Some recollections of my past life.

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Reminiscences fully entitled "Some recollections of my past life, of near (now) three score and ten years; for my grandchildren," written in four sections by David Holmes Conrad, a lawyer who spent part of his adult life in Missouri and part in Martinsburg, W. Va. His recollections include his childhood in Winchester, Va., with his parents Daniel and Rebecca (Holmes) Conrad, his education and choice of a legal career and subsequent move to Missouri, biographical sketches of prominent Missouri lawyers such as William Henry Ashley, David Barton, Joshua Barton, Edward Bates, and Nathaniel Beverley Tucker, and his legal work in Berkeley and Jefferson counties, W. Va., and Winchester, Va. Conrad also discussed Indian relations in the territory of Missouri involving William Clarke, the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1829-1830, his opinions about the reasons for the Civil War and comments on life after the war, the Christian life and the Bible, morality of lawyers, and biographical sketches of John Marshall, John Peyton McGuire, and Henry Alexander Wise.

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Bates, Edward, 1793-1869

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U.S. senator, legislator, and jurist of Missouri. From the description of David Barton correspondence, 1829. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79455605 ...

Conrad, Daniel, 1771-1806.

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John Marshall (1755-1835) was born near Germantown, Prince William (currently Fauquier) County, Virginia on 24 September 1755 to parents Thomas Marshall and Mary Randolph Keith. From 1775-1781, Marshall served in the Continental Army and fought in the Revolutionary War. During the spring and summer of 1780, Marshall attended classes at the College of William and Mary and received his license to practice law. After the war, he moved to Richmond, Virginia and began his practice. Marshall married M...

Conrad, Rebecca Holmes, 1779-1835.

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Ashley, William Henry, 1778-1838

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Tucker, Beverley, 1784-1851

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Author and professor of law at the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va. From the description of Papers, 1836-1851; (bulk 1848-1851). (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 20460588 Author, Missouri circuit court judge. From the description of Letter to Littleton Waller Tazewell 1826 June 26. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 51928208 ...

McGuire, John Peyton, 1800-1869.

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Clarke, William, 1770-1838.

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Wise, Henry A. (Henry Alexander), 1806-1876

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American lawyer and politician; governor of Virginia. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Richmond, to President Buchanan, 1857 Mar. 20. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270588282 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Washington, to Thomas Teackle in Baltimore, 1841 Jan. 9. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270588600 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Richmond, to Col. T.H. Ellis, 1859 Aug. 1. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270588...