Excerpt from Disciples of Christ in Texas: A Partial History of Disciples of Christ in Texas During the Past Forty-One Years, Together With Personal Remembrances of Both the Living and the Dead, Addresses, Forms, Etc Soon after returning to Kentucky, in Mount Vernon and Campbellsville, he read law, and in the latter place was examined in open court and received license to practice in the courts of that State He settled in Burksville, and devoted himself to the practice of law for about four years. With high ideals, careful preparation and indomitable energy he began what gave promise of becoming a remarkably successful career in his chosen calling. His friends entertained hopes, and no doubt the young lawyer himself dreamed dreams, of po litical preferment and patriotic service. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.