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Excerpt from Chicago Bar Association Lectures, Vol. 1: I. Recollections of Early Chicago and the Illinois Bar; II. Recollections of the Bench and Bar of Central Illinois; III. The Lawyer as a Pioneer The name of Baker has been mentioned. Let me add a few words in regard to him. An anecdote, incredible, but yet indic ative of his intense ambition and therefore characteristic, has been often told around the mess-table of the early circuit-riders and judges of Central Illinois. It is said that soon after he settled in Springfield, a friend found him seated on a fallen tree in a grove near that place, weeping very bitterly. On being pressed to tell the cause of his grief, he said, I have been reading the Constitution of the United States, and I find a provision in it. 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.