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��"The decade from 1845 to 1855 was the golden age of the Mansfield bar, and a more brilliant galaxy of lawyers, probably, was never congregated in a single city in Ohio. We of a later generation can hardly hope to attain to the stature of these giants of our pioneer times.

" Doubtless we have good lawyers now, and, in special departments, better law^-ers ; but as

��general practitioners, our predecessors, who grew up in pioneer times, were larger men as a whole.

"Such lawyers as Thomas Ewing, Sr., old Peter Hitchcock and Edwin M. Stanton were the products of pioneer soil, and such men do not seem to grow in this day and genera- tion."

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