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LETTER GIVING SKETCH OF FREDERICK BATES.4
employment as permanent business, but intended to return, as soon as he was able, to the study and practice of his profession. In a few years he made a little capital, and went into trade, as a store keeper in Detroit, diligently using his spare time in refreshing and extending his law study. He made some money, as a merchant, but lost the greater part of it by fire, which consumed his house and goods.
That, I think, was the lucky turn of his life, for it gave him a fair occasion, and almost forced him, to quit a business which
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