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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1, Chapter 8: early professional life.—September, 1834, to December, 1837.—Age, 23-26. (search)
athered at this period several lawyers, since well known, and some who were destined to a permanent fame. On the same floor with Sumner and Hillard were Theophilus Parsons, Rufus Choate, Theophilus and Peleg W. Chandler; and later John A. Andrew, afterwards Governor of the Commonwealth. On the third floor were Horace Mann, Edward G. Loring, and Luther S. Gushing. When Hillard left the building, in 1856, having previously removed to another room, he wrote in verse a graceful Farewell to Number Four, which called forth some happy rejoinders. Law Reporter, March, 1856, Vol. XVIII. p. 653. Sumner and Cushing Cushing was the well-known author of works on Parliamentary Law. rented together a single lodging-room on the third floor of the Brooks Building. Sumner took his meals at a restaurant—Kenfield's, on Wilson's Lane. Some two years later he changed his lodgings to the Albion, and dined there or at the Tremont. The culture and friendliness of Hillard and Sumner attracte