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Ford, Paul Leicester, 1865-1902

"The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him"

Lapham told his
trustees, "and is getting to be a large depositor himself."
Peter began to find help necessary, and took a partner. He did this at
the suggestion of Ogden Ogden, who had concluded his clerkship, and who
said to Peter:
"I have a lot of friends who promise me their work. I don't know how
much it will be, but I should like to try it with you. Of course, yours
is the bigger practice, but we can arrange that."
So after considerable discussion, the sign on Peter's door became
"Stirling and Ogden," and the firm blossomed out with an office boy--one
of Peter's original "angle" friends, now six years older than when Peter
and he had first met.
Ogden's friends did materialize, and brought good paying cases. As the
city, referee, corporation and bank work increased, their joint practice
needed more help, and Ray Rivington was, on Ogden's request, taken in.
"He doesn't get on with his law studies, though he pretends to work over
them hard. In fact he'll never be a good lawyer.


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