Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-10-17
PASSED EXAMINATION.
Five Bright Young men Admitted 10 the Ken.
re5tc Bar, Yesterday.

Yesterday dswned upon five young men
WHO felt very uneasy all the forenoon and
mart of the afternoon. They had looked
forward to this time for several months, as
Yesterday was to decide whether or not they
would begin law practice. The law student
who has had the stick-to-itiveness to pei use
the dry books of legal facts for period of
tso years would naturally feel little an1-
in. on the day of his examination.
The examination of these young men
was ore of the hardest ever passed by any
stu ,ents ever admitted to the Kennebec
bar, which i, one of the most difficult to
mass in the State. The written examina-
ton consisted of l2l questions, and far
from easy at that. When the answers
had been written and the boys took
seats where the jury sits the lawyers, num-
bering about 80, gathered inside the railing
to listen, while Judge Whitehouse aske d
for the written answers. The examining
committee, Hon. A. NJ. Spear, Leslie c..
Cornish and F. E. Beane we're seated in
front of the applicants.
After the written examination there was
an hour of oral questioning, and then the
committee went out to talk it over, return
ing with happy verdict for boys. Con-
rratulations were then passed around and
the young men were complimented on going
through probably the most rigid examina-
ton ever given to anyone admitted to the
bar of this county.
A short biography Of these young men
will interest. Lewis A. Burleigh, the pres
ent city clerk of this city, was born in Lin
neus, and when two years of age his
parents moved to Bangor, where he attend
ed school. From there he came to Augusta,
where he has since made his
home. He is graduate of Bow
dom college, class of 81 ard
last June graduated from the Harvard
Law School. He is "a years of age.
+ NJ. Thompson was born in Union,
where his father is a member of the firm of
Wingate Lincoln & Co, carriage manu-
facturers. He attended school there and
then at the Maine Wesleyan Seminary,
from which he graduated. He has been
student in the law Office of Heath e Tuell
and is &c years of age. He was assistant
clerk of the House of Representatives in
1892, and is candidate for the same position
this winter.
Ewing w. Hamlin studied law with Rich
ard Stone, Esq a prominent Boston attor-
ney, and while in that city he was engaged
10 the patent soliciting business. He was
reporter of the Senate in this city
in 1892 and will probably be this coming
winter. He has studied law in the Office of
B,ker Baker & Staples of this city. His
age is 30 years.
Will C. Atkins of Gardiner, was born in
Halowel where he attended school ard
from there he went to Gardiner and gradu-
ated from the high school. He has studied
law in the Office of Hon. o. B. Clason, now
mayor of that city. His father is in the
boot and shoe business in Gardiner. Mr..
Atkins is q years of age and now Gardiner
and Kennebec county can hoist the flag and
cry of having the youngest lawyer in Maize
and bright one, too, as his examination
showed.
W. d. Whitney was born in Gardiner
and has always lived there and graduated
from the high school. He is also gradu-
ate of the Boston University Law school, is
2S years of age and has studied law in Spear
& Andrews office in Gardiner.
Where will they settle? Mr.. Burleigh
will become partner with Joseph William
son, Jr., and Mr.. Adkins will probably be-
come partner with o. B. Clason. Mr..
Whitney will locate ia Gardiner, perhaps
with Spear & Andrews. Mr.. Hamlin will
begin business in Augusta, and as yet MIR.
Thompson has not decided where he will
lnpate