The Dermott news., 1918-02-21
J. R. Wilson for Prosecuting Attorney
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 studied during all of his spare time, frequently buring the midnight oil and by doing this outside study was able to complete the work ordinarily covered in the public and high school grades in four years and half of actual school work whereas the regular time for such work is twelve years.
 - At the age of l3 he was urged to attend mathematical school and on the day set the professor failed to show up, the boys of his own neighborhood urged him to take hold of the school and teach them. giving as reason that his special aptitude in that branch fully fitted him to do the work. Upon the promise of the pupils to be orderly and give no trouble in the discipline of the school, the work proceeded and the school was taught, resulting in satisfac tion to all of the pupils.
 He was licensed and began teaching a regular literary school at the age of l6. C. B. Colvin, former sheriff. T. H. Turner and w. w. St. John being the directors who made the first con tract. MT Wilson farmed during crop seasons till he was Is years of age, working at county saw mill at times when not actively engaged on the farm and working at gin at his own home during few seasons. After he began teaching, he continued to teach sum mer and winter until he had saved enough to begin q college course.
 He then entered the University of Arkansas and continued in that institu tion nearly a year. teaching in the sum mer to procure funds. The money de rived from teaching was supplemented during the college sessions by money earned at clerical work and sweeping the University building.
 In 1903 he took the l.. l.. D degree and in June. l90i he took the A. B. de gree graduating with high honors. talk ing off the best prizes offered in the institution. During his senior year he was Captain of Company B, large and strong Company in the lst battal- ion Just after Xmas of his senior year. he made the race and was elected to the Legislature. Again he taught in the schools of Bradley county, served in the Legislature of 1905 and was identified with some of the most i'm portant legislation of that session.
 After the adjournment he worked at soda fountain at nights and did office work in day time until the open ing of the law school in 1905. He then directed all of his energies to the ob taining of his legal education, doing great part of the work at nights earn ing all that he could in day time by keeping office for the late J II Harrod. at that time a very eminent lawyer in the State MT. Wilson was examined and admitted to practice in the Circuit and Chancery courts in December, 1905, at Little Rock Arkansas. He grad uated from the University Law school in June 1906. with the l.. l.. B degree taking the entire law course in one year. falling only 9-l3 of one per cent below the man who made the highest general average and that man had spent three years in doing this same work
 Mir. Wilson was admitted to prac- tice in the Supreme Court of Arkansas on June Huh. 1906. opened up an office and went to practicing on June 18th, 1906 with kirby's Digest and two or i three musty volumes of old text books as library, and a little pine table as his office fixtures and furniture. at the time owing Il considerable school debt,
 :" Since that time he has been actively engaged in the practice of his chosen profession. He has always been stud ent and did not stop burning the mid night lamp at the end of his school days, but has kept it up on through his legal career. He was admitted to prac- tice in the. Federal Courts some years | ago at TeXarkana and during all of these years he has had varied and eN- tenslve experience in the practice of the law. He has probably appeared in more cases in the Circuit and Chancery Courts of the State than any other man of his age He has been connected with and managed often times single handed, some of the most complicated litigations that have been tried in the courts in recent years, fighting much of this. litigation to a successful con cluslon in the Supreme Court. No lawyer of his age doing general prac- tice has tried more cases in the Su preme court. written more briefs in matters before that tribunal, and We have it on good authority that his bat ting average before the Supreme Court