Original sentence: He studied law, was admitted to the Delaware Bar and commenced its practice in Dover in 1840.Smithers was born in Dover, Delaware and graduated from Lafayette College in Pennsylvania in 1836
Edited sentence: Earning his undergraduate degree at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania in 1836, he entered the law department of Dickinson College, in Carlisle, Pennsylvania with the class of 1840.He was admitted to the Delaware Bar in 1841 and commenced its practice in Dover.He was educated at Ezra Scovell's school in Dover and then at the West Nottingham Academy under Rev.James Magraw.Smithers was born in Dover, Delaware, the son of the county prothonotary, Nathaniel and Susan Fisher Barratt Smithers