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STORY OF ANOTHER PIONEER BY C. B. STEBBINS
June 7, 1882.
He had now been for his family, and at Syracuse the news met him that his son was dead. This I learned when I reached Batavia in the evening of Saturday. His apparent moroseness was from his agony, and effort to keep the news from his wife and daughter till the fatigue of their journey should be over.
At Batavia we all stopped for the night. I supposed the other passengers would go on in the morning, but found that Mr. Kevins would not travel Sunday, though within thirty miles of home; so he and I spent the Sabbath together, and attended services at an Episcopal church. Some of the sermon is still fresh in my memory.
We reached Buffalo, Monday evening, the last day of November. I had
been just a week on the way, traveling five days and three nights; one night on the steamboat, one on the canal boat, and one by stage. The next morning I w«nt to the boat. Steam was up, but the wind was so strong steam was finally let off, and not another boat left till the middle of the next May. The result was, that I spent the winter in Mr. Nevin's office, in most diligent study of law. In reading ten thousand pages, I learned just enough to form some idea of the immeasurable magnitude of the subject, and decided not to spoil a good mechanic for the doubtful chance of eminence in the legal profession.
A warm friendship soon existed between Mr. Nevins and myself, and I cannot refrain from alluding to his subsequent history.
Michigan
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