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He had a number of different jobs, in no particular order:

Split fence rails for neighbors

Worked as a clerk

Learned surveying and served as a deputy surveyor

Served as village postmaster

While living in Indiana he worked as a ferry man on the Ohio River

He crewed a flatboat to New Orleans

He served as a captain during the Black Hawk War in 1832

Served in the Illinois House of Representatives in the last half of the 1830s

Traveled as an attorney after 1836 to many towns throughout Illinois, including Chicago by the 1850s

Served one term in the United States House of Representatives

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