Everybody said he would never make a good lawyer because he was too honest.

He came to my shop one day, after he had been here five or six months, and said he had a notion to quit studying law and learn carpentering.

He thought there was more need of carpenters out here than lawyers." Soon after Lincoln's settlement in Springfield, he formed a law partnership with Major John T.Stuart, whom he had known for some years and who already had a good position at the bar.

This partnership began, according to the statement of Major Stuart, on April 27, 1837.

It continued just four years, when it was dissolved, and Lincoln and Judge Stephen T.Logan became partners.