Millard Fillmore was born in a frontier cabin in Cayuga county, New York, on Jan. 7, 1800. He was the second child and the first of five sons of Nathaniel and Phoebe Millard Fillmore. The family was miserably poor, and Fillmore was almost entirely self-educated. Deeply wanting an education, Millard Fillmore, enrolled in an academy at New Hope, New York, where he met his future wife, Abigail Powers. In that same year Fillmore’s father obtained a clerkship for him in the office of Judge Walter Wood in Montville, NY, where he began the study of law. During the next few years Fillmore taught school from time to time and also clerked in a Buffalo law firm. He was admitted to the bar in 1823. After setting up a law office in East Aurora near Buffalo, he married Miss Powers in1826. As his legal business expanded he took on a student clerk in his office, his future l....

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