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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