Fillmore Administration - Education
Education
Because his parents were poor and lived on the frontier, Fillmore had little formal schooling. Young Fillmore had to help the family survive in a harsh environment. As a boy, Fillmore did learn to read, but there was not much to read except the Bible and a few spelling and reading books. When at the age of 17 his neighbors organized a circulation library, Fillmore eagerly participated. At 19 he enrolled in the Academy of Good Hope in New Hope, New York. It was a small institution that did not compare to the more prestigious schools on the U.S. East Coast.
Soon Millard Fillmore was on his way to becoming a lawyer. He never attended a law school, but he learned by studying and working in the office of County Judge Walter Wood in Montville, New York, and later in the office of lawyers Asa Rice and Joseph Clary in Buffalo, New York. In 1823 Fillmore formally became a lawyer when he was admitted to the bar.
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