How it came to pass that man, originally taught, as we doubt not he was, to know and to worship the true Jehovah, is found, at so early a period of his history, a worshiper of baser objects, it is foreign to our present purpose to inquire.

There Simon was educated at the Latin school and studied the Greco-Roman classics. Simon Greenleaf (December 5 1783 – October 6 1853) American lawyer and jurist was born at Newburyport Massachusetts. In 1801 he joined the law office of Ezekiel Whitman (the later Chief Justice of Maine) and in 1806 was admitted to the Cumberland County bar as a legal practitioner.