Editing Allen G. Thurman (section)

==Early years==
Allen Granberry Thurman was born in [[Lynchburg, Virginia]], to Pleasant Thurman and Mary Granberry Allen Thurman. Both of his parents were [[education|teachers]]; his father also a [[Methodist]] minister. In 1815, his parents [[manumission|emancipated]] their slaves and moved to [[Chillicothe, Ohio]]. He attended Chillicothe Academy, an academy run by his mother, and then studied law as an apprentice to his uncle, [[William Allen (governor)|William Allen]] (who later became a senator from Ohio). At the age of eighteen, Thurman worked on a land survey, and at twenty-one became private secretary to the [[Governor of Ohio]], [[Robert Lucas (governor)|Robert Lucas]]. In 1835 he was admitted to the Ohio bar and became his uncle's law partner. In 1837 his uncle entered the Senate.