He moved to Cincinnati, and then to Brookville, Indiana, and operated a grist mill.
He was admitted to the bar and began practice in Brookville, Indiana.
Test was the maternal grandfather of author and American Civil War Union Army Major General Lew Wallace, the son of Indiana lawyer and politician David Wallace and Test's daughter Esther.
His daughter Mary was the wife of James Rariden, a fellow U.S. Representative from Indiana.
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