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Isaac Atwater (1818-1906)

Isaac Atwater served as associate justice on the first Minnesota Supreme Court following statehood. He was a prominent lawyer in St. Anthony and Minneapolis before and after his service on the court.

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John Harrison Brown (1824-1890)

John H. Brown served as a judge in the Twelfth Judicial District from March 13, 1875, to his death on January 20, 1890.

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Charles E. Flandrau: "Judge Isaac Atwater." (1888)

Isaac Atwater arrived in Minnesota in 1850, at the age of 32, and died here in 1906. He served on the first supreme court following statehood. He was elected in 1857, and served from 1858 to mid-1864, when he resigned.
The following profile of Atwater was written by his friend and colleague, Charles E. Flandrau. It was published in the "Magazine of Western History" in July, 1888.

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Charles E. Flandrau: "The Judge." (1895)

At the height of the populist revolt in the 1890s, when the judiciary was under siege, Charles E. Flandrau published this brief essay on how judges should be selected. It appeared in the May, 1895, issue of "The Minnesota Law Journal."

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Lucius F. Hubbard & Return I. Holcombe: "Judicial System." (1908)

This article is an important resource because it lists the names and years of service of all men who served on the supreme court from statehood to the early twentieth century, the clerks and reporters of the supreme court, and the judges of the nineteen judicial districts. It appeared as a chapter in a multi-volume history of Minnesota which was edited by Lucius F. Hubbard and Rerturn I. Holcombe, and published in 1908.

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Loren Warren Collins: "An Incomplete History of the Establishment of Courts in Minnesota." (1912)

The author of this paper was Loren Warren Collins, who served as associate justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court from 1887 to 1904. He died before he could finish it. It was to be a longer, written version of a speech he gave in 1911 to the Hennepin County Bar Association on the history of the bench and bar in Minnesota. His son, Louis L. Collins, gave a draft of the paper containing his father's handwritten additions and corrections to the Minnesota Historical Society on January 9, 1913.
Of special interest are Collins's comments on the brief tenure of Chief Justice Henry Hayner, the forgotten Justice John Pettit, the causes of the establishment of the Court of Common Pleas in Ramsey County in 1867 and in Hennepin County in 1872, and the evolution of judicial districts in nineteenth century Minnesota.

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Edwin Ames Jaggard: "William Mitchell." (1909)

William Mitchell served as associate justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court from 1881 to 1900.

This article appeared first as a chapter in the eighth and final volume of "Great American Lawyers," a set of profiles of famous judges and lawyers in nineteenth century America, edited by William Draper Lewis, Dean of the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and published in 1909. The author of this article is Edwin Ames Jaggard, who served as Associate Justice on the same court from 1905 to 1911.

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"Judge Chatfield's First Court Session in Winona County." (1884)

This article describes Judge Andrew Chatfield's first court session on June 28, 1853, in Winona. It appeared first in a history of Wabasha and Winona Counties published in 1884.

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Austin H. Young (1830-1905)

Austin H. Young served as a judge in Hennepin County for over eighteen years, initially on the Court of Common Pleas from 1872 to 1877, then on the District Court from 1877 to 1890, when he was defeated for reelection. He died on February 13, 1905.

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Terrence M. Walters: "Remembering Judge Foley" (2002).

Daniel F. Foley (1921-2002) received his B.A. from St. Thomas College, LL.B from Fordham University, and LL.D. from Mexican Academy of International Law. A World War II veteran, he served as National Commander of The American Legion, 1963-1964. He was in private practice in Wabasha from 1948 to 1966, when he was appointed to the Third Judicial District bench. He was reelected three times. In 1983, he was appointed to the newly established Minnesota Court of Appeals and served until 1991, when he retired---technically, that is, because he still sat on panels of the court right up to his death on August 17, 2002.

In November 2002, Terry Walters, a Rochester lawyer who had appeared many times before the judge, published a tribute to him in "Bench and Bar of Minnesota."

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