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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