In 1908, Henry B. Hudson, a journalist-turned-publisher, edited and published "A Half Century of Minneapolis," a collection of short, superficial articles on the city's past. It was financed by subscription.
The chapter on the city's bench and bar had a few pages on early lawyers and the courthouse, lists of judges who served on the federal, district and municipal courts, and short sections on early bar associations and the University of Minnesota's law department, which had opened in 1889. It concluded with "biographical sketches" of the following 66 lawyers and judges:
Howard S. Abbott,
Charles S. Albert,
Alexander T. Ankeny,
Ludvig Arctander,
Charles D. Austin,
Winfield W. Bardwell,
John T. Baxter,
George M. Bleecker,
Alfred H. Bright,
Frederick V. Brown,
Rome G. Brown,
Charles S. Cairns,
Frank H. Carleton,
Sampson R. Child,
Clarence H. Childs,
Jay W. Crane,
Willard R. Cray,
Henry Deutsch,
John I. Dille,
Fred B. Dodge,
William S. Dwinnell,
William W. McNair,
Edward C. Gale,
Henry J. Gjertsen,
William E. Hale,
Albert H. Hall,
Alexander M. Harrison,
Wendell Hertig,
Anson B. Jackson,
Colin C. Joslyn,
Martin B. Koon,
Charles G. Laybourn,
Claude B. Leonard,
George A. Lyon,
Alexander McCune,
William R. Morris,
Robert G. Morrison,
John F. Nichols,
William S. Pattee,
Edmund A. Prendergast,
Harlan P. Roberts,
William P. Roberts,
Chelsea J. Rockwood,
Frederick W. Reed,
Sampson A. Reed,
F. W. Root,
George W. Seevers,
Frank W. Shaw,
Arthur W. Selover,
James D. Shearer,
Edward E. Smith,
George R. Smith,
Seagrave Smith,
John D. Smith,
Fred B. Snyder,
John C. Sweet,
Charles T. Thompson,
Charles J. Traxler,
Charles J. Tryon,
Jesse Van Valkenburg,
Charles E. Vanderburgh,
George P. Wilson,
James F. Williamson,
Fred B. Wright,
Edward F. Waite,
Washington Yale, Jr.
For the deceased, the sketch was a memorial placed by his family; for the rest, it was an advertisement or vanity portrait; for the historian, each is a source of information.
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