Viewing Obituaries/Memorials Category (84) found:Traverse County Bar Memorials (1949).At a special session of the Traverse County District Court on November 14, 1949, the county bar presented memorials to the following:
"Memorials to Judges of the Sixth Judicial District" (1907).On November 13, 1907, Judge Lorin Cray presided over a special session of the District Court in Mankato to honor the seven judges who had served in the Sixth Judicial District since statehood: Lewis Branson, who served 1858 to 1864, Horace Austin, 1865 to 1869, M. G. Hanscome, in 1869, Franklin W. ... Memorials to deceased members of the Eleventh Judicial District Bar Association delivered in St. Louis County District Court (1948).This is a transcript of proceedings in St. Louis County District Court on January 7, 1948, when the Eleventh Judicial District Bar Association delivered memorials to nine lawyers and one judge who died the previous year. The men commemorated were Frank Crassweller, Ralph E. Burdick, Henry Paull, ... Memorials to Deceased Members of the Fillmore County Bar (1948).This is a transcript of memorial proceedings in Fillmore County District Court on April 12, 1948, for four lawyers, George W. Bartle, Samuel C. Pattridge, J. C. White, and Henry A. Larson, and the clerk of court, Carl Johnson. ... John R. Jones (1828-1900).In the spring of 1855 John Robinson Jones, a lawyer, moved to the village of Chatfield in Fillmore County, Minnesota, and began practicing law. Except for three years in the army during the War, he remained in Chatfield practicing law and Democratic politics for the rest of his life. He had been ... Robert R. Hedenberg (1854-1917).In 1867 Robert Reinhart Hedenberg arrived in Minnesota with his family of ten. Within a few months eight had died. Several years later his mother died, leaving him alone in the new world. He persevered. He was admitted to the bar in 1879 and moved to St. Vincent in Kittson County. That year he was... Frank E. Dougherty (1891-1956).Except for two years in the Army during the First World War, Frank Edward Dougherty practiced law in Fairmont, Minnesota from 1915 until his death on February 6, 1956. He was city attorney for many years and, while an ardent Republican, showed no interest in running for office, until 1938, when he ... Andrew J. Daley (1857-1918).A. J. Daley practiced law in Luverne, Minnesota, from his admission to the bar in April 1891 to his death in October 1918, at age sixty-one. His obituary in the Rock County Herald affirmed his prominence in the community:
Douglas A. Hedin, "The Lawyers' Cemetery."This article is dedicated to authors of memorials to members of the bar. ... Scott County Bar Memorials: 1942.On March 23, 1942, memorial proceedings were held in the Scott County Court House, Shakopee, for eight lawyers:
Howard M. Atkins (1838-1893).Eighteen-year-old Howard Atkins travelled from Maine to Mille Lacs County, Minnesota Territory, in 1856 to stake a claim. In late 1859 he went to Illinois to study law and teach school; his clerkship finished he moved to Princeton, Minnesota, and was admitted to the Minnesota bar in 1862. He practi... 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. ... Leslie H. Bailey (1860-1905).Two months after the death of Leslie H. Bailey on March 12, 1905, at age 45, the Beltrami County Bar Association convened in district court to present memorial resolutions to him. The memorial committee wrote:
Charles O. Baldwin (1861-1932).Admitted to the bar on October 14, 1887, Charles Oliver Baldwin practiced law in Duluth for the next forty-five years. Initially he practiced with Seward D. Allen and Charles M. Parkhurst, later with Arthur Crassweller and his brother Albert Baldwin. By the early 1920s, his firm, Baldwin, Baldwin, ... John Harvey Baldwin (1851-1924).John H. Baldwin was admitted to the Indiana bar in 1876, at age twenty-five. After practicing law in Indiana for six years, he moved to South Dakota, where he practiced for eighteen years. In 1900, at the age of forty-nine, he and his family relocated again, this time to Frazee, a village in Becke... George L. Bargen (1900-1955).George L. Bargen practiced law in Bemidji for almost thirty years. He died on December 30, 1955, at the age of 55. A memorial service was held for him in the Beltrami County District Court on October 1, 1956. This is a transcript of those proceedings. ... John O. Barke (1850-1921).John O. Barke lived his first twenty years in Norway. After his family emigrated in 1870, he spent the next ten years working and attending various colleges, eventually graduating from the law department of Drake University in 1880. He promptly moved to Fergus Falls, where he practiced until death... Henry F. Barker (1850-1910).In July 1878, Henry Freeman Barker settled in the village of Cambridge. He was twenty-eight years old, and a member of the New York bar. That fall he was elected Isanti County attorney, a post he would hold sixteen years. He practiced with his brother until 1883, when the latter died; thereafter ... Judge Frank C. Barnes (1889-1963).For a quarter century, Frank Barnes was the municipal court judge in Fergus Falls, and for another decade judge of probate and juvenile court. He died on December 11, 1963, the last day of his 73rd year. ... Clyde F. Bort (1879-1935).After graduating high school in Cannon Falls, Clyde Bort worked as a salesman for twenty years. But he harbored an ambition to become a lawyer. In his late 30s, he attended night law school, graduated in 1920, and began practicing his new profession. But not for long. He died on May 23, 1935, at... Charles G. Bowdish (1870-1922).Charles Bowdish was appointed court reporter of the Eighth Judicial District on "the evening before Christmas night, 1904," and held that post until his death on February 22, 1922, at the age of 52. On May 8, 1922, the Bar of the Eighth Judicial District presented memorials to him in McLeod County ... James A. Brown (1853-1929).In 1886, after a three year apprenticeship, James Brown, a native New Yorker, was admitted to the bar in Otter Tail County. He formed a partnership with William L. Parsons, another recent arrival in Fergus Falls. Parsons & Brown soon became one of the most prominent law firms in the western part of... Charles E. Callaghan (1863-1926).In 1898, Charles Elwin Callaghan and George Granger formed a law firm that soon became one of the most successful in southwestern Minnesota. It dissolved in 1915, when Granger was appointed to the district court bench, a post he held only two years before resigning. Callaghan was then appointed to ... Ernest W. Campbell (1869-1933).In 1899, Ernest Wells Campbell, a graduate of Yale Law School and a member of the Minnesota bar, was discharged from the Army after serving in the Spanish American War, began practicing law in Litchfield, and was appointed a Referee in Bankruptcy. For the next three decades he practiced law, held m... Edwin H. Canfield (1855-1936).Edwin Canfield arrived with his wife and two daughters in Luverne in June 1881, was admitted to the bar the next month, and died there 55 years later. In the intervening five decades, he built a substantial law practice and acquired a reputation for "brilliance" at the bar. He also filled many of ... Judge Charles M. Cory (1866-1919).Charles Morton Cory was elected Probate Judge of Nobles County in 1892 and re-elected thirteen times thereafter. He died in September 27, 1919, at age fifty three, having spent half his life on the bench. According to his obituary in the Worthington Globe:
William N. Davidson (1833-1920).In 1878, William N. Davidson moved to Luverne, the seat of Rock County in southwestern Minnesota. There he practiced law, served as attorney for the city and county, and was county surveyor for thirty years.
Clark Bell: "Memorial to Cushman Kellogg Davis." (1900)At the annual meeting of the Medico-Legal Society on December 19, 1900, Clark Bell, the President of the Society and a New York lawyer, read a tribute to Senator Cushman Kellogg Davis, who had died in St. Paul a month earlier. It was subsequently printed in "The Medico-Legal Journal." ... George F. Hoar: "Cushman Kellogg Davis." (1903)Cushman K. Davis served as U. S. Senator from Minnesota from 1887 to November 27, 1900, when he died in St. Paul.
Wallace H. Davis (1870-1920).A graduate of Amherst College and Harvard Law School, Wallace H. Davis was an officer and house counsel for the David P. Jones & Company, a real estate and investment company in Minneapolis, from 1900 to his death on December 7, 1920, at age fifty. A tribute in the Amherst Graduates Quarterly concl... William F. Donohue (1862-1932).After graduating the University of Minnesota Law Department in June 1896, William Donohue moved to Melrose, a small town in Stearns County, where he formed a partnership with William J. Stephens, a law school classmate. He threw himself into civic activities, served as city attorney, president of t... Christian G. Dosland (1872-1945).Armed with two law degrees, Christian Dosland began practicing law in Moorhead in 1899. In the following decades he attracted a corporate clientele that must have been the envy of the local bar, while devoting considerable time to civic development and improvement. He served two terms as Clay Count... Daniel H. Dustin - U. S. Attorney (1854).Daniel Dustin served as United States Attorney for Minnesota Territory in 1853-1854. Little is know about his background, other than that he was a native New Yorker. In early July 1854, he suddenly died. The Daily Pioneer newspaper published his obituary, a tribute from a local fraternal society, ... Arch R. English (1888-1963).Arch English graduated from the Tracy High School in 1907, and began reading law in the offices of "Nat" J. Robinson. Three years later, at age twenty-one, he was admitted to the bar. For the next half century, he practiced law in Tracy. When he died in September 5, 1963, at age seventy-four, the ... 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 19... Jacob Garon (1897-1942).Emigrates from Lithuania, the Garon family settled in Duluth around the turn of the century. After graduating Duluth Central High School, Jacob joined his father in the family watch-supply business. He served in the U. S. Army during the First World War, and then headed the Minneapolis branch of t... Henry C. Grass (1856-1906).Henry Clinton Grass was admitted to the bar in 1878, set up shop in Currie, a village in Murray County, and practiced there until 1891, when he and his family moved to Slayton, the county seat. There he re-established his practice, served ten years as county attorney, two terms as state representat... John E. Green (1865-1952).Upon graduating the University of Minnesota College of Law in 1896, John Edward Green returned to Carleton, where he had taught and been the superintendent of schools. He lived and practiced law in Carleton for the next half century, raised his family, participated in community affairs, belonged to ... George A. Heisey (1893-1990).George Heisey served as a Bankruptcy Referee from 1945 to 1970, when he retired. He died on February 10, 1990, and a few months later a tribute to him was delivered at the annual bar memorial session of the Hennepin County Bar Association by Thomas Lovett and Connor Schmid. ... John A. Hendricks (1865-1938).John Albert Hendricks graduated the University of Minnesota College of law in 1893, was admitted to the bar, and set up shop in Sacred Heart, Minnesota. In early 1895 he moved to Fosston, a small town in Polk County in northwestern Minnesota. There he carried on a general practice that included col... Lloyd J. Hetland (1892-1947).Memorial proceedings for Lloyd J. Hetland, who served as Norman County attorney from 1927 to his death in 1947, were held in the district court in the village of Ada on April 28, 1947. ... Frederick Hooker (1845-1893)Frederick Hooker served as a judge on the Hennepin County District Court from 1888 until his death on September 11, 1893.
John W. Hopp (1868-1931).John W. Hopp practiced law in Preston, Minnesota, the seat of Fillmore County, for forty years following his graduation from the University of Minnesota College of Law in 1891. Like many lawyers of this period he became fully engaged in public service besides building a law practice. He served as ... Two Tributes to Justice Jaggard (1911).Edwin Ames Jaggard, Associate Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court, died in Bermuda on February 13, 1911, at the age of 51. Tributes to him appeared on page 584 of the April 1911, issue of "Case and Comment," and on page 4 of the "Annual Bulletin" of the ABA's Comparative Law Bureau, published on... "Chief Justice Richard A. Jones (1821-1888)."Special trains took over 400 mourners from 21 towns to the funeral of the Chief Justice in Rochester on August 26, 1888. There government offices and businesses were closed. Though he had moved to Oregon two years before, he was remembered as being without equal in the bar of Olmsted County. His ... Eli B. Larson (1858-1893).Eli B. Larson, the County Attorney of Norman County, died at his home of typhoid fever in the evening of July 29, 1893. He was 34 years old. The Norman County Herald published his obituary:
Judge Frank W. Lyon (1856-1921).Like many other lawyers in the nineteenth century, Frank Lyon was born, educated and read law in another state before he removed to Minnesota. He graduated Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois, in 1878, apprenticed in Peoria, was admitted to the Illinois bar, and practiced four years in Toulon, his ... John W. Mason (1846-1927).John W. Mason was a pioneer lawyer in Otter Tail County, the first mayor of Fergus Falls, the first president of the city's board of education, public speaker, civic leader, state legislator, a successful railroad lawyer, and county historian. A mammoth, two volume history of the county, which he e... Chauncey C. McCarthy (1856-1932).Chauncey C. McCarthy practiced law in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, for forty years. He was renowned for his eloquence at political rallies as well as his community service. After he died on December 20, 1932, at age seventy-six, the Grand Rapids Herald-Review recalled his "uncompromising integrity. Mo... Robert H. McClelland (1844-1922).A civil war veteran, Robert Henry McClelland taught school for years, read law, was admitted to the bar in 1874, practiced in Jordan, Scott County, for a decade, and finally settled in Glencoe, the seat of McLeod County in 1886. There he practiced law with Cyril Tifft, a future district court judge... Cyrus Brady McCune (1850-1920).A graduate of Princeton University and a member of the Indiana bar, Cyrus McCune moved to Benson, Minnesota in 1884, and began practicing law with Walter A. Foland. They shared an interest in newspaper publishing and founded the "Benson Times." Their association lasted over two decades, ending o... Elmer E. McDonald (1861-1924).In 1903, after practicing law in St. Paul for almost two decades, Elmer Ellsworth McDonald moved to Bemidji to practice with Leslie H. Bailey, a noted trial lawyer. After Bayley's death two years later, he remained in Bemidji, built a thriving law practice and immersed himself in community affairs.... Judge Arba K. Maynard (1803-1894).Arba K. Maynard held several minor judicial posts in New York before moving to Le Sueur, Minnesota, in 1864. Though he later served as justice of the peace, the "Judge" did not practice law very much in Minnesota, becoming instead a farmer and land speculator. He also entered politics. He served o... Arthur A. Miller (1851-1926).Arthur A. Miller practiced law in Crookston, the seat of Polk County, Minnesota from 1888 to death at age seventy-four in 1926. He also bought farms and invested in several banks in the region. Perhaps his most important case was Martin v. Augedahl, 247 U.S. 142 (1918), where a divided U. S. Supre... John H. Niles (1857-1913).John Henry Niles opened a law office in Anoka in the summer of 1883. At a time when most lawyers in small towns were general practitioners, he began to specialize in abstracting titles to real estate. He became such a proficient abstractor that he could boast in 1900 that "for many years he has had... John T. O'Connell (1882-1953).John T. O'Donnell joined the Minneapolis City Attorney's office in 1911, when he was twenty-nine years old. Over the decades he specialized in defending workers compensation and damage claims against the city. He was promoted from assistant to first assistant to City Attorney in 1947. Because of... William F. Odell (1878-1956).William Odell graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1900, then studied law with his father in Chaska until 1904, when he was admitted to the bar. He moved to Sibley County, and was elected County Attorney. In 1914, he returned to Carver County, where he practiced until his death on March 19... Carl Oscar Alexius Olson (1872-1929).Born in Sweden in 1872, Alexius Olson arrived in Minnesota at age two. He grew up in Minneapolis, graduated North High School in 1891, and enrolled in the University of Minnesota the next year. He earned a B.S. degree in 1895, a LL.B. in 1896, and a LL.M. in 1897. In 1898, while practicing law, he ... William L. Parsons (1858-1939).William L. Parsons arrived in Fergus Falls in 1882 to practice law. He was twenty-fours years old and already a member of the New York bar. In 1886, he formed a partnership with James A. Brown, and their firm soon became one of the most prominent in the area. He served as a Federal Referee of Bankr... Charles W. Quandt (1876-1954).Charles Quandt graduated from the University of Minnesota Law School in 1900, at the age of 24. For the next 53 years, he practiced law in Winthrop, Sibley County. He died on January 22, 1954, and on October 24th of the following year, a committee of the bar of the Eighth Judicial District presen... Thomas H. Quinn, Sr. (1854-1915).Thomas Quinn was known to his contemporaries as an "upbuilder" of the city of Faribault where he lived, raised his family and practiced law for almost fifty years. He was so highly respected that the mayor ordered an hour of official mourning to coincide with his funeral on December 30, 1915.
Thomas H. Quinn, Jr. (1898-1946).Thomas Quinn Jr., graduated from the St. Paul College of Law in 1919, almost but not quite age twenty-one. He had to wait six months before he was admitted to the bar on November 18, 1919, two days after his birthday. He was in a hurry. Public service and Democratic politics were fixtures in his ... William J. Quinn (1889-1932).William J. Quinn graduated from the St. Paul College of Law in 1911, at the age of 22. Aside from a partnership in 1928-9, he "always preferred the individual way of practicing law." In court he was a "feared adversary" while outside he was active in the Democratic party. He was an ardent support... Dan E. Richter (1869-1935).Daniel E. Richter was a lawyer, journalist and political activist in Minnesota, North Dakota and Wisconsin from the 1890s to the mid-1930s. He was admitted to the Minnesota bar in 1890, practiced law briefly in North Dakota, edited a newspaper in Wisconsin while practicing law, went back to North D... Net J. Robinson (1872-1927).Net James Robinson, age twenty-eight, was admitted to the bar on June 8, 1900, after graduating the Minnesota Law Department. He began practicing in his hometown, Tracy, the seat of Lyon County. Inevitably, it seems, he was drawn to public affairs and local business matters. Twice he was elected ... John T. Rohwedder (1896-1957).John Rohwedder practiced law in Minneapolis for thirty years but it was his life outside the courtroom, away from the office that may have impressed his colleagues, friends and family the most.
Joseph A. Ross (1829-1913).Joseph Augustus Ross was Mille Lacs County Attorney for twenty-six years. He died on April 2, 1913, at age eighty-two. The following week the county bar presented a memorial to him in district court. About him it was said: "As a man Mr. Ross was the soul of honor. He was absolutely incorruptible... William W. Rossman (1829-1906).In late 1870, forty-one year old William Becker moved with his family to Becker County, staked out a homestead near Detroit, the county seat, and hung his shingle. The next year he was made Justice of the Peace, and was known thereafter as "Judge" or "Squire." He served in that post for the next t... Joseph A. Sawyer (1846-1918).Joseph A. Sawyer practiced law in Owatonna from 1880 to death on June 16, 1916, at age seventy-one. In a memorial delivered at the annual convention of the Minnesota State Bar Association later that year, he was recalled:
Sarah Roslyn Gensler Schwartz (1901-1942).In 1903, two-year old Sarah Gensler emigrated from Austria with her parents to Minneapolis, where she was educated in the public schools. Ambitious, she attended the Minnesota College of Law, graduated at the top of her class in 1922, and was admitted to the bar on September 5, 1922. After her marr... Harold Goodsir Simpson (1890-1939).In 1917, a year after graduating the University of Minnesota Law School, Harold Simpson enlisted in the aviation service of the U. S. Army. Mustered out after the armistice, he began practice in Minneapolis. He died on August 15, 1939, at age forty-nine. Sometime thereafter the Hennepin County B... Judge Dryden Smith (1826-1899).A "resolution of respect and condolence" for Dryden Smith, a former probate judge who died on February 22, 1899, a few weeks short of his seventy-third birthday, was filed by a committee of the Fillmore County bar with the district court on April 20, 1899. ... G. Harvey Snyder, Sr. (1878-1939).Glyde Harvey Snyder was admitted to the Minnesota bar in 1915, at age thirty-six. He became an associate of John E. Tappan, a financial services visionary who had started Investors Syndicate. It was a major client of Tappan & Snyder. After they parted, he worked with other lawyers in Minneapolis.... Marion S. Stevens (1854-1936).Marion Seldon Stevens practiced law in Graceville, a village in Big Stone County, from 1879 to his retirement in the early 1930s. He was, as expected of lawyers in small towns in those days, active in his community. He served as mayor of the village, on its charter commission, and in many committe... Azro A. Stone (1840-1906).After serving three years in the Second Minnesota Regiment, Asa Stone, as he was familiarly called, returned to St. Peter, was elected sheriff, and later appointed clerk of the district court. Meanwhile he studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1874. He formed a partnership with Sumner Ladd t... Henry N. Swanstrom (1890-1938).After graduating the University of Minnesota in 1908, Henry Swanstrom started a real estate business. He worked it the next quarter century, even while attending the Minnesota College of Law, from which he graduated in 1918. Even after being admitted to the bar, he devoted his energies (and knowled... John Elliott Tappan (1870-1957).After he was admitted to Minnesota bar on June 5, 1896, John Elliott Tappan began practicing law in Minneapolis and continued to manage Investors Syndicate, a corporation he had already organized. It was a major client of his law firms in the next three decades, and would evolve into Investors Dive... Adelbert R. Taylor (1864-1939).After graduating in 1893 from the University of Minnesota's College of Law, Adelbert R. Taylor practiced law in Minneapolis until his death on June 14, 1939, at age seventy-four. The following year, Charles H. Davis delivered a brief memorial to him in District Court on behalf of the Hennepin Count... Edward T. Teitsworth (1864-1942).After graduating Depauw University in 1889, Edward Thompson Teitsworth read law. He was admitted to the Minnesota bar in the 1890s and practiced law in Clearwater County, where he was County Attorney for two terms, and later in Minneapolis, where he specialized in real estate matters. He died on J... William E. Todd (1853-1899).While representing creditors in a jury trial in federal bankruptcy court in Mankato, Minnesota, on November 8, 1899, William Elmer Todd suffered a stroke. Paralyzed on his left side, he was treated by several doctors, who performed surgery the next day. He briefly regained consciousness. He died ... Ashley M. Tyrer (1843-1880).Right after being admitted to the New York bar in 1868, twenty-five year old Ashley M. Tyrer moved to Albert Lea in Freeborn County and began practicing law. He formed a law partnership and real estate agency with Edwin C. Stacy that lasted a decade. John Whytock, a future judge of the Tenth Judic... Ole J. Vaule (1859-1938).Ole J. Vaule was the longest serving referee in the history of the bankruptcy court for the District of Minnesota. Appointed in 1898 by Judge William Lochren, he served to his death on August 6, 1938. It was a part-time position, and during these decades he maintained a private practice with Willia... Clarence A. Webber (1866-1922).Clarence Albert Webber moved to Minneapolis when he was seventeen years old. While working at a local bank, he took night classes at the University of Minnesota Law Department, graduating in 1893 at age twenty-seven. An LL.M. followed. He practiced with George B. Young until 1900, when he joined F... Edmund A. Whitford (1859-1914)A Memorial of Edmund A. Whitford, a Hastings lawyer, who died on February 13, 1914, at age fifty-four, was presented to the Dakota County District Court on April 28, 1914. ... |