Viewing Stearns County Category (10) found:Stearns County Bench & Bar (1907).The "St. Cloud Journal-Press" published a "Jubilee Edition" on September 19, 1907. It was composed of special sections on the history of Stearns County and current industries and professions. The section on the legal profession included recollections of former Supreme Court Justice Loren W. Collin... H. L. Gordon Recalls Trials in the 1860s and 1870s. (1911).Hanford Lennox Gordon (1836-1920), a Civil War veteran, practiced law in Wright and Stearns Counties in the 1860s and 1870s, and later in Minneapolis in the 1880s. He was also a poet, and published several volumes of verse, most pertaining to Minnesota. In 1915 he donated his papers to the Minneso... James E. Jenks: "The Bench and Bar of Stearns County." (1915).A history of Stearns County published in 1915 contained a lengthy chapter on the county "bench and bar." Following the format of similar chapters in county histories published about this time, all the judges who served on the district, probate and municipal courts were listed; the growth of the bar... The Year-End Banquet of the Stearns County Bar Association (1893).On Saturday evening, December 30, 1893, a banquet for the lawyers and judges of the Seventh Judicial District was hosted by the Stearns County Bar Association in St. Cloud. It was a sumptuous, festive affair held during the first months of the Panic of 1893, what became the worst depression in the ... "The Bar's Banquet to Honor Myron D. Taylor on his Appointment as Commissioner of the Supreme Court (1913)."On March 27, 1913, the Stearns County Bar Association held a banquet in the Grand Central Hotel in St. Cloud to honor District Court Judge Myron D. Taylor on his appointment as Commissioner of the Minnesota Supreme Court. The next day, the Saint Cloud Daily Times carried a long account of the festi... William A. Boerger (1875-1955).For fifty-five years--from 1900 when he arrived in St. Cloud to 1955 when he died--William Boerger served his community. He was superintendent of schools for twenty-four years, editor of the local newspaper for three years, chair of the Stearns County Welfare Board, alderman, president of the city... John E. C. Robinson (1865-1912).John E. C. Robinson, an Irish immigrant, was twenty-five years old when he was admitted to the bar in St. Cloud in 1890. He thrived on public service. He was city assessor, a library board member and mayor four terms, each a year. When he campaigned for mayor in 1906 he vowed not to enforce a 1905... Edwin M. Wright (1836-1893).Edwin M. Wright practiced law in St. Cloud from his admission to the bar in 1864 to 1873 when he moved to Otter Tail County to farm and continue practicing his profession. He practiced law in Fergus Falls either by himself or with a partner from 1873 to shortly before his death on November 27, 1893... Divorce Rates in Stearns County (1872-3).Rates of divorce in Stearns County in 1872 and early 1873 were reported in the St. Cloud Journal on March 27, 1873. ... Stearns County Court House and Jail (1915).Stearns County was formed February 20, 1855. After many starts and stops, its first courthouse was finished in 1864. In the following decades, as the county grew, its needs did also, but the county board would only authorize additions to the courthouse in the 1870s and 1880s. In 1915, the author of... |