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Frank K. Pratt (1857-1939).

Frank D. Merchant (1866-1943).

Howard S. Abbott (1864-1944).

Frank E. Dougherty (1891-1956).

"Inside the Jury Room During the Kelly-Lamb Murder Trial" (1875)

Maxil D. Robb (1861-1952).

Amasa Copp Paul (1857-1936).

"The Frank Day vs. Humphrey Blaisdell Libel Suit" (1891).

John R. Jones (1828-1900).

Henry Deutsch (1874-1928).

Frank W. Booth (1857-1938).

Terry Andrews: "Hamline University School of Law: A History of Its First Ten Years." (1984).

Douglas A. Hedin: "Holcombe vs. McKusick and the U. S. Supreme Court's Reaction to the Codification Movement in the 1850s.

Memorials to deceased members of the Eleventh Judicial District Bar Association delivered in St. Louis County District Court (1948).

Memorials to Deceased Members of the Fillmore County Bar (1948).

"Memorials to Judges of the Sixth Judicial District" (1907).

Traverse County Bar Memorials (1949).

Winona County Bar Memorials: 1905.

Viewing Town Site Act of 1844.

Town Site Act of 1844.

The federal Town Site Act of May 23, 1844, is posted here followed by the Minnesota Town Site Act, first enacted in 1855 and amended twice, in 1857 and 1858.

The federal Town Site Act authorized settlers in an unincorporated community or town on public land to receive title to the lots they occupied. It left to the "legislative authority" of each state or territory the obligation to prescribe "rules and regulations" for the sale of the lots, conveyance of titles and other matters.

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