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Charles E. Flandrau: "Lawyers and Courts of Minnesota Prior to and During its Territorial Period." (1897)

In January 1896, Charles E. Flandrau gave a nostalgic speech to the annual meeting of the Minnesota Historical Society in which he told stories and reminisced about lawyers and judges of the 1850s-a period he called "those light-hearted days." In March 1897, the monthly "Minnesota Law Journal" published Flandrau's address.

On two early occasions, Flandrau had published variations of this speech. It was in large part a condensed version of a chapter he had written on "The Bar and Courts of Ramsey County" for a history of the county and state published in 1881, and which he later revised and published a second time in "Magazine of Western History" in early 1888.

Flandrau (1828-1903) served on the Territorial Supreme Court in 1857 and 1858 and on the Minnesota Supreme Court from 1858 to 1864.

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