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Photographs personal residences of lawyers and judges in Minnesota.
Photographs of Historic Federal Courthouses in Minnesota.
Photographs of Historic County Courthouses in Minnesota - Part One.
Photographs of Historic County Courthouses in Minnesota: Part Two.
Photographs of Historic County Courthouses in Minnesota: Part Three.
Photographs of the St. Paul City Hall-Ramsey County Courthouse. (1932).

























































































Viewing Howard M. Atkins (1838-1893).


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 practiced in Princeton and St. Cloud for fourteen years and then settled permanently in Elk River, the seat of Sherburne County. There he held the offices of County Auditor and Attorney. He died on September 5, 1893, aged fifty-five. At a banquet later that year, District Court Judge Dolson B. Searle recalled him:

"Not widely known, but in his restricted circles, he was known as a lawyer of ability, strictly honest, warm hearted and true to his friends. He enjoyed the respect confidence and esteem of all who knew him. His little family circle was happy, and by his death they have been deprived of the strong arm in which they leaned as the sun light of their life."

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