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Charles E. Flandrau: "Judge Isaac Atwater." (1888)

Isaac Atwater arrived in Minnesota in 1850, at the age of 32, and died here in 1906. He served on the first supreme court following statehood. He was elected in 1857, and served from 1858 to mid-1864, when he resigned.

The following profile of Atwater was written by his friend and colleague, Charles E. Flandrau. It was published in the "Magazine of Western History" in July, 1888.

An Addendum has a sketch of Atwater that was published in the first volume of the Encyclopedia of Biography of Minnesota (1900), edited by Flandrau.

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