Viewing Edwin S. Thompson (1852-1932).Edwin S. Thompson (1852-1932).Before settling down in St. Paul the late 1880s, Edwin Thompson led a life that resembled a character in a novel by Jack London: he was a practicing lawyer at age twenty, seafarer, prosecuting attorney in wide-open Butte, Montana, buffalo hunter, and appreciator of good literature and poetry. From 1886 to 1925, he practiced law in St. Paul, specializing in personal injury suits. He was a superb draftsman, whose pleadings were "rarely demurrable."
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