Keyword Search

Recent Postings

Penny A. Petersen: "Isaac Atwater."

Thomas L. Olson: "Blockbusters: Minnesota Movie Men Slug it out with Studio Moguls, 1938-1948."

"The history of law is the history of ideas" --- A preface to articles on intellectual legal history and theory posted on the MLHP.

Justice David J. Brewer: "Protection to Private Property from Public Attack." (1891).

Justice David J. Brewer: "The Movement of Coercion." (1893).

Justice Calvin L. Brown: "State and Federal Police Power." (1908).

James J. Hill: "The Railroad: Legislative Regulation and Its Limits." (1910).

Edward T. Young: "The Present Problems Involved in Minnesota's Statehood." (1908).

President Theodore Roosevelt: "The Courts." (1908).

Louis D. Brandeis: "The Opportunity in the Law." (1905).

Viewing Charles Veach Smith (1872-1958).

Charles Veach Smith (1872-1958).

A graduate of the University of Minnesota Law School in 1900, Charles V. Smith served in the trust department of the Minnesota Loan and Trust Company that eventually became the Northwestern National Bank of Minneapolis (and later Norwest Bank, and now Wells Fargo) from 1906 to his retirement in 1943. He also served as a trustee of Westminster Church, Abbott Hospital and Macalester College.

He died in California on January 8, 1858, at age eighty-five. Sometime later, the Hennepin County Bar Association presented a memorial to him in district court.

comments powered by Disqus