Viewing Isaac Atwater: "Minnesota Courts and Lawyers in the Days of the Territory." (1879).

Isaac Atwater: "Minnesota Courts and Lawyers in the Days of the Territory." (1879).

In December 1879 Isaac Atwater read a short paper on territorial judges and lawyers at a meeting of the Department of American History of the Minnesota Historical Society. Atwater arrived in Minnesota Territory in 1850 and knew each of the six lawyers and ten judges he sketched. His paper was later included in a book titled "Transactions of the Department of American History of the Minnesota Historical Society."

In the following decades Atwater returned to this period. He published four articles on the territorial bench in The Magazine of Western History in 1888, and a long chapter on the bench and bar of Minneapolis in the first volume of his History of Minneapolis, published in 1893.

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