Viewing Memoirs/Biographies Category (10) found:Eben E. Corliss: "Reminiscences of the Early History of Otter Tail County" (1916).Four months after Eben E. Corliss arrived in Otter Tail County in July 1870, he was elected county attorney. There was no government at that time, although the county had been created by the legislature twelve years earlier. In January 1871, newly-elected county officials began establishing townsh... George P. Wilson: "Reminiscences of the Early Bench and Bar of Minnesota." (1908).On August 13, 1908, George Potter Wilson read a paper titled "Reminiscences of the Early Bench and Bar of Minnesota" to the annual convention of the state bar association in Duluth. He was sixty-eight years old, a three-term state Attorney General, a current state Senator and a well-known and respe... Andrew C. Dunn: "Leaves From the Tablets of My Memory Concerning Early Days of Minnesota." (1916).On April 15, 1854, Andrew Clarkson Dunn, nineteen years old and a lawyer by trade, arrived in "lower town" St. Paul by steamboat. So isolated was the village of about 1,500 that arrivals of steamboats "were hailed as epochs in the life of the place." After a few days in St. Paul, he took another bo... Judge Lorin Cray: "Experiences in Southwestern Minnesota, 1859-1867." (1911).Lorin Cray was a successful corporate lawyer in Mankato before he was elected to the Sixth Judicial District Court in 1898, succeeding Martin Severance with whom he had apprenticed a quarter century earlier. He was re-elected in 1904. In 1908, he resigned and returned to private practice. Three ye... Patrick Cudmore: "Autobiography." (1896).Born in Ireland in 1831, Patrick Cudmore emigrated to the United States in 1846, eventually settling in Minnesota a decade later. He farmed, practiced law, ran unsuccessfully for public office and served in the Civil War, 1862-1865. He was self-taught and "had high aspirations" for "honor and fame... Justice Loren W. Collins: "The Story of a Minnesotan" (1919).Loren Warren Collins served as Associate Justice on the Minnesota Supreme Court from November 1887 to April 1904, when he resigned to seek the nomination of the Republican Party for governor. He was unsuccessful and resumed practicing law. He also began writing his autobiography but when he died ... Montreville J. Brown: "My Life Story in Brief" (1967).Admitted to the Minnesota bar in 1909, Montreville J. Brown began practicing law in Bemidji. He became active in community affairs and served on the school board until 1918 when he joined the staff of the state attorney general. There he developed a specialty in the state securities laws. In 192... George N. Hillman: "Reminiscences" (1926).In August 1926, George N. Hillman spoke to the annual conference of the National Shorthand Reporters Association on his beginnings as a court reporter, his associates and other matters of professional interest. At the time he was completing his fifty-second year as a court reporter in Minnesota. <... Memoirs of Michael J. Galvin, Sr. (1990).One day when Michael J. Galvin was a school boy in Preston, Minnesota, his class was taken to the county courthouse to hear Archibald D. Gray, a legendary trial lawyer in Southeastern Minnesota, address a jury. That brief experience changed his life: he would become a lawyer.
James Manahan: "Trials of a Lawyer." (1933).James Manahan (1866-1932) was a prominent lawyer in Minnesota during the Progressive Era and beyond--from 1906 through the early 1920s. He died in 1932 at the age of sixty-six, and his autobiography, "Trials of a Lawyer," was published by his daughter Kathryn the following year.
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