Viewing Memoirs/Biographies Category (15) found: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... 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 ... "The Autobiography of William T. Coe" (1944).William Tatnal Coe graduated the University of Minnesota in 1894 and the University Law School in 1896. In 1944 the Class of 1894 held their 50th reunion. Members were encouraged to write their autobiographies for the reunion. Coe's autobiography is posted here.
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... 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... 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... 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.
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. <... 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 on January 8, 1932 at the age of sixty-five, and his autobiography, "Trials of a Lawyer," was published by his daughter Kathryn the following year.
Knute Nelson: "Early Experiences in Minnesota" (1923).After he moved from Wisconsin, where he was a member of the bar, to Alexandria in Douglas County, Minnesota in 1871, Knute Nelson overcame hardships that would have driven many other lawyers back across the border. He related these experiences decades later, when he was a U. S. Senator, to the edit... "Some Early Minnesota History from the Autobiography of Judge James H. Quinn" (1928).James H. Quinn served as Associate Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court from 1917 to January 1, 1928, the effective date of his resignation. That January he completed writing his memoirs of growing up on the prairies of southwestern Minnesota in the 1860s, 1870s and 1880s, early experiences pract... 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... G. Aaron Youngquist: "Autobiography" (1959).In 1959, the last year of his life, Gustav Aaron Youngquist wrote his autobiography. It is a sprawling story -- from mishaps on the boat trip from Sweden to America when he was three years old to an argument in an odd tax appeal to the Wisconsin Supreme Court later in life. In a Foreword, his gran... Citations to cases in which G. Aaron Youngquist appeared before the U. S. Supreme Court, 1925-1933.This article is comprised of Westlaw citations to cases in which G. Aaron Youngquist appeared before the United States Supreme Court between 1925 and 1933. It is a companion to and supplements G. Aaron Youngquist's "Autobiography," which is posted separately on the Minnesota Legal History Project ... |