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Earnest H. Davidson: "The Life of Colonel James H. Davidson." (ca. 1926).
Col. George Bradley (1832-1879).
Photographs of Historic County Courthouses in Minnesota - Part One.
Roscoe Pound: "The Pioneers and the Common Law" (1920).
"Dedication of the Ramsey County Court House." (1889).
Photographs of the St. Paul City Hall-Ramsey County Courthouse. (1932).
"Thirteen St. Paul Lawyers." (1891).


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Melville Davisson Post: "The District Attorney" (1912).

"The District Attorney" is the story of how Randolph Mason, a bookish, eccentric and very devious New York lawyer, secures the dismissal of criminal charges against his gullible, elderly client by entrapping a corrupt United States District Attorney in St. Louis, Missouri. It was published in The ...

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DeWitt Clinton Cooley: "The High Old Court of Impeachment." (1878)

After Judge Sherman Page's impeachment trial concluded with his acquittal in June, 1878, DeWitt Clinton Cooley, a prominent St. Paul lawyer, published a three-act play about the proceedings. It was a wicked farce. Cooley lampooned the state senate, which had styled itself "The High Court of Impeach...

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Melville Davisson Post: "My Friend at Bridge." (1912).

"My Friend at Bridge," a short story by Melville Davisson Post (1869-1930), about Randolph Mason, an ingenuous New York lawyer, was published in the October, 18, 1912, edition of The News-Messenger, a newspaper in Marshall, Minnesota. ...

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