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Judge Clyde R. White (1876-1935).

Two years after graduating the University of Minnesota Law School in 1905, Clyde R. White joined the staff of Frank Healy, Hennepin County Attorney, and was placed in charge of criminal cases. For the next decade he was engaged in private practice or in public service, including employment for abou...

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Judge Joseph A. Poirier (1886-1942).

Joseph A. Poirier became fascinated with telegraphy when a school boy. When he graduated from the Minneapolis public schools, he was already a master telegrapher. He soon was employed by railroads in Canada, the United States and Mexico, later by steamship lines in the Pacific and Atlantic. In 1914...

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Judge Frank C. Barnes (1889-1963).

For a quarter century, Frank Barnes was the municipal court judge in Fergus Falls, and for another decade judge of probate and juvenile court. He died on December 11, 1963, the last day of his 73rd year. ...

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Judge Charles M. Cory (1866-1919).

Charles Morton Cory was elected Probate Judge of Nobles County in 1892 and re-elected thirteen times thereafter. He died in September 27, 1919, at age fifty three, having spent half his life on the bench. According to his obituary in the Worthington Globe:

"Judge Cory was a man of fin...

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Judge Alvin M. Crowell (1841-1920).

After years of farming and teaching, Alvin Crowell was admitted to the bar in June 1874. He promptly opened his own shop in Long Prairie, where he developed a general practice and pursued an interest in public office. He served three terms as Todd County Attorney, and ran unsuccessfully for probat...

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Judge Samuel M. Flint (1818-1881).

Samuel Minot Flint served two terms as St. Paul City Attorney and another two terms as Ramsey County Attorney in the 1860s. He later served as the first Judge of the Municipal Court of St. Paul from 1875 to 1881. He died on October 6, 1881, at age 63. The Pioneer Press concluded his obituary: ...

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Judge Nathaniel A. Gearhart (1843-1906).

During the Battle of Gettysburg, nineteen year old Nathaniel Gearhart sustained a serious leg wound. He was discharged and returned home in New York to recover. He became a lawyer, married and began raising a family. In April 1887, they moved to Duluth, Minnesota. He was deputy register of deeds ...

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Judge William A. Kerr (1867-1919).

When he was twenty-one, William Kerr moved to Minneapolis from New Brunswick, Canada, where he had read law and been admitted to the bar. He was admitted to the Minnesota bar in 1889 and joined a prominent law firm. He must have moved easily in legal and political circles because less than six yea...

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Judge Frank W. Lyon (1856-1921).

Like many other lawyers in the nineteenth century, Frank Lyon was born, educated and read law in another state before he removed to Minnesota. He graduated Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois, in 1878, apprenticed in Peoria, was admitted to the Illinois bar, and practiced four years in Toulon, his ...

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Judge Orrin E. Maxson (1862-1931).

Orrin Elrased Maxson moved to Marshall, Minnesota, in 1882, and was admitted to the bar the next year. He was twenty-one years old. In the fall of 1883, he moved to Canby and practiced law there until 1890, when he returned to Marshall. In 1892, he was elected Judge of the Probate Court of Lyon ...

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Judge John D. McGill (1920-1972).

In 1948, John D. McGill graduated from the St. Paul College of Law and was admitted to the bar. He practiced law in Winona, his hometown, served a decade in the state legislature, and was Judge of Municipal Court from June 24, 1963 to February 27, 1972, when he died at age fifty-one. Two months lat...

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Judge Orrin O. Pitcher (1830-1902).

For over forty years, Orrin Orsmby Pitcher served the city of Mankato and the county of Blue Earth as a lawyer, county attorney, state legislator, alderman, school board member, director of the state Normal School, president of the city Board of Public Works and in numerous other ways. He was also t...

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Judge Jerome E. Porter (1843-1910).

Jerome Porter held two judgeships during the forty years he lived in Mankato. He was elected probate judge of Blue Earth County in 1872, and held that post for twelve years. He was elected Municipal Court Judge of Mankato in 1882, and re-elected in 1885 and 1888. He was re-elected by a narrow margin...

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Judge Ira P. Shissler (1844-1903).

Ira Shissler practiced law in Van Wert, Ohio, for almost two decades before moving to Mankato in 1884. He was thirty-nine years old. He practiced with several lawyers, while becoming an energetic supporter of the local Republican party. In 1891, with the party's endorsement, he challenged incumbe...

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Judge Dryden Smith (1826-1899).

A "resolution of respect and condolence" for Dryden Smith, a former probate judge who died on February 22, 1899, a few weeks short of his seventy-third birthday, was filed by a committee of the Fillmore County bar with the district court on April 20, 1899. ...

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Judge Edwin Clark Stacy (1813-1897).

In 1856 an adventuresome forty-six-year-old Edwin C. Stacy, already a member of the Michigan bar, moved to Freeborn County, Minnesota, to farm. The Territorial Legislative Assembly had "established" the boundaries of the county in 1855 and in 1857 directed that it be "organized." To organize a count...

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Judge Edward Thelen (1889-1956).

Edward Thelen served as Judge of the Probate and Juvenile Courts of Washington County for a quarter century. He seemed to possess all the qualities necessary for effective service in that office. In addition he served his community in other ways as well: he was active in the St. Croix River Impro...

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Judge William L. Windom (1860-1935).

William Lincoln Windom, the nephew of the late Senator William Windom, began practicing law in Duluth, Minnesota, in 1896. He became active in Republican Party politics and was elected President of the State League of Republican Clubs in 1900. Something of a reformer, he challenged Congressman Pag...

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