Viewing Municipal & Probate Courts Category (8) found: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 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. ... 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... 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 ... 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... Judge Jerome E. Porter (1843-1910).Jerome Porter was elected to three 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 City Justice, the name given the local justice of the peace, in 1882, and held that post until 1... 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... 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. ... |