Viewing Ramsey County/St. Paul Category (17) found: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. <... "Ramsey County Court House and the Men Who Inhabit It." (1903).A two page article on the tortuous history of the planning and construction of the Ramsey County Court House, completed in 1890, was published in The St. Paul Globe on November 1, 1903. ... George N. Hillman: "Some Judges and Lawyers I Have Known" (1927).George N. Hillman had been the official court reporter for Ramsey County for fifty-two years when he addressed the county bar association in December 1927 about judges and lawyers he had observed during his long career. He found these men interesting and sketches them as he saw them at work -- in ... "Ramsey County Lawyers" (1891).In May and June 1891, the St. Paul Daily Globe published a series of articles about the Ramsey County bar. The writer divided the bar into four tiers or generations of lawyers, from the founders, called "nestors," to younger, more recent members, dubbed "legal lightweights." Unlike the flattering ... Presidents of the Ramsey County Bar Association: 1926 - 2020.This is a list of the presidents of the Ramsey County Bar Association from 1926 to the present. ... Charles E. Flandrau: "The Bar and Courts of Ramsey County." (1881)Minnesota's legal community in the 1850s and early 1860s was the subject of a chapter written by Charles E. Flandrau for Edward D. Neill's "History of Ramsey County and the City of St. Paul, Including the Explorers and Pioneers of Minnesota," and J. Fletcher Williams's "Outlines of the History of M... Charles E. Flandrau: "The Bench and Bar of Ramsey County, Minnesota." (Parts I & II). (1888)In early 1888, "Magazine of Western History" published a two-part article by Charles E. Flandrau on "The Bench and Bar of Ramsey County, Minnesota." The second part concluded with a profile of Gordon E. Cole, who served as attorney general from 1860 to 1866.
Hiram F. Stevens: "The Bench and Bar of St. Paul." (1890).In 1890, General Christopher Columbus Andrews edited and published by subscription an oversized, 800 page tome, "History of St. Paul, Minn." It includes a long chapter of biographical sketches of about 265 members of the city's legal community compiled by Hiram F. Stevens, a local lawyer.
"The Bar and Bench of Ramsey County." (1892.)In January 1892, the St. Paul Dispatch newspaper published an oversized book, "Illustrated St. Paul, A Souvenir of the St. Paul Dispatch." It was composed of sections on industries and professions in the city, including the legal profession.
"The Bench and Bar of St. Paul." (1897).In 1897 a large, double-columned book celebrating the growth and achievements of St. Paul since the late 1840s was published by the Pioneer Press Company. It was titled "Saint Paul: History and Progress." Like other books about the city published at century's end, it had a chapter of "biographica... "Bench and Bar of St. Paul." (1899).On Thursday, November 9, 1899, the "St. Paul Pioneer Press" celebrated its 50th anniversary by publishing a large commemorative edition that included a two-part section on the city's courts and lawyers. After a feeble overview of the territorial period and a few years after statehood, thirty-six jud... "Three Veterans of the Ramsey County Bar" (1899).On November 5, 1899, the St. Paul Sunday Globe carried an article about the three oldest practicing lawyers in Ramsey County: Henry J. Horn, age seventy-eight, William Pitt Murray, seventy-four, and John B. Sanborn, a month shy of seventy-three. The newspaper reporter recorded the veterans' recoll... Henry A. Castle: "The Bench and Bar of St. Paul and Vicinity." (1912)During a long and active life, Henry A. Castle (1841-1916) was a lawyer, merchant, newspaperman, real estate developer, postmaster and, in retirement, historian of St. Paul, Ramsey County and Minnesota. In 1912, he published the three volume "History of St. Paul and Vicinity." The first volume cont... "Dedication of the Ramsey County Court House." (1889).On May 6, 1889, Ramsey County's "new" courthouse was dedicated in ceremonies that ran from mid-morning until midnight. It began with a farewell speech by Judge James Egan at the old courthouse, in use for over thirty years, followed by a symbolic march of the bench and bar to the "new" building wher... Dedication of the St. Paul City Hall-Ramsey County Courthouse (1932).When the St. Paul City Hall-Ramsey County Courthouse was dedicated in late 1932, no one foresaw that it would become renowned as an architectural masterpiece. Yet that it is what it is today: an art deco classic.
Photographs of the St. Paul City Hall-Ramsey County Courthouse. (1932).The St. Paul City Hall-Ramsey County Courthouse is an art deco masterpiece. About the time it was dedicated in November and December 1932, it was photographed by the Wright Studio, and these photographs (and several others taken later) became part of the Historic American Buildings Survey, a projec... Thomas M. Newson, "Pen Pictures of St. Paul, Minnesota, and Biographical Sketches of Old Settlers " (1886).In the 1880s Thomas McLean Newson (1827-1893), a St. Paul journalist, wrote dozens of short biographical sketches of early settlers for local newspapers. The portraits, which included many lawyers and judges, are short, vivid and insightful. They were compiled and published in a 746 page book in 1... |