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"History of the Bench and Bar of Duluth and St. Louis County." (1910)

This is a chapter on the bench and bar of Duluth and St. Louis County that appeared in the two volume "History of Duluth and St. Louis County" published in 1910. Though the author of the chapter is not listed, it undoubtedly was written by or with the assistance of Judge Josiah D. Ensign, who served...

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Judge James J. Eagan: "Duluth's Fight for Supremacy" (1904).

Judge James J. Eagan's nostalgic recollections of Duluth's victory over Superior in the 1870s for economic supremacy of the region was published in the Duluth News Tribune on February 21, 1904. Eagan practiced law in Duluth after the Civil War; he was city attorney and served two terms in the state...

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Robert S. Taylor (1868 : 1924).

Within the professions of shorthand court reporting and law in the early 1900s, Robert S. Taylor was famous for his phenomenal speed, accuracy and stamina. His virtuoso performance in reporting testimony in the Standard Oil antitrust case in 1907-1908 was recalled with awe by other reporters years l...

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Consul Willshire Butterfield: "Bench and Bar of Duluth." (1889)

According to Judge Ozora P. Stearns, holding court in the Eleventh Judicial District as late as the 1870s was a makeshift affair, resulting in "a rough kind of justice." There were no courthouses. Lawyers and judges had few law books, and there was not a complete set of the Minnesota Reports ...

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"Firsts" in the History of the Bench and Bar of Duluth and St. Louis County. (1921)

A multi-volume history of Duluth and St. Louis County, published in 1921, chronicled year-by-year noteworthy events, including the "first" court session, the "first lawyer" in Duluth, the "first lawyer" in the county, the "first lawsuit," the "first" journal of the district court, and so on--hence t...

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