Viewing Blue Earth County Bar Memorials Category (11) found:Douglas A. Hedin: "Judge Austin C. Woolfolk (1836-1880)."Austin Coleman Woolfolk, a civil war hero, was appointed judge of the Sixth Judicial District by Governor Cushman Davis to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Judge Franklin Waite effective October 1, 1874. He served three months, holding one term of court in late December 1874 in Mankato... "Judge" James Brown (1821-1889)."Judge" James Brown never served on the bench in Minnesota. He earned that moniker after being appointed to the court of common pleas in Indiana where he studied law, practiced and was active in Democratic politics for two decades before moving to Mankato in August 1865.
William B. Davies (1848-1918).William Davies was the court reporter for the Sixth Judicial District for thirty-two years. Active in the community, he served on the Mankato Board of Education for a dozen years, and was a member of four local lodges. Reporting his death on October 11, 1918, the Mankato Daily Free Press noted, "W... William C. Durkee (1842-1882).A Civil War veteran and a recent admittee to the bar, William Durkee was elected Clerk of the Blue Earth County District Court in 1868, and served from 1869 to death on October 27, 1882. Four days later, the county bar association passed resolutions in his honor, one of which affirmed, "That, as a... Jean Anton Flitte (1866-1927).The Flitte family emigrated from Norway to America in 1869, with three year old Jean in tow. He worked the family farm in Watonwan County, Minnesota, attended local schools, taught school, read law, graduated the University of Minnesota Law Department in 1892, was admitted to the bar (this was a ti... 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 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... Lewis Porter (1829-1876).For the last seven and a half months of his life, Lewis Porter was a member of the Minnesota bar. Since boyhood in New York, he had dreams of becoming a lawyer. He read law briefly but at age nineteen stopped to take charge of his father's farm. He moved to Garden City in Blue Earth County in 186... Horace W. Roberts (1877-1957).Horace Wills Roberts, a Spanish-American War veteran, graduated the University of Minnesota Law School in 1908 and began practicing in Minneapolis with his father, a prominent lawyer. He was the first president of the Hennepin County Bar Association, serving 1919-1920. In November 1923, he was app... 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... Benjamin C. Taylor (1871-1919).In 1895, after graduating the University of Minnesota Law Department and being admitted to the bar, Benjamin Taylor moved to Mankato, where he practiced for most of the next twenty-four years. Except for the first four years when he was in partnership with George Fletcher, a lawyer in Minneapolis, ... |