Viewing Wilbur H. Cherry (1887-1950).

Wilbur H. Cherry (1887-1950).

After graduating Columbia University Law School in 1910, and practicing in New York City two years, Wilbur Harkness Cherry moved to Minneapolis and was admitted to the Minnesota bar on March 20, 1912. He became associated with the firm of Carlton & Carleton which evolved into Fish-Carleton-Cherry & Carleton. In 1917 he joined the faculty of the University of Minnesota Law School on a part-time basis, and became a full-time professor in 1925. He developed and taught a path-breaking course on Practice that was acclaimed by law teachers throughout the country. He was active in the Minnesota and American Bar Associations. He died on February 21, 1950, at age sixty-two. In memorial proceeding for the Hennepin County Bar Association that year, a colleague at the Law School Henry Rottschaefer declared:

"Though conscious of its limitations he believed that the law could, and should, be used as an instrument of progress. His long and distinguished career at the bar and as a teacher were an expression of that fundamental philosophy, which is part of the broader and more general philosophy of life that he espoused. In his passing, the bar has lost one of his finest representatives; the teaching profession one of its greatest exponents; the public one of its most valued our devoted servants; his colleagues and host of friends a loyal friend; and the world one who gladly bore his share of the tasks required to better the lot of humanity."

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