Viewing Aaron Goodrich: "Early Courts of Minnesota" (1851), with recollections of Goodrich by William P. Murray, Edward Sullivan, Charles Francis Adams, Jr., Carl Schurz, and Thomas M. Newson.Aaron Goodrich: "Early Courts of Minnesota" (1851), with recollections of Goodrich by William P. Murray, Edward Sullivan, Charles Francis Adams, Jr., Carl Schurz, and Thomas M. Newson.On March 4, 1851, Chief Justice Aaron Goodrich wrote a letter to the Secretary of the Minnesota Historical Society describing the organization of the courts after the formation of the territory two years earlier. The first several paragraphs are vintage Goodrichese.
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