HISTORY OF BAY COUNTY

 

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BRIDGES

 

            Previous to 1865 the only means of transit across the Saginaw River was by row-boats or ferry.  In 1863 a steam flat-boat superseded the rope ferry.  In 1864 a stock company was formed and a wooden bridge built between the foot of Third Street, Bay City, and Midland Street, Wenona.  This bridge was 1,900 feet in length and cost $35,000.  It opened for travel in 1865.  In 1876 the wooden structure was replaced by the present magnificent iron bridge.  The bridge company continued to the Winter of 1883, and up to that time it was toll bridge.  At that time Bay County purchased the bridge and the tool system was abolished.  In 1876 another bridge was constructed from the foot of Twenty-Third Street to Salzburgh.  The bridge of the Detroit and Bay City Railroad was built in 1873.

 

THE COURTS AND BAR

 

            One of the first institutions established in a community of pioneers has invariably been some sort of a court of justice, where law could be expounded, justice administered, and other kinds of business, to numerous to mention, transacted.  The justice of the peace who presided over the principal court of the early days, was necessarily a being of varied attainments, at least in theory if not in fact.  It was his business to unite in holy bonds of matrimony such as desired to be pronounced, and to separate by solemn decree of divorce such as could show just and sufficient cause.  He must also apply the principles of law and justice to the whole range of offenses, from murder to neighborhood quarrels.

 

PRESENT SYSTEM OF JUDICIARY

 

The present system of judiciary of Michigan is most excellent, but it has been developed through a tortuous way.  From the date of the settlement of Detroit by the French in 1701, the people of the region now included in the state of Michigan have lived to the present time under various forms of government-edicts of kings, orders of military commanders, decrees of imperial parliaments and provincial governors, ordinances of national congresses,

 

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enactments of territorial governors and councils, provisions of state constitutions, and the laws of the state Legislature.  From the coutume de Paris to the last state constitution and enactments of the last state Legislature, the changes of 182 years have left their impress along the devious ways.

 

 

THE COURTS

            The Circuit Court of Saginaw County was established under an act of the Territorial Legislature Assemble, approved February 12, 1835, which provided that a term of court should be held for the county of Saginaw on Tuesday next after the fourth Monday in June, and on the second Tuesday next after the fourth Monday in January in each year.

            Among the first acts of the State Legislature was one dealing with the Circuit Court.  It decreed that “the Fourth Circuit shall be composed of the counties of Oakland, Lapeer, Shiawassee, Genesee, Saginaw, Ionia and Kent, and the counties attached thereto, for judicial purposes.”  The sessions of the Fourth Circuit were ordered to be held at Saginaw on third Tuesday of February and July in each year.  Subsequently the term was changed to May.  In after years, a desire to have the Spring term of the court held in April was expressed.

            Among the bills passed by the Legislature during the Winter session of 1858-’59 was one changing the terms of the Supreme Court and reorganizing circuit districts.  The Spring term of the Supreme Court and reorganizing circuit districts.  The Spring term of the Supreme Courts was authorized to be held on the first Monday of April instead of May.  Saginaw County was detached from the Seventh Circuit and added to the Tenth, which henceforth comprised Saginaw, Gratiot, Isabella, Midland, Iosco, Bay Alpena.

            June 25, 1857, John Robertson vs. Harvey Williams was the first suit in the Bay County Circuit Court, W. L. Sherman, attorney for plaintiff; May 31, 1858, George Lord vs. Joseph P. Whittemore, W.L. Sherman attorney for plaintiff; June 2, 1858, Andrew C. Maxwell vs. James J. McCormick, Maxwell & Wisner for plaintiff, and James Birney for defendant.  No court, however, was held in which to try cases until April, 1859, when Judge Wilber F. Woodworth presided.  The Grand Jury empaneled fort his session consisted of J. S. Barclay, Henry M. Bradley, John Burdon, Daniel Burns, Jonathan Burtch, Calvin C. C. Chilson, W. L. Fay, Lyman Garrison, B.B. Hart, Christian Heinzmann, Fred Keisler, Nathan Knight, Alexander McKay, Gunder Miller, John W. Putnam, Henry Raymond, Harvey Stewart, Edward Vosburg, Albert Wedthoff and Michael Winterhalter.  Henry Raymond was chosen foreman.

            The building used for a court house stood where the south end of the new Denison Block now stands on Water Street.

            The first man convicted of murder in the county was Peter Van Gestle, for the murder of Per Van Wert.  The murder was committed in Bay County, January 31, 1859.  The following April Van Gestle was tried, convicted and sentenced to solitary confinement for life.

            In 1861, Judge Woodworth resigned, and Hon. James Birney was appointed by the Governor to fill the unexpired term.  He was succeeded by J. G. Sutherland, who resigned in 1870 upon his election to Congress.  Then came John Moore and T. C. Crier.  The latter died in 1872, and was succeeded by Hon. Sanford M. Green, who is still upon the bench.

            Bay County is now a part of the eighteenth judicial district.  The terms of court are the first Tuesday of March, September and December, and the third Tuesday in June.

            Sanford M. Green, circuit judge Bay City, was born May 30, 1807, at Grafton, Rensselaer Co., N. Y. He is a descendant of the Greens of Rhode Island.  His father was a farmer of limited estate and uneducated.  He permitted his son to purchase his time at the age of sixteen years, and at that early age he left the parental roof.  During the next three years he labored on a farm for wages, and applied himself to study, in the intervals of labor, under a private instructor.  Up to this time he had never had any instructor in, or given any attention to, geography or English grammar.  At the age of nineteen he had qualified himself to teach though he had only attended school, and that a common school, for three months.  For two years he taught school in Winter, and continued to labor on a farm through the remainder of the year.  In 1828 he commenced the study of law, and in the same year, cast his first vote for President Jackson.  He read law for a time with George C. Sherman, and afterwards. With Judge Ford, eminent lawyer of New York; still later he pursued his reading in the office of Stirling & Bronson, of Watertown.  Having pursued his studies for five years, he was admitted to the bar as an attorney at law and solicitor in chaucery.  He went into practice at Brownville, N.Y., and pursued it there until 1835, when he removed to the city of Rochester, where he became partner of the late Hon. H.L. Stevens On Mr. Stevens removing to Michigan a year afterwards, he formed a partnership with I. A  Eastman, Esq., with whom he continued until 1837.  In the Spring of that year he became interested in the land on which the city of Owosso, Mich., has since been built, and went there to reside.  He assisted in laying the foundation of the thriving town and continued to live there for six years.  During this period he held the offices of justice of the peace, supervisor, assessor of a school district and prosecuting attorney of Shiawassee County.  At the election of 1842 he was elected senator, and served for two years.  At the close o his term as senator, in 1844 he was appointed by the chancellor and judges of the Supreme Court to revise the statutes of the state, and was requited to report his revision at the commencement of the legislative session of 1846.  He served during this term in the Senate as chairman of the judiciary committee.  As such he reported the bill providing for that revision, and for the appointment, by the governor, of the commissioner to prepare it.  The bill was passed by the Senate in this form.  After it went to the House the question was started who should be appointed commissioner.  Senator Green was the general choice, but under the bill which he reported, and as it passed the Senate, he was ineligible, as the then constitution prohibited the appointment by the governor of any person to an office, crated by the Legislature of which he was a member.  To obviate this objection, the House amended the bill so as to transfer the appointing power to the judiciary, and the amendment was concurred in by the Senate.  His appointment was recommended by the entire Senate, with one or two exceptions, and by all the professional men in the House.  In 1843 he removed to Pontiac, and there he prepared his revision.  It was reported at the time prescribed, was adopted by the Legislature, with some amendments, and went into effect March 1, 1847.  He was re-elected to the Senate immediately before his report.  On the resignation of Judge Whipple to the third circuit to fill the vacancy, Judge Green was appointed to fill the vacancy in the fourth circuit as Judge Whipple’s successor.

            In this position of circuit judge, and ex-officio judge of the Supreme Court, of which he was presiding judge for two years, he served until the re-organization of the latter court in 1858.  After this change in the judiciary, he continued to hold the office of circuit judge of the Sixth Circuit until 1867, when he resigned.  He immediately removed to Bay City, and thenceforth devoted himself to the practice of law until he was appointed, in June 1872, circuit judge of the Eighteenth Circuit, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Judge Grier.  In this position he is still acting.  In 1860

 

 

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he prepared and published a work on the practice of circuit courts.  An edition of 1,200 copies was issued, and so eagerly was it sought for by the profession, that nearly every copy has been sold.  The important and conspicuous part performed by Judge Green, officially and otherwise, in giving judicious form and system to the statutes and the practice of the courts of this state, and in improving its general jurisprudence is worthy of a more extended notice than is admissible in this brief memoir.  The revised statutes of 1846 have remained now for a quarter of a century, and no effort has been made to supersede it by another.  Two compilations have been made to bring together, in convenient form, the numerous changes made necessary by nationals events by the expanding enterprise of the time and the rapid development of our local resources, but the general features of that revision remain.  His judicial record for over twenty years as a nisi prius judge, and for ten years in the Court of Last Resort is creditable alike to the state and to him.  The opinions of the court prepared and read by him, published in the first four volumes of the Michigan Reports, are clear and forcible in style; thy show a thorough acquaintance with the subjects involved, a modest deference to the current of decisions by other courts, a clear perception of the ethical philosophy of the law, a constant appreciation of its great purpose and a bold adherence to recognized principles.  These contain the results of his mature judgment after deliberate consideration.  But he has exhibited in his long service at the circuit a wider range of judicial qualities than can be called into exercise in a purely Appellate Court.  He possesses rare qualifications for the nisi prius bench, for trial of questions of fact.  His analytical mind enables him at once to put aside what is foreign to the subject of inquiry, and to so classify the material evidentiary facts, as to disentangle the most intricate case, and bring order out to apparent chaos.  His knowledge of the law is profound; he has mastered and digested it as a great moral science.  In the administration of it, he is ready without being precipitate, dignified without austerity, patient and attentive to arguments, and independent and uniformly impartial in his decision.  He is ever serene and self possessed, however the bustle and excitement of important trials may affect parties, council or public.  He is popular with the profession and enjoys the fullest confidence of the public.  On his retirement from the bench in 1867 he was tendered a public dinner at Pontiac, and the festive occasion was emphasized by the presentation of a beautiful silver service, with toasts and speeches abounding in compliments well merited, and which has the ring of “well done, good and faithful servant.”  Nor is Judge Green a mere judge or justice; his reading has been extensive.  He is, in short, a man of refinement and general culture, with broad and liberal views.

 

PROBATE COURT .

 

            At the first election held in Bay County on the first Monday in June, 1857, Sydney S. Campbell was elected judge of probate.  The first business transacted in his court was an application for the appointment of Michael Winterhalter as administrator of the estate of Frederick Wintermur, deceased.  Mr. Campbell held the office until January 1 1869, and was succeeded by Hon. H. H. Hatch, who served one term.  Then J. W. McMath, John Hyde and Thomas E. Webster, the latter being the present incumbent.

 

BAY COUNTY BAR.

 

            The first lawyers in Lower Saginaw were W. L. Sherman, C. H. Freeman, James Birney, Stephen Wright and James Fox.

            W. L. Sherman was born in Rutland, Jefferson Co., N. Y., March 20, 1819; was admitted to the bar in 1837, and began the practice of law at Adams, N.Y. In 1854 he settled in Lower Saginaw and was engaged in the practice of his profession until his death, which occurred June 30, 1865.  He left a wife and two children, who still reside in Bay City.

            Chester H. Freemand is the pioneer member of the Bay County bar, having begun practice in Lower Saginaw as early as 1855, before Bay County was organized.  Mr. Freemand was born in Williamstown, Oswego Co., N. Y., February 28, 1822.  His father was an extensive farmer, and a practicing physician.  The subject of this sketch spent his early years assisting “upon the farm and attending school.  There is a tradition of his school days that he was a studious youth, and peaceably inclined, but when a weaker party was abused he made it a rule to interfere, and some one whose name was not Freemand experienced disastrous consequences.  Sometimes the chastisement was visited upon another pupil and sometimes upon a teacher.  In 1837 he entered Cazenovia Seminary, where he remained one year.  He then taught for a time and afterwards attended school at Mexico, N. Y., about three years.  He then returned to the farm, where he remained ten years.  April 3, 1844, he married Ellen O. Davis, of Williamstown, N.

Y., in 1854.  While at school he began the study of law, which afterwards resumed, and was admitted to the bar at Syracuse, N. Y., in 1854.  After practicing about a year he came West and settled in Lower Saginaw in July, 1855.  He opened an office on Water Street at the foot of Center Street.  In the Fall his family arrived, and they were established in rooms in the Watson Block.  In the Fall of 1856, Mr. Freeman went into the woods and purchased a lot where his present residence stands, on the corner of Third and Madison Streets, where he built a frame house which the family immediately occupied.  All that area was low ground and most of the time covered with water.  Mr. Freemand built a sidewalk leading to his house, which is known as “Freeman’s temperance sidewalk.”  It consisted of planks laid on blocks making about one foot wide, and elevated nearly two feet from terra firma.  During a wet time this would be submerged in places.  The house stood upon a little mound, which was the only redeeming feature of the locality.  This was pioneer life.  Mr. Freeman was a young man of more than average mental and physical vigor, and soon took a commanding position in the new county.  In 1857, Bay County was organized and he was elected prosecuting attorney.  Then came the fight to maintain the separate county organizations.  The history of this peculiar and severe struggle is faithfully portrayed elsewhere in this work.  Mr. Freeman drew the bill passed by the Legislature, and when the validity of the organization was assailed, he stoutly defended it.  Although he stood almost alone, he never wavered in his belief or determination to fight for it to the end.  It was a most critical situation.  He was a young man and of recent advent in to the county.  If he failed the result must inevitably prove fatal to his future prospects.  He did not fail, but followed the contest to a successful issue and achieved a great triumph, not alone for himself, but for the county.  His courage and ability in that struggle can never be questioned.  In 1860 he was stricken with sciatica, from which he suffered intensely most of the time for nearly ten year.  He has never fully recovered from the effects of it, but the past thirteen years has been able to attend to his business.  In 1872 he built the brick residence and office, which he now occupies, upon the lot before described.  At the present no trace of the swamp, or rough surroundings, remain, but broad, handsome streets, and beautiful homes are there instead.  Mr. Freemand has accumulated a large amount of property notwithstanding the severe struggle with disease, which for nearly ten years rendered him helpless.  He has built a number of dwellings housed and stores, some of which he still owns.  He was for some time Circuit Court commissioner, and as highway commissioner laid out some of the most important

 

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 roads in the county.  Mr. and Mrs. Freeman are the leading members and supporters of the Emmanuel Reformed Episcopal Church at South Bay City.  Mr. Freeman’s name must always remain associated with the early history of Bay County, in the interest of which he has rendered great service.

James Birney is mentioned in another part of this work.

Stephen Wright went to California, where he died.

James Fox remained only a short time,

Andrew C. Maxwell come here in March, 1857, from Lapeer, Mich.  He was born in Onondaga County, N. Y., July 11, 1831.  When thirteen years of age he removed to Michigan with his parents, who settled in Oakland County.  He was brought up on a farm, and studied law at Pontiac.  In June, 1853, he was admitted to the bar and settled in Lapeer, where he began the practice of law.  December 28, 1853, he married Sarah M. Hart, who belonged to the pioneer family of Lapeer County.  While there he held the office of prosecuting attorney one term.  In March, 1857, he settled in Lower Saginaw, where he has been in continuous practice longer than any other attorney now here.  He was a member of the Board of Supervisors in 1870-’71, and from 1876 to 1880, when he resigned.  In 1881 he was again elected and re-elected in 1882 and 1883.  He was a member of the Legislature in 1865 and in the Fall of 1882 was the Democratic candidate for Congress in the Tenth district.  In 1872 he built a block on Water Street, known as the Maxwell Block.  Mr. Maxwell has had more to do with the affairs of Bay County than any other man in it on account of his long service on the Board of Supervisors and his recognized ability as a lawyer.  He also took an active part in the organization of the county.  As a lawyer Mr. Maxwell long ago had acquired a state reputation,

And for upwards of twenty years has had a very extensive practice in the courts of Northern Michigan.  To those who know him it would sound exceedingly tame to say that “Maxwell is an inveterate joker,”  when for a quarter of a century accounts of his acts of generosity and interestedness in others’ affairs upon auspicious occasions have been the current anecdotes in this part of the state, several of which are recorded in another part of this work.

     Theophilus Cotton Grier, judge of the Eighteenth Judicial Circuit, from 1870 to the time of his death in 1872, was in his day a prominent member of the Bay County bar.  Judge Grier was born on the 2nd of January, 1834, and he was consequently in his thirty-ninth year at the time of his death.  His parents resided at Ravenna, Ohio, during his early childhood, but they both died when he was quite young.  He then resided with an uncle for some time.  He was a descendant, on his mother’s side, from the Rev. John Cotton, of Boston, and of Pilgrim fame.  At fifteen years of age he was apprenticed to Joel B. Brattles, editor of the Trumbull County Democrat, Ohio; after that he attended an institution of learning in Marietta, and studied law in the office of Riddle & Hathaway, at Chardon, Ohio, in 1854.  In 1857 he married the lady who was his faithful companion till the day of his death.  Shortly after his marriage he was admitted to the bar and removed to Pine Run, in this state, where he commenced the practice of law in the same year.  In the latter part of the year 1859 he removed to Bay City.  At that time he was in very destitute circumstances, but with that courage and ability he possessed, he soon secured a good practice and continued to increase it until it became quite lucrative.  Judge Grier was frequently elected to offices of trust and honor.  In 1860 he was elected prosecuting attorney and Circuit Court commissioner for the county.  In 1862 he was, however, not fortunate, and was defeated in the election for the same offices.  In 1865 he was the attorney for the city, and in 1867 was elected representative to the Legislature from this district.  While filling this office he distinguished himself both as a debator and good working member.  In 1870, by unanimous request of his legal brethren of the Bay City bar, and without opposition, he was chosen judge of the Eighteenth Judicial Circuit.

     Luther Beckwith is one of the early members of the Bay County bar, having settled here in the Fall of 1860.  He is a native of Washtenaw County, and a graduate of the University of Michigan.  He was admitted to practice in 1860, and began practice in Bay City.  He held the office of prosecuting attorney from 1863 to 1867, and has also been alderman of the city.  He is well known and has a good reputation as a lawyer.

     Archibald McDonell settled in Bay City in June, 1861.  He was born in St. Andrews, Nova Scotia, January 1, 1833.  He received a grammar school training and taught in his native province about three years. In 1859 he entered the law department of Michigan University, and graduated in the Spring of 1861.  The following June he entered upon the practice of his profession in Bay City.  He has held several local offices, among which were those of mayor of the city, supervisor, circuit court commissioner, city attorney and alderman.  Mr. McDonell has been very successful, both as a lawyer and business man, and ranks among the wealthy men of Bay County.  He is a member of the hardware firm of Logan, Bialy & McDonell, and has large real estate interests in the city and county.

     Isaac Marston, late associate of the Supreme Court, has recently engaged in the practice of law at Detroit, but it is impossible to separate his name from the history of progress in Bay City and County during the past twenty years.

     He was born in Ireland, January 2, 1839, his father being a small landed proprietor of English descent.  His mother maintained and educated the children after their father’s death.  He determined to take his chances in the busy world on this side of the water, and in 1856 came to America, where he began his career by working upon a farm in Oakland County, where he attended school for two months.   He was here with no advantages save his indomitable will and fixed determination to make the best use of the talents given him, yet he has far outstripped the thousands whose surroundings made easy the way to success.  In 1859 he entered the law department of the University of Michigan, and graduated in 1861.  During a portion of the time he was in the employ of Judge Cooley, with who he afterwards sat upon the Supreme Bench.  After graduating he practiced law for six months at Alma, Gratiot County, where he lost his library by fire.  He then practiced for a short time at Ithaca, after which he came to Bay City.  His career since coming here twenty-one years ago, has been one of continued improvement, not only in the extent and value of his professional work, but in the positions of public trust which he has been called upon to fill.  March 18, 1863, he formed a partnership with Hon. H. H. Hatch, which continued, substantially, up to 1874, when Judge Marston was appointed attorney-general by Gov. Bagley.  This formed the strongest legal firm in Northern Michigan, and both of its well known members have acquired an enviable reputation as well as the more substantial evidences of the esteem in which they are held by the public.  Before receiving the appointment above referred to, Judge Marston had acted in the capacity of justice of the peace, prosecuting attorney and city attorney, and was chosen State Representative, in all of them showing the same conscientious regard to the duties and responsibilities of his position as has characterized him in the higher honors to which he has since been called.  In April, 1875, he was elected justice of the Supreme Court, to fill the vacancy caused by the election of Judge Christiancy to the United States Senate, and remained upon the bench until his resignation in February last.  He has been a power in promoting

 

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the growth and development of the county, and his services are appreciated by its citizens.

     Hon. Herschel H. Hatch, of Bay City, member of Congress from the Tenth Congressional District, was born in Morrisville Madison Col, N. Y., February 17, 1837.  The experiences of his early live were similar to those of the average American youth of that day.  He was naturally studious and ambitious, and received the best education a boy could secure from the public schools of his native village and from the instruction of his father.  When he came to decide upon a life pursuit, he chose the law and was admitted to the law department of Hamilton College, from which he graduated in 1859.  He then opened an office and began the practice of law in his native village, where he remained until 1863.  In March of that year he came to Bay City, and the same month became associated with Isaac Marston in the practice of law.  The next year James Birney was admitted to the firm, which then became Birney, Marston & Hatch.  In about a year Mr. Birney retired, and the firm of Marston & Hatch continued, and was recognized as one of the leading law firms in the state.  This firm was dissolved by the election of Mr. Marston to the Supreme Bench in 1875.  Mr. Hatch was one of the first aldermen of Bay City, being elected to that position on the incorporation of the city in 1865.  In the Fall of 1868 he was elected judge of probate of Bay County, and held the office until 1872.  In 1874, the Legislature having directed Gov. Bagley to appoint a commission to revise and amend the constitution, and Mr. Hatch having gained a state reputation as a lawyer, he was selected by Gov. Bagley as one of the eighteen commissioners to perform the work, Gov. Jerome being his colleague from the Saginaw district.  In 1881 he was one of the five commissioners appointed by the Governor, under the bill passed by the Legislature to revise the tax laws of Michigan.  The present tax law is the work of that commission, of which Mr. Hatch was a leading and influential member.  He has held various other positions of trust and influence, and especially in educational matters he has always taken an active interest and has done much toward their advancement.  While Mr. Hatch has been almost continuously in public service, he has never been considered a politician in the commonly accepted meaning of that term.  His ambition and energies have been directed to his profession, in which he is recognized as one of the leading lawyers of Michigan, and has been associated with some of the most important cases that have arisen in this part of the state.   He is a man of great energy, and is a hard worker, both as a student and practitioner.  He possesses many marked characteristics, prominent among which are decisionof character, and directness of speech and action.  In the Fall of 1882 he received the nomination of Representative in Congress, from the Republications of the Tenth District, and was elected by a majority as surprisingly large as it was satisfactory to himself and political friends.  He was married in June, 1864, at Morrisville, N. Y., to Miss Eliza E. Houghton, of that place.  They have four children.  Their family residence is on the corner of Tenth and Washington Streets.

     James R. Cooke practiced here awhile.  He is now in one of the departments at Washington.

     R. McBrookins was associated with A. C. Maxwell a year or so, and in 1862 went into the army.

     C. H. Denison, a brilliant lawyer, was here from about 1863 till 1879.  He is now in New York City.

     Cushman K. Davis studied with A. C. Maxwell in 1864.  He was afterwards governor of Minnesota.

     Samuel Maxwell, brother of A.C. Maxwell, and now one of the supreme judges of Nebraska, was admitted here and went into the army in 1861.

     Archie Stevenson studied with A.C. Maxwell in 1858, and was admitted.  He went West and became prominent as a lawyer.  He died about 1874.

     E. W. Andrews, a minister, came here about 1870 and was admitted to the bar.  He practiced a short time and went away about 1874.

     E. W. Andrews, a minister, came here about 1870 and was admitted to the bar.  He practiced a short time and went away about 1875.

     Dr. William Daglish was also a member of the Bay County bar.  He is mentioned in another place.

     Those mentioned were the pioneer lawyers of Bay County.  Among the older lawyers who came after those named were George P. Cobb, T. F. Shepard, J. W. McMath and S. T. Holmes.

     Following are the present members of the bar:  E. Anneke, L. Beckwith, John Brigham, Jr., Samuel L. Brigham, George P. Cobb, Fatio Colt, Edgar A. Cooley, F. B. Clark, C. L. Collins, M. A. Dowling, Henry Fenton, C. H. Freeman, G. H. Francis, S. P. Flynn, Isaac A. Gilbert, H. M. Gillett, J. C. Greening, Fredercik K. Gustin, S. T. Holmes, H. H. Hatch, John Hyde, John Hargadon A. H. Ingraham, A. M. King, A. P. Lyon, Henry Lindner, A. C. Maxwell, J. W. McMath, A. MmcDonell, George W. Mann, Daniel Mangan, W. J. McCormick, M. J. Mchugh, L. McHugh, H. W. Newkirk, Frank S. Pratt, Edward W. Porter, C.E. Pierce, E. W. Rider T. F. Shepard, W. Scofield, John L. Stoddard, John E. Simonson, E. R. Slawson, H. Selleck, R.B. Taylor, H. M. Wright, T. A. E. Weadock, F. L. Westover, Thomas E. Webster.

 

 

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