lawyer, politician, judge, b. Arlington, Mass. He graduated from Iowa College (now Grinnell College, B.A., 1875), and Boston Univ. (LL.B., 1877). In 1878 he moved to Racine and set up a law practice. A Democrat, he was state assemblyman (1891-1892), and in 1893 served as one of the commissioners to promote uniform legislation in the U.S. From 1893 to 1897 he served as U.S. assistant attorney general in Washington, D.C. In 1898 he was appointed to the state supreme court to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Silas U. Pinney (q.v.). He was elected to fill the unexpired term in 1899 and served on the high court bench until his resignation in 1910. Wis. Reports, 175 (1922), pp. xxx-xxxiii; F. B. Usher, Wis. (8 vols., Chicago, 1914); Milwaukee Sentinel, May 2, 1921.

View newspaper clippings at Wisconsin Local History and Biography Articles.

Learn More

Dictionary of Wisconsin History

Explore more than 1,600 people, places and events in Wisconsin history.

[Source: Dictionary of Wisconsin biography]