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K*r^.'*r--rr.t -zrS. he becarae Czl-j&£ :f tie Eleventh Mir.-etota, »L;:h be itd :— —" :be v;, e/v.-V. Ir. •'.-/. i*-**^. €-.'.-.-•:'. Gf'rila- was ap~ Pa.I. He -s a •»:r.tci oy Giver-iw Marshal tj £1 the f.* yt '/f r.-i .* vacsr. ry caused by the resign::'.:* c4 Ch:efJustice T*:n. Chris a; 0 at'/fl topher G. Ri'"ey -*-as of ' •a- i: .'I'M. elected Cbief-Jtatice 'IK". C*>jft a» at in the autumn ot 1 S69. t'vi i». and on the yth of Jan Jit'if.* G.ifil.an, Chief* uary Judge Gilfillan JutW,'!, at A CKarl'*"/ retired, and resumed the practice of the law K. Vzn'teib-irg. Wi.liam Miirhel!, Daniel in St. Paul. In March, 1875. A. f/i-.kniv-n, an J Chief-Justice McMil W. Collins Av lan was elected United fc';' iate Jm>ti< ev States Senator, and Chief -Ju»tk'« Gilfil Mr. Gilfillan was ap lan wa*; l>orn at Hanno' kbum, Scotland, pointed by Governor Davis to fill the va March 9, 1829, and cancy. In the Novem wa* brought to the ber following he was I/' tilled States by his elected for the full parent*! before he was term of seven years, a year old, J Jr. Johnand has through suc noii'a remark concern* cessive re-elections re ing Ixird Mansfield OREEXLIEF CLARK mained in effice until may also he applied the present time. to the CJIiief-JuAtice. In 188 r the court was called upon to de Th" family Nettled at New Hartford, Oneida County, New York, where the son labored cide a question of vast importance to the upon a farm until sixteen years of age. He State. Minnesota in its early history, like commenced the study of the law in Chenango almost all the Western States, recklessly County, and subsequently attended a law loaned its credit for the encouragement of school at Halston Spa. After being ad- railway building. The first Legislature of milled to the bnr in 1850, Mr. Gilfillan svent the State passed what is known as the Five Million Loan Bill, and under it bonds were to Buffalo, where he remained until 1857. In the spring of that year he removed to issued to the amount of 52,275,000. But little work was clone toward the con Minnesota, and was engaged in the success struction of the roads, although the State ful practice of his profession until the com mencement of the Civil War. In 1862 he subsequently obtained title through fore entered the military service as Captain of closure proceedings to about two hundred
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