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vania, from which institution he graduated held until June 3, 1881, when he was ap in 1853. After two years of teaching in an pointed by Governor Pillsbury as the suc academy at Morgantown, West Virginia, he cessor of Mr. Justice Cornell. commenced the study of the law and was Loren Warren Collins was appointed by Governor Merriam to fill the vacancy caused admitted to the bar in 1857. In the spring of the same year Mr. Mitchell located at by the death of Mr. Justice Berry. Judge Winona, Minnesota, where he was engaged Collins was born at Lowell, Massachusetts, in the practice of the law until elected Judge in 1838, and came to Minnesota in 1854. He entered the army August 9, 1862, and served

of the Third Judicial District. This posi tion he held from Jan. throughout the war, 8, 1874, until March being brevetted Cap 14, 188 1, when he was tain, March 30, 1865. appointed by Gov After the war he com ernor Pillsbury one of menced the practice the additional associ of the law at St. Cloud, and was county attor ate justices of the Supreme Court for ney of Stearns County which provision was for ten years. Judge made by the law of Collins belongs to that 1 88 1. Judge Mitchell small class of men served one term as whose light cannot be a member of the Leg concealed beneath the islature in 1859. Al political bushel of an though a Democrat opposition political in politics, his ability party with a large and universally rec normal majority. He ognized fitness have was a member of the kept him in office in Legislature in 188 1 a Republican com and again in 1883, munity without op and served as one of position. the managers of the Daniel A. Dickinson impeachment proceed is a native of Vermont, ings which resulted in CHARLES E. VANDERBURGH. and was born at Hart the removal from of ford, Oct. 28, 1839. fice of E. St. Julian Having lost both his parents, his youth was Cox, Judge of the Ninth Judicial District. spent under the guardianship of his grand On the 17th of April, 1883, he was ap father at Mendon, New Hampshire. After pointed Judge of the Seventh Judicial Dis graduating from Dartmouth College in 1860, trict, which position he held at the time of he read law with Smith M. Reed at Platts- his appointment as a member of the Supreme burgh, New York. Admitted to the bar in Court in 1887. 1862, he immediately entered the naval ser The Clerk of the Court is an elective vice, and served as paymaster until 1865. officer, the term of office being four years. After three years' practice at Plattsburgh, The incumbents of the office have been, he removed to Minnesota and located at with the dates of their election, James K. Mankato, where he practised law until Jan Humphrey, 1850; Andrew J. Whitney, uary, 1875, when he became Judge of the 1853; George W. Prescott, 1854; Jacob J. Sixth Judicial District. This position he Noah, 1858; A. J. Van Vorhes, 1861;