2025-01 Raynors Historical Collectible Auctions
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 1/26/2025
JUDGE A(lanason). H(amilton). BARNES came from New York to Delavan in 1855; was a practicing attorney till 1872, He was appointed associate justice of the Dakota Territory Supreme Court by President Ulysses S. Grant, Abraham Lincoln's commander-in-chief, on March 24, 1873, with headquarters at Fargo. He established the first court ever held at Bismarck, of that Territory. Autograph Letter Signed “A.H. Barnes” in the hand of his wife, 4pp, Delavan (Wisc), March 4, 1861, written to James R. Doolittle the sitting Wisconsin Senator regarding possible Judgeship, in part, “Judge Fakely of White-Water is one of the District Judges in Nebraska. His place is to be supplied doubtless by a Republican. ... I have no doubt but through the aid of some Eastern friends I could reach the ear of Gov. Seward ...” Written the date of Lincoln’s inauguration, the office seeker starts his hunt for a Judgeship.
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