Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Biographical Note
Date | Event |
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1833, Feb. 11 | Born, Augusta, Maine |
1853 | A.B., Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine |
1854-1855 | Student, Harvard Law School, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. |
1855 | Admitted to the bar |
1855-1856 | Associate editor, Augusta Age Practiced law, Augusta, Maine |
1856 | A.M., Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine |
1856-1888 | Practiced law, Chicago, Ill. |
1858 | Married Calista Ophelia Reynolds (died 1864) |
1863-1865 | Member, Illinois House of Representatives |
1866 | Married Mary Ellen Coolbaugh |
1888-1910 | Chief justice of the United States Supreme Court |
1899 | Member, Venezuela-British Guiana Boundary Commission |
1900-1910 | Member, Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague |
1905 | Member, Muscat dhows arbitration tribunal |
1910, July 4 | Died, Sorrento, Maine |