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SOURCE: 
Centennial Edition of the Lapeer County Press and Lapeer County Clarion
dated Wednesday, August 19, 1931
Commemorating 100 Years of History and Progress
Lapeer  1831 - 1931

Transcribed and submitted by Linda Talbott
for the U.S. Data Repository  http://www.us-data.org/

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                        FIRST COURT HELD IN 1837
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                   Judges Morrell and Davison Preside
                    Pioneer Members of Bar Are Named
                    
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                     The men who have been presid-
                     ing judges of the Lapeer County
                     Circuit Court since the beginning
                     of its history have been: Hon.
                     George Morrell, and Hon. Norman
                     Davison, associate, who presided at
                     the first term that convened in the
                     County on October 17, 1837; follow-
                     ed by Hons. Charles N. Whipple,
                     Daniel Goodwin, Warner Wing,
                     Sanford M. Green, Josiah Turner,
                     James S. Dewey, Levi B. Taft, 
                     Augustus C. Baldwin, S. B. Gaskill,
                     William W. Stickney, Joseph B.
                     Moore, George Smith, W. B. Williams,
                     Walter S. Wixon and H. H. Smith.
                              EARLY ATTORNEYS
                       The pioneer members of the Lapeer
                     County bar were: Silas D. McKeen, 
                     Noah H. Hart and Col. Jonathan R.
                     White.