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Uitgever Minneapolis : Hall Black & Co.,1900. Contemp. halfvellum binding. 90 pp. Portrait. With business card of Mrs. Charles H. Woods pasted in. With library ticket of Carleton College Library, Northfield, Minnesota. pasted on upper pastedown. Number in...

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Extra informatie - Rare original edition of a ninety page pamphlet in a deluxe hardcover edition on laid paper. Published by his widow Carry Woods it contains the sermons at the funeral of the Minneapolis' lawyer Charles Henry Woods (1836-1899), as well as tributes and memorials passed by the bar associations, resolutions from other organizations and letters of condolence. After his discharge from the Union Army in 1865, Charles Henry Woods, a twenty-nine year old lawyer, moved to Minneapolis, arriving on July 5, 1866. The following year he was elected City Justice, another name for Justice of the Peace, and was known forever after as 'Judge.' He became associated with two prominent law firms in the city: Cornell & Bradley and Atwater & Flandrau. Later he practiced with Eugene A. Merrill, P.M. Babcock, Attorney General William Hahn, and Joseph R. Kingman. During the next three decades, he became a leader of the local bar. He died on April 16, 1899, at age sixty-two.