Early Bench and Bar of Illinois
Chicago: Chicago Legal New Company, 1893. Frontispiece, vi, 252p. Original brown cloth over boards. John Dean Caton (1812-1895) was Chief Justice of Illinois and had tried the first jury cases int he countries of Cook, Kane, and Will. Also covers Life on the Circuit, with anecdotes of Abraham Lincoln [not in Monaghan], Judges of the Supreme Court [in Illinois], lynch law, the trial of Owen Lovejoy for assisting a runaway slave, as well as Caton's memoirs. Gift inscription on the inside front blank. A well-preserved copy. Item #10427
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