Word: lawyer
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...governor's answer, it will be remembered, as we have already stated, that Williams conferred the degree of LL. D. upon him when he had not become sufficiently prominent politically to warrant the idea that it was given for any other reason than for his eminence as a lawyer and his intellectual right to such a title. Indeed, we are proud to believe that the degrees of Williams have rarely been given except in recognition of merit, and that no venality or desire of currying favor with influential men can be attributed to our alma mater. Governor Butler has said...
Saul C. Davis, a lawyer, attempted to kill Congressman-elect John E. Lamb at Terre Haute, Indiana, yesterday...
Perrin H. Sumner, a lawyer, is under arrest in New York on a charge of swindling Mr. D. M. Davidson out of $15,000 in a bogus mining speculation...
...although no authoritative announcement has been made concerning it, there is no longer any doubt that its author, who masqueraded under the nom de plume of "J. S. of Dale," is Mr. Frederick J. Stimson, a graduate of Harvard in the class of 1876 and now a practising lawyer in this city. "Sly Ballades in Harvard China," also published anonymously last year, turns out to be by Mr. E. S. Martin, the editor of Life, to which position the cleverness of the book in a great measure assisted him. - [Gazette...
...battle of Bunker Hill." On the same page John Tyler, Sr., Washington, has written his name with a firmness of hand and an amount of ink that insures it preservation "till the coming of time." With the same plainness of writing is the name of a now famous Western lawyer, J. Young Scammon, Chicago, III. Not so bold in style, but with an antique scholarship, a certain Joannes Ignatius ventured upon some Latin which begins thus: "Kalendus Julus anni MDCCCXLIII., hac finis in Bostoniensi academia...