A Sketch Of The Dayton Bench And Bar

Author : George W. Houk
Publisher : Rarebooksclub.com
ISBN 13 : 9781230087375
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (873 download)

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Download or read book A Sketch of the Dayton Bench and Bar; Historical and Personal written by George W. Houk and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 edition. Excerpt: ...and laborious training in a large miscellaneous practice at the Dayton bar, in the early part of his life, so familiarized him with the elementary principles of the common and civil law, with methods of legal procedure, the law of evidence, and the fundamental principles of international law, that when he was called upon to exercise the high functions of statesmanship or diplomacy, he did not find himself by any means unequipped for the service. The early bar of Ohio was no mean school for men destined to be called into the highest ranks of public life. In it were trained Ewing, Corwin, Crane, Vinton, the Stanberrys, Chase, Stanton, McLean, Swayne, and later, Thurman, Ranney, Groesbeck, Waite, and a score of others whose public services have conferred lustre upon the State and nation. General Schenck well deserves to be ranked among the most illustrious men Ohio has produced--and no State in the Union, could furnish him better company. He has himself sketched briefly but accurately, in a letter kindly written by him and quoted in this chapter, the other more prominent members of the original Dayton bar when he came here in 1831. Mr. Odlin, for many years his senior partner, and to whom he did not refer, did not come to Dayton until afterwards. His partnership with Mr. Schenck was formed in 1834. He was purely a lawyer and one of very high standing. He was a most effective speaker, educated, always logical, and at times very eloquent. He was a superior trial lawyer, as strong in the arguments of questions of law to the court as of facts to the jury. There were very few, if any, law firms in the State that excelled in their day that of Odlin & Schenck. ' Another most widely, extended reputation attained by a member of the Dayton bar was...