Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1909 — PEOPLE OP THE DAY [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PEOPLE OP THE DAY

Dissolution of Standard Oil. Judge Walter H. Sanborn of St. Paul, who presided over the United Btates court of appeals of the Eighth Judicial district which decreed the dissolution of the Standard Oil com* pany, has served seventeen years on the federal bench. The suit of the government to dissolve the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey was filed In St Louis in 1906 at the Instance of the then attorney general, Wiliam H. Moody. Judge Franklin Ferris of St Louis was appointed special examiner to hear the evidence, and hearings were held In many of the principal cities of the United States. The evidence when completed was printed and forwarded to St. Louis, where it was filed with the clerk of the court. There are twenty-one vol-

umes of evidence, more than 25,000 pages In all. Id addition, there are 1,500 exhibits. The case was argued, beginning April 5 last, before the full circuit bench—Judges Walter H. Sanborn, Willis Van Devauter, William C. Hook and Elmer B. Adams. Judge Sanborn, who wrote the opinion and decree, was appointed to the bench in 1892, Senator Davis of Minnesota being bis sponsor. He Is a native of New Hampshire and was raised on a farm. After being graduated from Dartmouth he studied law, supporting himself meanwhile by teaching school. In 1870, after his admission to the bar, he removed to St Paul, where he has sinefe resided. At the time of his appointment to the federal bench he was regarded as one of the ablest lawyers In the northwest.

WALTER H. SANBORN.