Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1901 — CAREER OF JUDGE JEREMIAH M. WILSON. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CAREER OF JUDGE JEREMIAH M. WILSON.

Few lawyers in the United States have figured in a larger number of famous cases than Judge Jeremiah M. Wilson, who died in Washington while acting as leading counsel for Rear Admiral Schley. He was generally acknowledged to be the foremost of all the bright intellects at the Washington bar, and his appearbefore the United States Supreme Court never failed to be the signal for the closest attention by the -justices, who, had a high regard for his clarity of mind and rare powers of analysis. Judge Wilson earned his judicial title forty years ago, when he served with distinction on the Common Pleas and Circuit Court benches in Indiana, lie also served an Indiana district as Representative in Congress during the terms of 1871 and 1873, after which he went into a law partnership with Congressman Shellabarger, and took part in many famous cases, both civil and criminal. He was attorney for the Union Pacific Railway for many years, and for the Mormon Church. He acted as counsel in the Star Route trials, the Holt will case, the Breekin-ridge-Pollard breach of promise case, the trial of Captain Howgate, the court-mar-tial proceedings against Gen. Swaim, the Oberlin Carter case, the Venezuela, Alabama, French spoliation, and many other noted cases. In his death te country has lost one of its best legal minds.