Greenleaf, Simon, 1783-1853

Dates:
Birth 1783-12-05
Death 1853-10-06
Birth 1783-12-05
Death 1853-10-06
Gender:
Male
Americans
English, English,

Biographical notes:

Simon Greenleaf was born on December 5, 1783 in Newburyport, Massachusetts, where he attended the Latin School from 1790-1799. In 1801, he entered apprenticeship in Ezekiel Whitman's Gloucester, Maine law office. In June 1806, Cumberland County, Maine admitted Greenleaf to the Bar.

On September 18, 1806, Greenleaf married Hannah Kingman, daughter to Capt. Ezra Kingman of East Bridgewater, Massachusetts.

From 1807-1817, Greenleaf practiced law in Gray, Maine before moving his law practice to Portland, Maine in 1818. Between 1820-1832, Greenleaf served as a Reporter for the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine. In 1821, Greenleaf published a book, Cases Overruled.

In 1833, Harvard Law School appointed Greenleaf to the Royall Professorship of Law. In 1842, he published another book, A Treatise on the Law of Evidence. In 1845, Harvard Law School appointed Greenleaf as the Dane Professor of Law.

In 1848, Greenleaf resigned from his teaching position at Harvard Law School. While he was appointed as a judge to the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts in 1849, he declined the offer.

Greenleaf died on October 6, 1853 in Cambridge, Massachusetts

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Subjects:

  • Apologetics
  • Civil procedure
  • Criminal law
  • Debt
  • Harvard Law School
  • Inheritance and succession
  • Law
  • Law
  • Law reporters
  • Law reports, digest, etc
  • Law reports, digests, etc.
  • Law teachers
  • Liberia
  • Liberia
  • Massachusetts
  • Moot courts
  • Property
  • Property
  • Temperance
  • Torts
  • Husband and wife
  • Law
  • Liberia
  • Parent and child
  • Property

Occupations:

  • Authors
  • Law teachers
  • Lawyers
  • Legislators
  • Professor
  • Reporters
  • Writer

Places:

  • MA, US
  • MA, US
  • Maine (as recorded)
  • Liberia (as recorded)
  • Maine (as recorded)
  • United States--Maine (as recorded)
  • Connecticut (as recorded)
  • Maine (as recorded)
  • Great Britain (as recorded)
  • Maine (as recorded)
  • Massachusetts (as recorded)
  • Millers River (Middlesex County and Suffolk County, Mass.) (as recorded)
  • Maine (as recorded)

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