Lafayette French scrapbook, 1870-1904.

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Lafayette French scrapbook, 1870-1904.

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A scrapbook consisting largely of newspaper clippings with information on French's career as a lawyer and Republican politician, on the impeachment of Mower County (Minn.) district court judge Sherman Page, and on Mower County and Austin (city) Republican politics. Also included are some personal memorabilia, including a certificate (1871) authorizing French to practice law before the district courts of Minnesota.

1 v. in box.

Minnesota Historical Society Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6748534

Minnesota Historical Society Library

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Page, Sherman.

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Republican Party (Minn.)

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French, Lafayette, 1848-1912.

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Lafayette French was born in Ohio, educated at Oberlin and Hiram colleges, taught for a while at Hiram, then studied law at Camden (Ohio) and St. Louis (Missouri), where he was admitted to the bar in 1870. In that year he came to Austin, Minnesota, and practiced law there for the rest of his life. See Proceedings of the Minnesota State Bar Association (1913), p. 115-117, and History of Mower County.... (Mankato, 1884) for more biographical details. From the description of Lafayette F...