William Lochren and family papers, 1852-1925.

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William Lochren and family papers, 1852-1925.

Correspondence, clippings, legal briefs, financial papers, scrapbooks, and other materials concerning the career of Lochren, a Vermont lawyer who moved to St. Anthony (Minneapolis) in 1856, and served as city attorney (1863-1868, 1877-1878), state senator (1868-1870), judge in the fourth judicial district (1881-1893), U.S. commissioner of pensions (1893-1896), and U.S. district judge for Minnesota (1896-1907), and was a political activist on local, state, and national levels. Lochren also was chair of the Minnesota Civil and Indian War History Commission that prepared publication of: Minnesota in the Civil and Indian Wars.

5.5 cu. ft. (12 boxes, incl. 23 v.; 1 folder; 16 oversize items).

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SNAC Resource ID: 7314284

Minnesota Historical Society Library

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