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Born 1810
From History of Saint Louis city and county from the earliest periods to the present day [microform] : including biographical sketches of representative men (1883), Encyclopedia of the history of St. Louis, a compendium of history and biography for ready reference (v. 3) (1899)
Charles B. Lord, who died in St. Louis Nov. 15, 1868, was the successor of Edward Bates as judge of the land court. At the time of his death he was one of the Circuit Court judges. He had held the important land court judgeship for two terms, beginning in 1855. Judge Lord was a native of Thomaston, Me, born in 1810, was educated in Onondaga County, N. Y., studies law at Buffalo, was admitted in 1833, and removed to St. Louis in 1843. Mean- while he had married Miss Wiley, of Philadelphia. His first law partner in St, Louis was Myron Leslie, and when the latter died, in 1848, he was associated with Isaac Kiem. From 1855, as noted, he held judicial offices, and always with credit to himself, In the laws pertaining to real estate he was particularly strong, <A leading journal, in announcing his death, paid, — Judge Lord was a man of no ordinary qualities of mind. Even had he never occupied a public position, his eminence in his profession would have given him a reputation extending beyond Incal limits, But he was peculiarly fitted for the bench. He possessed a clear, analytical, unwarped judgment and a remarkable perception. We would not assert that his decisions asa jurist were invariably correct, but undoubtedly they were always based upon his best and most conscientious interpretation of the law.”
In court he was often severe towards young law-
) yers, but his uprightness and anxiety to deal out a sociable and kindly man, who had hosts of friends, justice impartially were proverbial.
Abram Beck came to St. Louis from Albany,'N. Y., in 1819, as a lawyer and land agent, and was associated for a brief period with Josiah Spalding. He died Sept. 4, 1821, a young man, unmarried.
A son of the Old Dominion, who honored the best traditions of the courtly and cordial past, was Judge
As printed in History of Saint Louis city and county from the earliest periods to the present day [microform] : including biographical sketches of representative men (1883). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
Lord, Charles B., lawyer and jurist, was born in Thomaston, Maine, in 1810, and died in St. Louis, in 1868. He was educated in New York State, studied Jaw at Buffalo and was admitted to the bar in 1833. Hecame to St. Louis in 1843 and practiced in the courts of this city until 1855, when he was appointed judge of the land court. After holding that office two terms he was chosen judge of the circuit court in 1866 and ‘held that office until his death. He was a man of no ordinary qualities of mind and was peculiarly fitted for the bench, possessing a clear, analytical, unwarped judgment and a remarkable perception.
Lord Coleridge’s Visit.—June 27, 1883, John Duke Coleridge, then Lord Chief Justice of England, visited St. Louis while making a tour of the United States. He was entertained by the bar and leading citizens of this city in a manner befitting his high station.
As printed in Encyclopedia of the history of St. Louis, a compendium of history and biography for ready reference (v. 3) (1899). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
Named in this biography: Edward Bates (b. 1703)
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