The Bench and bar of StLouis, Kansas City, Jefferson City, and other Missouri cities : biographical sketches . actice by Chief Justice Simpson, at Winchester, in 1056. inthe anttimn of that year he was married to Carrie W., datighter of Samuel Jack-son, ol Lexington, she being a lady ol line mental and social accomplishmonts;and the iu-.\t year after this union Mi, Crittenden immigrated to this state, andopened a law ollice at Lexington, alter being admitted to tlu! Missouri bar byJudge Hicks. He became a partner of Judge John A. S. Tutt, and was not long in securinga good practice. He was doi
The Bench and bar of StLouis, Kansas City, Jefferson City, and other Missouri cities : biographical sketches . actice by Chief Justice Simpson, at Winchester, in 1056. inthe anttimn of that year he was married to Carrie W., datighter of Samuel Jack-son, ol Lexington, she being a lady ol line mental and social accomplishmonts;and the iu-.\t year after this union Mi, Crittenden immigrated to this state, andopened a law ollice at Lexington, alter being admitted to tlu! Missouri bar byJudge Hicks. He became a partner of Judge John A. S. Tutt, and was not long in securinga good practice. He was doing liiiely in his profession when the civil war brokeout. He promptly t;ntere<l the federal service, and (iovernoi- (lamble commis-sioned him lieutenant colonel of the ylh regiment Missouri state mditia, underColonel John V. Phillips, who was one of his classmates in college. His record in the army was as manly and honorable as his course has alwaysbeen in private or civil life. Part of the time during the war, he was attorneygeneral of the state, uiuler appointment of (lovernor Hall. On being mustered. / T/?-/-^i6v ColuiiL-l Crittenden S(.ttled at Warrens-biirpli, wheie lie soon rose 1(j proiiiineiu e at llie his jiidieial circuit. In i8()7 Colonel Ciitlendcn and Senator V M. Cockrell fornie<l a copartner-shii) for the practice of the law, at Warrensluiri^h, tlie county seal of Johnsoncounty, which continued until viriuallv dissolved by the election of GeneralCockrell to a seat in the United States senate, in January, 1875. During thoseyears no law lirm in Missouri was more widely known. Colonel Crittenden wasa conscientious, painstaking lawyer, of sound judgment, and, at that time, ofripe experience. He was well \ersed both in the elementary principles andsci<-iice of his profession, and in the ap|ilicatiou of those principles inthe court house, lie was both a safe counselor and [ileader, and an elotjuentand successful advocate as well ; a rare
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