Viewing 19th Century Courts Category (2) found: The author of
this paper was Loren Warren Collins, who served as associate
justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court from 1887 to 1904. He
died before he could finish it. It was to be a longer, written
version of a speech he gave in 1911 to the Hennepin County Bar
Association on the history of the bench and bar in Minnesota.
His son, Louis L. Collins, gave a draft of the paper containing
his father's handwritten additions and corrections to the
Minnesota Historical Society on January 9, 1913. This article is
an important resource because it lists the names and years of
service of all men who served on the supreme court from
statehood to the early twentieth century, the clerks and
reporters of the supreme court, and the judges of the nineteen
judicial districts. It appeared as a chapter in a multi-volume
history of Minnesota which was edited by Lucius F. Hubbard and
Rerturn I. Holcombe, and published in 1908.