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Title: History of the bench and bar of California: being biographies of many remarkable men, a store of humorous and pathetic recollections, accounts of important legislation and extraordinary cases, comprehending the judicial history of the state
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Shuck, Oscar T. (Oscar Tully), 1843-1905
Subjects: Milton H. Myrick (Lawyers Judges Courts Celebrated cases)
Publisher: Los Angeles, Cal. : The Commercial printing house
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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n both the fathers andmothers side—one ancestor, Samuel Foster,with twelve sons, having served as soldiers inthe patriot army. Judge and Mrs. Nye havetwo children, Mrs. Myrtle, wife of ThomasH. Davis of Tulare County, Cal., and HarrietL. Nve of Oakland. MILTON H. MYRICK. Milton H. Myrick, a Justice of the StateSupreme Court for the term of seven jcars,ending in January, 1887, was born May 28,i.Sjf), on a farm near Paris Hill, in Oneidaciinnly, Xew ^ork. His father was Rev.Luther Myrick, who was of New Englandextraction, his ancestor. Ensign William My-rick, having settled at Eastham, Massachusetts,on C.ipe Cod, in 1646, and served six yearsundiT Miles Standisb. Rev. Luther Myrick,as minister, was located at different times in))laces in Central New York: Manlius, Oswe-go, Cazennvia: be was a member of the con-vention wbicb met at Utica in 1835 to formtlu first New York State Anti-Slavery So-ciety, lie was a friend and associate of Rev.Charles (,. Iinne\-. later of 01)erlin. ;ind Ger-
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M, H. Myrick History of the Bench and Bar of California. ■29 rit Smith, of Peterboro. He edited andpublished a weekly paper in Oswego, wherethe boy learned to set type, and later removedto Cazenovia, where young Myrick continuedto work in the printing office, and attendedschool at the Cazenovia Seminary. Hon. S.H. Dwindle, afterwards judge in San Fran-cisco, was a boy there, as were W. W. Mon-tague, Esq.. now postmaster of San Francisco,the late Rev. A. W. Loomis, Charles DudleyWarner, and Hon. J. R. Hawley, the latternow United States senator from Conecticut.In May, 1843, the family moved and locatedupon a new farm in Jackson county. Michi-pan, where tlie father died in September fol-lowing. The boy then returned to printing,and worked at different offices, during theyears 1845, 1846. and 1847, in Jackson. Syra-cuse. Albany, New York City, and in the gov-ernment office in Washington. In Albany heworked on the Albany Argus. Edwin Cross-well, editor and proprietor; Edward Gilbertwas

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