Denver, James William (23 October 1817–09 August 1892), soldier, governor of Kansas Territory, and lawyer, was born near Winchester, Virginia, the son of Patrick Denver and Jane Campbell, farmers of Irish extraction. In 1831 his family migrated to a farm near Wilmington, Ohio. After a grade school education, James taught briefly at Platte City, Missouri, graduated from Cincinnati College (now the University of Cincinnati) in 1844, and was admitted to the bar. He opened a newspaper and law office in Xenia, Ohio, but after less than a year, in 1845, returned to Platte City, where he continued to practice both professions. After the outbreak of the Mexican War on 4 March 1847, Denver was appointed captain in the Twelfth Regiment, U.S. Volunteers, commanding a company he had raised, and was ordered to Mexico. Sick much of the time, he was ordered home on 26 October 1847....
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Denver, James William (1817-1892), soldier, governor of Kansas Territory, and lawyer
James A. Rawley
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Goodwin, John Noble (1824-1887), lawyer, congressman, and territorial governor of Arizona
Adam I. P. Smith
Goodwin, John Noble (18 October 1824–29 April 1887), lawyer, congressman, and territorial governor of Arizona, was born in South Berwick, Maine, the son of John Goodwin, a lawyer, and Mary Noble. He was educated at Berwick Academy and Dartmouth College. After graduating from Dartmouth in 1844, he returned to his home town, read law in the office of John Hubbard, and was admitted to the bar in 1848. In 1854 he was elected to the state senate from York County and the following year was appointed to a special commission to revise the laws of Maine. In 1857 he married Susan Howard; they had one child who survived to adulthood. Goodwin supported the establishment of the Republican party and in 1860 was elected to Congress from the First District with a majority of 1,462 votes. He did not deliver a major speech during his term in Congress, but he was a member of the House Committee on Invalid Pensions. Although the rest of the state remained strongly Republican in the fall elections of 1862, Goodwin lost in his district to his Democratic opponent, Lorenzo Sweat, by the narrow margin of 247 votes....
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Magoon, Charles Edward (1861-1920), lawyer and public servant
Joseph J. Gonzalez
Magoon, Charles Edward (05 December 1861–14 January 1920), lawyer and public servant, was born in Steele County, Minnesota, the son of Henry C. Magoon and Mehitable W. Clement. Magoon moved with his family to Platte County, Nebraska, shortly after the end of the Civil War. He studied in various programs at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln for three years in the late 1870s, leaving without a degree to study law in the firm of Mason and Whedon, which became Whedon and Magoon shortly after his admission to the bar in 1882. A respected member of the local legal community, Magoon often commented on legal issues for the ...
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McCook, Edward Moody (1833-1909), politician, lawyer, and soldier
Robert W. Larson
McCook, Edward Moody (15 June 1833–09 September 1909), politician, lawyer, and soldier, was born in Steubenville, Ohio, the son of John McCook, a physician, and Catharine Julia Sheldon. After being educated in the Steubenville public schools, McCook moved to Minnesota in 1849. When news of the highly publicized gold strikes in Colorado began to sweep the country, McCook was one of the fifty-niners involved in the rush to the new gold fields. He settled in the mining camp of Central City, where he amassed a respectable fortune. Moreover, he began to practice law and was elected to the Kansas legislature in 1859, when Colorado was still part of Kansas Territory. McCook was also a leader in the movement that led to the creation of Colorado as a separate territory on 28 February 1861, a month after Kansas became a state....
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Reeder, Andrew Horatio (1807-1864), lawyer and first governor of Kansas Territory
Eugene H. Berwanger
Reeder, Andrew Horatio (12 July 1807–05 July 1864), lawyer and first governor of Kansas Territory, was born in Easton, Pennsylvania, the son of Absolom Reeder, a merchant, and Christiana Smith. Reeder received his education at an academy in Lawrenceville, New Jersey; later he read law and was admitted to the Pennsylvania bar in 1828. He married Amelia Hutter in 1831 and fathered eight children, five of whom lived to adulthood....
