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Sarah Burr Reeve |
Home |
Tapping Reeve has a house built in Litchfield, Connecticut. |
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| 1774/00/00 |
Tapping Reeve |
Work |
Tapping Reeve opens the first law school in America. |
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| 1774/00/00 |
Aaron Burr Jr |
Education |
Aaron Burr graduates from Litchfield Law School. |
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| 1778/00/00 |
Uriah Tracy |
Education |
Uriah Tracy graduates from Litchfield Law School. |
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| 1778/09/00 |
Oliver Wolcott Jr |
Education |
Yale graduate, Oliver Wolcott Jr, enters Litchfield Law School, studying under Tapping Reeve. |
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| 1780/00/00 |
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Bates Turner graduates from Litchfield Law School. |
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| 1784/00/00 |
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John Allen graduates from Litchfield Law School. |
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| 1784/00/00 |
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To provide space for classes, Reeve erects a small building beside his residence for use as a law school. |
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| 1792/00/00 |
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Nicholas Ware graduates from Litchfield Law School. |
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| 1794/00/00 |
Roger Minott Sherman |
Education |
Son of Rev Josiah Sherman, Roger Minott Sherman, graduates from Litchfield Law School. |
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| 1794/00/00 |
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Ezekiel Bacon graduates from Litchfield Law School. |
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| 1796/00/00 |
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John Stark Edwards graduates from Litchfield Law School. |
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| 1797/00/00 |
Judge Henry Baldwin |
Education |
Future Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court, Henry Baldwin, graduates from Litchfield Law School. |
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| 1797/00/00 |
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Future Connecticut Governor, Samuel A Foot, graduates from Litchfield Law School. |
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| 1797/00/00 |
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Thomas Day graduates from Litchfield Law School. |
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| 1798/00/00 |
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Richard Skinner graduates from Litchfield Law School. |
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| 1798/00/00 |
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Horatio Seymour graduates from Litchfield Law School. |
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| 1800/00/00 |
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Hopkins Holsey graduates from Litchfield Law School. |
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| 1801/00/00 |
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Future US Representative, Benjamin Swift, graduates from Litchfield Law School. |
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| 1801/00/00 |
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Elisha Phelps graduates from Litchfield Law School. |
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| 1805/00/00 |
Judge Samuel Howe |
Education |
Samuel Howe is a student at Litchfield Law School. |
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| 1805/00/00 |
John C Calhoun |
Education |
John Caldwell Calhoun graduates from Litchfield Law School. |
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| 1805/00/00 |
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John A Collier graduates from Litchfield Law School. |
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| 1805/00/00 |
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Lemuel Whitman graduates from Litchfield Law School. |
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| 1805/00/00 |
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Stephen Upson graduates from Litchfield Law School. |
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| 1806/00/00 |
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Joel Crawford graduates from Litchfield Law School. |
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| 1806/00/00 |
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John Myers Felder graduates from Litchfield Law School. |
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| 1806/00/00 |
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Future Associate Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, Theron Metcalf, graduates from Litchfield Law School. |
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| 1806/00/00 |
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Amos Ellmaker graduates from Litchfield Law School. |
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| 1807/00/00 |
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Future US Senator, Perry Smith, graduates from Litchfield Law School. |
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| 1809/00/00 |
Rev John Pierpont |
Education |
John Pierpont read law at the school Justices Reeve and Gould. |
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| 1809/00/00 |
Levi Woodbury |
Education |
Future US Supreme Court Justice Levi Woodbury attends Litchfield Law School. |
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| 1810/00/00 |
James Gore King |
Education |
James G King graduates from the Litchfield Law School. |
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| 1811/00/00 |
William Wolcott Ellsworth |
Education |
William W Ellsworth attends the Litchfield Law School. After studying at Litchfield Law School Ellsworth will study in the office of Thomas Scott Williams in Hartford, CT. |
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| 1811/00/00 |
Nathaniel Mather, Lawyer |
Education |
Nathaniel Mather attends Litchfield Law School. |
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| 1811/00/00 |
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Frederick A Tallmadge graduates from Litchfield Law School. |
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| 1811/00/00 |
Henry Leavitt Ellsworth |
Education |
Henry Leavitt Ellsworth graduates from Litchfield Law School. |
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| 1812/00/00 |
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Edmund H Bennett graduates from Litchfield Law School. |
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| 1812/00/00 |
Roger Sherman Baldwin |
Education |
Son of Simeon Baldwin and the grandson of Roger Sherman, Roger Sherman Baldwin, graduates from Litchfield Law School. |
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| 1812/00/00 |
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Future United States Senator and Attorney General of Rhode Island, Albert C Greene, graduates from Litchfield Law School. |
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| 1813/00/00 |
Sen Charles G Loring |
Education |
Charles Greeley Loring studies at Litchfield Law School. |
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| 1813/00/00 |
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Elisha Dana Whittlesey graduates from Litchfield Law School. |
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| 1813/00/00 |
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Future US Senator from Rhode Island 1844-45, John Brown Francis, graduates from Litchfield Law School. |
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| 1816/00/00 |
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Thomas Flournoy Foster graduates from Litchfield Law School. |
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| 1817/00/00 |
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George Catlin graduates from Litchfield Law School. |
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| 1817/00/00 |
John M Clayton |
Education |
Future US Senator and Secretary of State, John M Clayton, graduates from Litchfield Law School. |
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| 1817/00/00 |
Lucius Q C Lamar I |
Education |
Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar I graduates from Litchfield Law School. |
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| 1817/00/00 |
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Future US Senator, Truman Smith, graduates from Litchfield Law School. |
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| 1817/00/00 |
William Crosby Dawson |
Education |
William Crosby Dawson graduates from Litchfield Law School. |
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| 1818/00/00 |
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Thomas T Whittlesey graduates from Litchfield Law School. |
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| 1818/00/00 |
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Chester Pierce Butler Jr graduates from Litchfield Law School. |
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| 1819/00/00 |
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Frederick Whittlesey graduates from Litchfield Law School. |
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| 1821/00/00 |
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Future Governor of Louisiana, Joshua Baker, graduates from Litchfield Law School. |
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| 1822/00/00 |
Horace Mann |
Education |
Horace Mann graduates from Litchfield Law School. |
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| 1823/00/00 |
Edward G Loring |
Education |
Edward G Loring graduates from the Litchfield Law School. Loring began reading law in Litchfield in 1821. |
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| 1823/00/00 |
William Beach Lawrence |
Education |
William Beach Lawrence graduates from Litchfield Law School. |
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| 1823/00/00 |
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Eugenius Aristides Nisbet graduates from Litchfield Law School. |
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| 1823/00/00 |
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William J Bacon graduates from Litchfield Law School. |
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| 1824/00/00 |
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James Bell graduates from Litchfield Law School. |
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| 1824/00/00 |
Rutger Bleecker Miller |
Education |
Rutger B Miller graduates from Litchfield Law School. |
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| 1827/00/00 |
George Arnold Brayton |
Education |
Arriving in 1825, George Arnold Brayton completes studies at Litchfield Law School and returns to his hometown of Warwick, Rhode Island where he begins to practice law. |
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| 1828/00/00 |
Hon George William Clinton |
Education |
Son of DeWitt Clinton and future Mayor of Buffalo, George W Clinton, graduates from Litchfield Law School. |
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| 1830/00/00 |
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Future Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, Ward Hunt, graduates from Litchfield Law School. |
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| 1833/00/00 |
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Augustus Romaldus Wright graduates from Litchfield Law School. |
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