Frank A. Haskell was born July 13th, 1828 in Tunbridge, Vermont. In the fall of 1848, Haskell left New England for the Midwest, and joined his brother Harrison in Columbus, Wisconsin. Harrison was a prominent citizen of the town, and Frank managed to pick up the positions of Town Clerk and Superintendent of Schools. Frank headed [...]
Famous Legal Arguments is a book by Moses Field, published in 1897. It includes the legal argument of future Attorney General, Edwin M. Stanton, who was practicing law in 1859, when N.Y. Congressman Daniel Sickles killed Philip Barton Key II. Key was the son of Star Spangled Banner composer, Francis Scott Key, and was sleeping [...]
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Ambrose Bierce was born in Ohio on June 24th, 1842. He was the 10th of 13 children of Marcus Aurelius Bierce and his wife Laura. The family moved to Warsaw, Indiana in 1848. By all accounts, Ambrose did not have a happy childhood and received little attention, getting lost in the shuffle of so many [...]
