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Edgar Aldrich was born on February 5, 1848 at Pittsburg, New Hampshire, United States. He was the son of Ephraim and Adaline (Haynes) Aldrich, and a descendant of George Aldrich, who came from Derbyshire, England, in 1631.
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The Making of the Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926 includes over 20,000 analytical, theoretical and practical works on American and British Law. It includes the writings of major legal theorists, including Sir Edward Coke, Sir William Blackstone, James Fitzjames Stephen, Frederic William Maitland, John Marshall, Joseph Story, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. and Roscoe Pound, among others. Legal Treatises includes casebooks, local practice manuals, form books, works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, speeches and other works of the most influential writers of their time. It is of great value to researchers of domestic and international law, government and politics, legal history, business and economics, criminology and much more. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ Harvard Law School Library CTRG96-B1113 Delivered in the New Hampshire Constitutional Convention, December 16, 1902 ... ." "Stenographically reported by Fremont E. Shustleff. Concord, N.H. : Rumford Print Co., 1903. 39 p. ; 23 cm
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Edgar Aldrich was born on February 5, 1848 at Pittsburg, New Hampshire, United States. He was the son of Ephraim and Adaline (Haynes) Aldrich, and a descendant of George Aldrich, who came from Derbyshire, England, in 1631.
Aldrich obtained his early education in the common schools, and went in 1862 to Colebrook Academy. In 1865 he commenced the study of law at Colebrook, subsequently proceeding to the University of Michigan, where he obtained his law degree in 1868.
Aldrich received Dartmouth College Honorary Master of Arts degree in 1891, Dartmouth College Honorary Degree in 1901, and the University of Michigan Honorary Doctor of Law degree in 1907.
Aldrich was called to the New Hampshire bar in August 1868 and started practise at Colebrook. He was appointed solicitor for Coos County in 1872 and again in 1876. In January 1881 he removed to Littleton, which he made his permanent home.
In 1884 he was elected to the legislature as representative for Littleton. Though without legislative experience he was elected Speaker and displayed conspicuous ability in that position. This was his only term in the legislature. His law practise was extensive, but, having a distaste for office routine, he confined himself almost exclusively to court work, holding briefs in most of the important local litigation of his time.
On February 20, 1891, he was commissioned United States district judge of the district of New Hampshire, a position which he held for over thirty years. The judicial qualities he developed, combined with a natural dignity and courtesy, procured for him universal confidence and respect, and he was frequently called upon to sit in the circuit court of appeals for the first judicial district. In 1907, during the famous Eddy litigation, he was appointed Master to inquire whether Mrs. Eddy was capable of intelligently managing her financial interests.
As a delegate from Littleton he attended the constitutional convention at Concord in December 1902. His commanding presence, intimate knowledge of every subject which came before the assembled delegates, together with the great esteem and confidence in which he was held, made him a powerful factor. His impressive speech upon trusts and combinations and against "the slavery of criminal monopoly, " had great influence in inducing the convention to propose an amendment empowering the legislature to regulate trusts, which was subsequently approved by the electorate and incorporated in the constitution.
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Aldrich married Louise Matilda Remick of Hardwick, Vermont on October 7, 1872. The couple had two children.