Background
Redfield, Isaac Fletcher was born on April 10, 1804 in Weathersfield, Vermont, United States. Son of Doctor Peleg and Hannah (Parker) Redfield.
Redfield, Isaac Fletcher was born on April 10, 1804 in Weathersfield, Vermont, United States. Son of Doctor Peleg and Hannah (Parker) Redfield.
Graduate Dartmouth, 1825.
Number of children uncertain, none survived him. Admitted to bar, Orleans County, Vermont, 1827. States attorney Orleans County, 1832-1835.
Justice Vermont Supreme Court, 1835-1860, chief justice, 1852-1860.
Professor medical jurisprudence Dartmouth, 1858-1861. Appointed special counsel for United States to prosecute claims in British Court Justices for property held by Confederates and for losses caused by privateers fitted out in England, 1867-1869.
Published Practical Treatise upon the Laws of Railways, 1858. Published Reading American Railway Cases, 1870, added 2d volunteer, 1872.
Prepared edits of Conflict of Laws and Equity Pleading (Joseph Story), published 1865, 70, Greenleaf’s Evidence, published 1866.
New England editor American Law Register, 1862-1876. Published (posthumously) Law of Wills, 3d edit, 3 volumes, 1864.
Married Mary Ward Smith, September 28, 1836. Married second, Catherine Blanchard Clark, May 4, 1842.