History of Chesterhill, (Morgan County) Ohio United States of America

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Charles Burke Elliott, jurist, was born near Chester Hill, Morgan county, Ohio, Jan. 6, 1861; son of Edward Elliott; grandson of Resha Elliott, and a descendant of John Eliot, the apostle to the Indians. He attended Marietta college, and the law department of the State university of Iowa, and was graduated Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. He was engaged in the practice of law in Minneapolis, Minn., from 1885 to January, 1891, when he was appointed judge of the municipal court of Minneapolis. He served until January, 1894, when he was appointed judge of the district court of Minnesota. He was afterward presiding judge of the fourth district. In 1889 he became a lecturer on constitutional history, and the law of corporation and insurance in the college of law of the University of Minnesota, and in 1898 was lecturer on international law. He was given the honorary degree of LL.D. by Iowa state university in 1895. He is the author of numerous contributions to American and foreign reviews and magazines, chiefly on questions connected with jurisprudence and public international law, and published: The United States and the Northeastern Fisheries. A History of the Fishery Question (1887); The Law of Private Corporations (1897); The Law of Insurance (1898); and The Law of Public Corporations (1898). To the American and English Encyclop?dia of Law he contributed the articles on Bonds and Municipal Securities. Among his more important contributions to magazines are: The "Behring Sea Question," Atlantic Monthly, (1890); "The Legislatures and the Courts," Political Science Quarterly (1890); "The Treaty Making Power Under the Constitution," Revue G?n?rale de Droit International Public (Paris, 1898); "Judicial Control over Legislative Power in the United States of America," Journal du Droit International et Public, St. Petersburg (1897); and Review of Legislation in the United States for 1896, Jahrbuch der Internationaler vereinigurg f?r vergleichende Rechtswissenscraft und volswirtschafslehre zu Berlin.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

History of Chesterhill, (Morgan County) Ohio

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