Identifier: utahsincestateho02warr (find matches)
Title: Utah since statehood, historical and biographical
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Warrum, Noble Morse, Charles W Ewing, W. Brown
Subjects: Utah -- Biography Utah -- History
Publisher: Chicago--Salt Lake, The S. J. Clarke publishing company
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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s deeplyinterested in everything that tends to bring to man the key to the complex mysterywhich we call life. HON. SAMUEL R. THURMAN. Hon. Samuel R. Thurman, justice of the supreme court of Utah and recognizedas one of the ablest members who have sat upon the bench of that court of last resortin the state, makes his home in Salt Lake City, where he has resided since 1906.He is a native of Kentucky, his birth having occurred in Larue county, that state.on the 6th of May, 1S50. His parents were William T. and Mary Margaret (Brown)Thurman, The father died during the infancy of his son. His ancestors in the paternalline were preachers, farmers and lawyers, while in the maternal line he is descendedfrom John Yates, captain in the American Army of the Revolution, Judge Thurman came to Utah in 1870. In the meantime he had pursued hisearly education in the public schools of his native state, becoming a student in thehigh school of Locust Grove, Kentucky, and afterward in Sonora Academy. For a
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HON. SAMUEL R. THURMAN UTAH SINCE STATEHOOD 99 short time following the arrival of the family in the west he attended Deseret Uni-versity, now the University of Utah, and for a brief period was a student in the Brig-ham Young Academy. He took up the profession of teaching, which he followed foreight years in the public schools of this state, principally at Lehi, and during thatperiod he devoted his leisure hours to the study of law. For further preparation forthe profession he entered the law department of the University of Michigan at AnnArbor and was graduated therefrom with the class of 1880. With his return to Utahhe entered upon active practice at the bar. He had previously been admitted to thebar before the supreme court of Utah in 1878 and later was admitted to the UnitedStates district court of Utah. He commenced active practice in Provo in partner-ship with David Evans under the firm style of Thurman & Evans, which associationwas maintained until 1886, when Mr. Thurman be

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