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Field, Roswell Martin

Field, Roswell Martin

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22 Feb. 1807

Newfane, VT, Records of Marriages, Births, and Deaths, 1761–1994, vol. 1, p. 155, 22 Feb. 1807, microfilm 28,594, U.S. and Canada Record Collection, FHL.

Comprehensive Works Cited

U.S. and Canada Record Collection. FHL.

–12 July 1869.

“Death of R. M. Field,” Missouri Democrat (St. Louis), 13 July 1869, [4]; Fish, “Roswell M. Field,” 232.

Comprehensive Works Cited

Fish, Frank L. “Roswell M. Field, 1807–1869.” In Proceedings of the Vermont Historical Society for the Years 1923, 1924 and 1925. Bellows Falls, VT: P. H. Gobie Press, 1926.

Attorney, politician.

Bay, Reminiscences of the Bench and Bar of Missouri, 236–241; Fish, “Roswell M. Field,” 229–247; Melvin L. Gray, “Recollections of Judge Roswell M. Field,” in Stewart, History of the Bench and Bar of Missouri, 127–129.

Comprehensive Works Cited

Bay, W. V. N. Reminiscences of the Bench and Bar of Missouri. . . . St. Louis: F. H. Thomas, 1878.

Fish, Frank L. “Roswell M. Field, 1807–1869.” In Proceedings of the Vermont Historical Society for the Years 1923, 1924 and 1925. Bellows Falls, VT: P. H. Gobie Press, 1926.

Stewart, A. J. D., ed. The History of the Bench and Bar of Missouri. With Reminiscences of the Prominent Lawyers of the Past, and a Record of the Law’s Leaders of the Present. St. Louis: Legal Publishing Co., 1898.

Born in Newfane, Windham Co., Vermont.

Newfane, VT, Records of Marriages, Births, and Deaths, 1761–1994, vol. 1, p. 155, 22 Feb. 1807, microfilm 28,594, U.S. and Canada Record Collection, FHL.

Comprehensive Works Cited

U.S. and Canada Record Collection. FHL.

Son of Martin Field and Esther Smith Kellogg.

Newfane, VT, Records of Marriages, Births, and Deaths, 1761–1994, vol. 1, p. 155, 22 Feb. 1807, microfilm 28,594, U.S. and Canada Record Collection, FHL; Fish, “Roswell M. Field,” 230.

Comprehensive Works Cited

U.S. and Canada Record Collection. FHL.

Fish, Frank L. “Roswell M. Field, 1807–1869.” In Proceedings of the Vermont Historical Society for the Years 1923, 1924 and 1925. Bellows Falls, VT: P. H. Gobie Press, 1926.

Graduated from Middlebury College, 1822, in Middlebury, Addison Co., Vermont.

“Necrology of Middlebury College, 1868–69,” Burlington (VT) Free Press, 7 Aug. 1869, [3]; Boyce, Catalogue of the Officers and Alumni of Middlebury College, 53; Melvin L. Gray, “Recollections of Judge Roswell M. Field,” in Stewart, History of the Bench and Bar of Missouri, 127.

Comprehensive Works Cited

Boyce, Thomas E., comp. Catalogue of the Officers and Alumni of Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont and All Others Who Have Received Degrees, 1800 to 1889. Middlebury, VT: Register Co., 1890.

State attorney for Windham Co., 1831–1836.

Boyce, Catalogue of the Officers and Alumni of Middlebury College, 53.

Comprehensive Works Cited

Boyce, Thomas E., comp. Catalogue of the Officers and Alumni of Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont and All Others Who Have Received Degrees, 1800 to 1889. Middlebury, VT: Register Co., 1890.

Served in Vermont House of Representatives, 1835–1836.

Fish, “Roswell M. Field,” 232; Melvin L. Gray, “Recollections of Judge Roswell M. Field,” in Stewart, History of the Bench and Bar of Missouri, 127; Boyce, Catalogue of the Officers and Alumni of Middlebury College, 53.

Comprehensive Works Cited

Fish, Frank L. “Roswell M. Field, 1807–1869.” In Proceedings of the Vermont Historical Society for the Years 1923, 1924 and 1925. Bellows Falls, VT: P. H. Gobie Press, 1926.

Boyce, Thomas E., comp. Catalogue of the Officers and Alumni of Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont and All Others Who Have Received Degrees, 1800 to 1889. Middlebury, VT: Register Co., 1890.

Moved to St. Louis, 1839.

Fish, “Roswell M. Field,” 231–232; Bay, Reminiscences of the Bench and Bar of Missouri, 237; Melvin L. Gray, “Recollections of Judge Roswell M. Field,” in Stewart, History of the Bench and Bar of Missouri, 127.

Comprehensive Works Cited

Fish, Frank L. “Roswell M. Field, 1807–1869.” In Proceedings of the Vermont Historical Society for the Years 1923, 1924 and 1925. Bellows Falls, VT: P. H. Gobie Press, 1926.

Bay, W. V. N. Reminiscences of the Bench and Bar of Missouri. . . . St. Louis: F. H. Thomas, 1878.

Married Frances Maria Reed, 31 May 1848, in St. Louis.

St. Louis City Recorder, Marriage Records of St. Louis and St. Louis County, 1806–1965, vol. 4, p. 193, 31 May 1848, microfilm 528,174, U.S. and Canada Record Collection, FHL.

Comprehensive Works Cited

U.S. and Canada Record Collection. FHL.

One of several plaintiff’s attorneys in Dred Scott v. Sandford, 1852–1857.

Fish, “Roswell M. Field,” 238–243; Bay, Reminiscences of the Bench and Bar of Missouri, 241.

Comprehensive Works Cited

Fish, Frank L. “Roswell M. Field, 1807–1869.” In Proceedings of the Vermont Historical Society for the Years 1923, 1924 and 1925. Bellows Falls, VT: P. H. Gobie Press, 1926.

Bay, W. V. N. Reminiscences of the Bench and Bar of Missouri. . . . St. Louis: F. H. Thomas, 1878.

Member of the St. Louis bar.

“Death of R. M. Field,” Missouri Democrat (St. Louis), 13 July 1869, [4]; “The Late R. M. Field,” Missouri Democrat, 15 July 1869, [4].

Died in St. Louis.

“Death of R. M. Field,” Missouri Democrat (St. Louis), 13 July 1869, [4].

Field, Roswell Martin

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