Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1910-05-13

Alva E. Taylor, Judge of the Ninth
Judicial Circuit of South Dakota, re.
siding at Huron, Is a candidate at the
June primaries on the Republican tick
ct to succeed himself.
Alya X. Taylor came to South Da-
kota from Cherokee, Iowa, in 1882
and opened a law Office at Huron, and
was for many years attorney for The
Dakota Farm Mortgage Company and
North American Loan and Trust Com
pany. This company loaned money
throughout the west and largely in the
Dakotas, and Mr.. Taylor became so
familiar with their business that in
1891, when the company's principal Of
fee was moved to Chicago, the Da-
kota business was placed under his
supervision, and in 1892 they re-
quested him to go to Chicago
and take charge of their legal
business. He was with them there
for several years, but in 1899 he re-
turned to Huron and formed a law
partnership with the late John l..
Pyle; and when Mr.. Pyle was elected
Attorney General of the state, Mr..
Taylor was appointed assistant. Mr..
Pyle died during his term of Office and
Judge A. w. Burt was appointed as
his successor, Mr.. Taylor being re-
tanned as assistant.
After the death of Hon. John l..
Pyle a law partnership was formed
with Hon. Coe /. Crawford, under the
firm name of Crawford G. Taylor.
Later A. Z. Fairbank was taken into
the firm and they enjoyed In extern
sive practice, but the firm was dis
solved after Mr.. Crawford became
governor.
Upon the death Of Hon. Howard G..
EULER, Judge Of the Supreme Court,
Hon. Charles S. Whiting, of De Smet,
then Judge Of the Ninth Circuit, was
appointed to fill the vacancy. The
bar of the Ninth Circuit and many
prominent citizens of the state en-
dorsed MIR. Taylor as a candidate to
fill the acancy on the circuit bench,
and in November, 1908, he was ap-
pointed by the governor to this po-
sition.
Mr.. Taylor has mad a satisfactory
Judge. He is careful and conscien-
tious, a constant student and a hard
worker. He is a member of the Am
erican Bar Association, to which body
be was at it's last meeting a dele
gate from the South Dakota Bar AS
ISOLATION. He is also a member of
the American Institute of Criminal
Law and Crimirology; is a firm be-
lever in the new methods OF re
formatory punishments" and a re-
formed criminal procedure, n is in
sympathy with the legislation on these
lines passed at the last session Of the
legislature of South Dakota.
During his stay in Chicago, Judge
Taylor improved his opportunities to
take post graduate work in the law
schools and has degrees of Master OF
Laws, Doctor of the Civil Law, and
Doctor of Laws. and or some time he
laugh. in a law school there on the
subjects of Real Property and Com
| mercial Paper. On several occasions
he has lectured at the Law School OF
the University of South Dakota.
Although a busy man in his profess
sion he found time TO assist the
of education, and for a number or
years was president of the Board Of
Education of Huron, and later one OF
the Trustees of Huron College. On
educational matters Judge Taylor
sayr: 1.-THE ultimate hope of this ma
ton is not in its Big Navy, as that is
but a temporary expedient, but in it's
magnificent school system, as that
will last forever"
The subject of this sketch was
born at Rock Island, ILL.,, in 1859, and
was married in 1882 to Eugenia
Cowles. They have n son, Eugene,
now attending Huron College.
ASHER Z. PAY.