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See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
FIELD, See also:STEPHEN See also:- JOHNSON, ANDREW
- JOHNSON, ANDREW (1808–1875)
- JOHNSON, BENJAMIN (c. 1665-1742)
- JOHNSON, EASTMAN (1824–1906)
- JOHNSON, REVERDY (1796–1876)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD (1573–1659 ?)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD MENTOR (1781–1850)
- JOHNSON, SAMUEL (1709-1784)
- JOHNSON, SIR THOMAS (1664-1729)
- JOHNSON, SIR WILLIAM (1715–1774)
- JOHNSON, THOMAS
JOHNSON (1816-1899) , See also:American jurist, was See also:born at Haddam, See also:Connecticut, on the 4th of See also:November 1816. He was the See also:brother of See also:David See also:Dudley Field, See also:Cyrus W.
Field and See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry M. Field. At the See also:age of thirteen he accompanied his See also:sister See also:Emilia and her See also:husband the Rev. See also:Josiah See also:Brewer (the parents of the distinguished See also:judge of the Supreme See also:Court, David J. Brewer) to See also:Smyrna, See also:Turkey, for the purpose of studying See also:Oriental See also:languages, but after three years he returned to the See also:United States, and in 1837 graduated at See also:Williams See also:College at the See also:head of his class. He then studied See also:law in his See also:elder brother's See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office, and in 1841 he was admitted to the New See also:York See also:bar. He was associated in practice there with his brother until 1848, and See also:early in 1849 removed to See also:California, settling soon afterward at Marysville, of which See also:place, in 185o, he became the first See also:alcalde or See also:mayor. In the same See also:year he was chosen a member of the first See also:state legislature of California, in which he See also:drew up and secured the enactment of two bodies of law known as the See also:Civil and Criminal Practices Acts, based on the similar codes prepared by his brother David Dudley for New York. In the former See also:act he embodied a See also:provision regulating and giving authority to the See also:peculiar customs, usages, and regulations voluntarily adopted by the miners in various districts of the state for the See also:adjudication of disputed See also:mining claims. This, as Judge Field truly says, " was the See also:foundation of the See also:jurisprudence respecting mines in the See also:country," having greatly influenced legislation upon this subject in other states and in the See also:Congress of the United States. He was elected, in 1857, a See also:justice of the California Supreme Court, of which he became See also:chief justice in 1859, on the resignation of Judge David S. See also:Terry to fight the See also:duel with the United States senator David C. Broderick which ended fatally for the latter. Field held this position until 1863, when he was appointed by See also:President See also:Lincoln a justice of the United States Supreme Court. In this capacity he was conspicuous for fearless See also:independence of thought and See also:action in his See also:opinion in the test See also:oath See also:case, and in his dissenting opinions in the legal See also:tender, See also:conscription and " slaughter See also:house " cases, which displayed unusual legal learning, and gave powerful expression to his strict constructionist theory of the implied See also:powers of the Federal constitution. Originally a Democrat, and always a believer in states' rights, his strong See also:Union sentiments caused him nevertheless to accept Lincoln's See also:doctrine of See also:coercion, and that, together with his See also:anti-See also:slavery sympathies, led him to act with the Re-publican party during the See also:period of the Civil See also:War. He was a member of the See also:commission which revised the California See also:code in 1873 and of the Electoral Commission in 1877, voting in favour of See also:Tilden. In 188o he received sixty-five votes on the first See also:ballot for the presidential nomination at the Democratic See also:National See also:Convention at See also:Cincinnati. In See also:August 1889, as a result of a ruling in the course of the See also:Sharon-See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
Hill litigation, a notorious See also:conspiracy case, he was assaulted in a California railway station by Judge David S. Terry, who in turn was shot and killed by a United States See also:deputy See also:marsh all appointed to defend Justice Field against the carrying out of Terry's often-expressed threats. He retired from the Supreme Court on the 1st of See also:December 1897 after a service of See also:thirty-four years and six months, the longest in the court's See also:history, and died in See also:Washington on the 9th of See also:April 1899.
His See also:Personal Reminiscences of Early Days in California, originally privately printed in 1878, was republished in 1893 with See also:George C. Gorham's See also:Story of the Attempted Assassination of Justice Field.
End of Article: FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
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