![]() ![]() After serving in the Idaho Territorial Assembly as a Republican representing Boise County, he departed for Cheyenne, Dakota Territory, in late 1867. In 1862, he moved on to Idaho Territory, where he was engaged in mining and served as the assistant U.S. ![]() Brown, as he was most often called, left his home and traveled via ship and the Isthmus of Panama to the California gold fields. ![]() Melville Cox Brown was born near Vassalboro, Maine, most likely in 1835, though the exact year is not clear. Supreme Court, he successfully challenged longstanding estate law that protected a widow’s right of dower. He challenged the right of a woman to sit on a jury he opposed the illegal fencing of federal land he helped defend the invaders of Johnson County after the so-called Johnson County War and, before the U.S. ![]() President William McKinley’s appointment of Brown to a federal judgeship in Alaska in 1900 proved disastrous for the attorney, however, who returned to Wyoming where he continued to practice law, but on a much smaller scale.īrown’s cases engaged some of the most significant legal issues of his time in the West. Brown’s legal career spanned 60 years and thousands of cases during the years Wyoming was moving from territory through early statehood. ![]()
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