HISTORY OF THE NEW HAMPSHIRE FEDERAL COURTS Prepared by the Clerk’s Office of the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire - 1991 1 HISTORY OF THE NEW HAMPSHIRE FEDERAL COURTS TABLE OF CONTENTS PREFACE & ACKNOWLEDGMENT .......................................................................................... 5 INTRODUCTION .......................................................................................................................... 7 THE UNITED STATES CIRCUIT COURT ................................................................................ 11 Time Line for the Circuit Court and Related Courts ................................................................ 19 JUDGES OF THE CIRCUIT COURT ......................................................................................... 20 John Lowell ............................................................................................................................... 20 Benjamin Bourne ...................................................................................................................... 21 Jeremiah Smith.......................................................................................................................... 21 George Foster Shepley .............................................................................................................. 22 John Lowell ............................................................................................................................... 23 Francis Cabot Lowell ................................................................................................................ 23 CASES FROM THE UNITED STATES CIRCUIT COURT FOR NEW HAMPSHIRE ........... 24 The Midnight Judges................................................................................................................. 24 A Case from Justice Story and Judge Sherburne ...................................................................... 25 Proceedings from the October Term of 1858 ........................................................................... 26 A Case of Justice Nathan Clifford and Judge Harvey .............................................................. 26 Proceedings from the New Era ................................................................................................. 28 THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT .............................................................................. 29 JUDGES OF THE DISTRICT COURT ....................................................................................... 34 John Sullivan ............................................................................................................................. 34 John Pickering ........................................................................................................................... 36 John Samuel Sherburne............................................................................................................. 38 Matthew Harvey ........................................................................................................................ 39 Daniel Clark .............................................................................................................................. 39 Edgar Aldrich ............................................................................................................................ 40 George F. Morris ....................................................................................................................... 41 Aloysius J. Connor .................................................................................................................... 42 Hugh H. Bownes ....................................................................................................................... 43 Shane Devine ............................................................................................................................ 44 Martin F. Loughlin .................................................................................................................... 45 Norman H. Stahl ....................................................................................................................... 45 2 Joseph A. DiClerico, Jr ............................................................................................................. 46 Paul J. Barbadoro ...................................................................................................................... 46 Steven J. McAuliffe .................................................................................................................. 46 Joseph N. Laplante .................................................................................................................... 47 Landya B. McCafferty .............................................................................................................. 48 CASES FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR NEW HAMPSHIRE ......... 49 A Case of Judge Sullivan .......................................................................................................... 49 A Case of Judge Pickering ........................................................................................................ 50 A Case of Judge Harvey ........................................................................................................... 50 A Case of Judge Clark .............................................................................................................. 51 A Case of Judge Morris ............................................................................................................ 53 A Case of Judge Connor ........................................................................................................... 54 A Case of Judge Bownes .......................................................................................................... 56 A Case of Judge Devine ............................................................................................................ 57 A Case of Judge Loughlin......................................................................................................... 58 THE CLERKS OF THE COURT ................................................................................................. 60 Jonathan Steele .......................................................................................................................... 62 Richard Cutts Shannon ............................................................................................................. 62 George Washington Prescott..................................................................................................... 63 Peyton R. Freeman .................................................................................................................... 63 William Claggett ....................................................................................................................... 64 Samuel Cushman ...................................................................................................................... 64 Charles W. Cutter...................................................................................................................... 64 John L. Hayes............................................................................................................................ 66 Albert R. Hatch ......................................................................................................................... 66 Charles H. Bartlett .................................................................................................................... 67 Benjamin F. Clark ..................................................................................................................... 68 Fremont E. Shurtleff ................................................................................................................. 68 Burns P. Hodgman .................................................................................................................... 68 William H. Barry, Sr ................................................................................................................. 69 Charles M. Sawyer .................................................................................................................... 69 Elizabeth M. Hoyt ..................................................................................................................... 70 William H. Barry, Jr.................................................................................................................. 70 Kathleen Northrup .................................................................................................................... 71 3 James R. Starr ........................................................................................................................... 71 Daniel J. Lynch ......................................................................................................................... 71 THE CIRCUIT COURTS OF APPEAL ....................................................................................... 73 First Circuit Court of Appeals Judges ....................................................................................... 76 THE BANKRUPTCY COURT .................................................................................................... 78 Joseph Betley ...........................................................................................................................