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The State Bar Association of Utah was organized in 1894 with sixty-two charter members. J. G. Sutherland was elected the first president. Four vice presidents were chosen from the first, second, third and fourth judicial districts, viz: S. R. Thurman, M. M. Warner, C. W. Bennett and James N. Kimball. Richard B. Shepard was elected the first secretary, and Elmer B. Jones, the first treasurer. The first executive council was composed of P. L. Williams, John A. Marshall, F. S. Richards, E. M. Allison and Grant H. Smith, and the first committee on grievances consisted of Thomas Marshall, C. S. Varian and J. H. MacMillan.

The constitution and by-laws then adopted provide for annual meetings, and such meetings were held until the United States entered the great world war in 1917. From that time to September 1, 1919, no meetings of the association were held. The meetings of the association have been devoted to discussion of various phases of legal practice and closed with a banquet. The association now has about three hundred members.

On September 1, 1919, the officers and committees were as follows: William D. Riter, president; J. D. Call, J. A. Howell, M. L. Ritchie, Jacob Coleman, Joshua Greenwood, Joseph H. Erickson and Albert H. Christensen, vice presidents from the seven judicial districts respectively; Harold P. Fabian, secretary; E. Conway Ashton, treasurer; Samuel W. Stewart, Frank K. Nebeker, Roy Thatcher, Oscar W. Carlson and Charles A. Boyd, executive council; Frederick L. Loofbourow, Richard W. Young and P. T. Farnsworth, Jr., committee on grievances.

Every county in the state is represented in the membership of the association, which has done much to bring about a fraternal relationship among the lawyers of Utah. While they meet as rivals in the court room in the trial of causes, their conduct of cases is usually free from "sharp" practices, and it is probably true that the bar of Utah is as free from shysters and pettifoggers as any state in the Union.

[Source: Utah since statehood: historical and biographical, Volume 1; Edited by Noble Warrum; Publ. 1919; Transcribed and submitted by Andrea Stawski Pack.]

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Organization of the Utah State Bar Association
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The State Bar Association of Utah was organized in 1894 with sixty-two charter members. J. G. Sutherland was elected the first president. Four vice presidents were chosen from the first, second, third and fourth judicial districts, viz: S. R. Thurman, M. M. Warner, C. W. Bennett and James N. Kimball. Richard B. Shepard was elected the first secretary, and Elmer B. Jones, the first treasurer. The first executive council was composed of P. L. Williams, John A. Marshall, F. S. Richards, E. M. Allison and Grant H. Smith, and the first committee on grievances consisted of Thomas Marshall, C. S. Varian and J. H. MacMillan. The constitution and by-laws then adopted provide for annual meetings, and such meetings were held until the United States entered the great world war in 1917. From that time to September 1, 1919, no meetings of the association were held. The meetings of the association have been devoted to discussion of various phases of legal practice and closed with a banquet. The association now has about three hundred members. On September 1, 1919, the officers and committees were as follows: William D. Riter, president; J. D. Call, J. A. Howell, M. L. Ritchie, Jacob Coleman, Joshua Greenwood, Joseph H. Erickson and Albert H. Christensen, vice presidents from the seven judicial districts respectively; Harold P. Fabian, secretary; E. Conway Ashton, treasurer; Samuel W. Stewart, Frank K. Nebeker, Roy Thatcher, Oscar W. Carlson and Charles A. Boyd, executive council; Frederick L. Loofbourow, Richard W. Young and P. T. Farnsworth, Jr., committee on grievances. Every county in the state is represented in the membership of the association, which has done much to bring about a fraternal relationship among the lawyers of Utah. While they meet as rivals in the court room in the trial of causes, their conduct of cases is usually free from "sharp" practices, and it is probably true that the bar of Utah is as free from shysters and pettifoggers as any state in the Union. [Source: Utah since statehood: historical and biographical, Volume 1; Edited by Noble Warrum; Publ. 1919; Transcribed and submitted by Andrea Stawski Pack.]



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