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GRAND JURY DIVORCE REPORT

 

Salt Lake County, Utah 

Committee of the Grand Jury

Divorce Report

Notes on File in the Third District Court 

The original notes show that from Sept. 1, 1874 to Sept. 1, 1875, that 84 divorces were granted; from Sept. 1, 1875 to Sept. 1, 1876, 77 divorces were granted; from Sept. 1, 1876 to Sept. 1, 1877, 343 divorces were granted; within three years the Salt Lake County Probate Court had granted 504 divorces. 

These decrees were obtained chiefly through the following divorce shysters: 

Boyce, Isaac C.---(New York City)

Byrne, G. R.---(Jackson Co., Mich.)

Dana, Frank M.---(Fon du Lac, Wis.)

Davis, E. A.---(Cass Co., Ill.)

Dexter, A. J.---(Chicago, Ill.)

Flanders, J. W.---(St. Jo Co., Mich.)

Furlong, Jesse K.---(Kings Co., N. Y.)

Goodrich, A.---(Chicago, Ill.)

Jaques, W. J.---(New York)

Lawrence, James H.---(San Francisco)

McMillan, D. H.---(Erie Co., N. Y.)

Montgomerie, C. H. P.---(Chicago)

O’Brien, James W.---(Boston, Mass.)

Powers, Peter---(St. Louis, Mo.)

Robinson, M. S.---(Chicago)

Sappenfield, E. M.---(Vigo Co., Ind.)

Sewell, Charles---(Salem, Mass.)

Sims, G. R.---(Chicago)

Smith, Sam T.---(New York)

Stilley, W. R.---(Tuscumbia Co., Ala.)

Swim, D. K.---(San Francisco)

Wegener, F. O.---(San Francisco)

White, N. G.---(Lawrence, Mass.)

Williams, T. J.---(Page Co., Iowa)

Williams, W. R.---(Boston, Mass.) 

All of these individuals figure as notaries public in the documents on file in the Probate Court of Salt Lake county, and the fellow Montgomerie seems to have a divorce agency both in New York and Chicago. They have their lines all laid with a number of shysters in this city, who are in cahoots with the Probate Courts of the Territory and thus the infamous business is carried on—a perfect warfare upon the martial relations of the civilized world. 

(Salt Lake Tribune, Salt Lake, Utah; October 06, 1877)

Submitted by: Cathy Danielson 
 

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