Milton H. Myrick Explained

Milton Hills Myrick
Office:Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court
Termstart:January 5, 1880
Termend:January 3, 1887
Appointer:Direct election
Successor:Thomas B. McFarland
Birth Date:28 May 1826
Birth Place:Oneida County, New York, U.S.
Death Place:Saratoga, California, U.S.
Spouse:
Lucy Myrick

Milton Hills Myrick (May 28, 1826 – September 18, 1907) was an associate justice of the Supreme Court of California from January 5, 1880 to January 3, 1887.

Biography

Born on a farm near Paris Hill, in Oneida County, New York, Myrick's father was Rev. Luther Myrick of New England, a descendant of Ensign William Myrick, who had settled in Eastham, Massachusetts, on Cape Cod, in 1646, and served six years under Miles Standish.[1] Myrick moved with his family as his father assumed various ministries.[2] As a boy, Myrick learned to typset for a weekly paper published by his father in Oswego, and worked in a printing office while attended school at the Cazenovia Seminary in Cazenovia, New York.[3] [1] In May 1843, the family moved to a farm in Jackson County, Michigan, where Myrick's father died that September.[4] [1] [5]

From 1845 to 1847, Myrick continued to work in printing, first in Jackson County, then returning to New York, to Albany (where he worked on the Argus), Syracuse, New York City, and finally in the government printing office in Washington, D.C.[1] While employed in Washington, Myrick "saw John Quincy Adams as he lay dying on a cot in the speaker's room".[1] In 1848, Myrick returned to Michigan and read law in the law office of Frink & Blair.[1] During this time, he became the deputy county clerk of Jackson County, and of the Michigan Supreme Court, when it sat in that county.[6] In 1850, he was admitted to the bar, and the following summer he worked for governor William H. Seward, performing tasks related to a case being heard in Detroit.[1]

In 1854, Myrick traveled to California by the Nicaragua route, arriving in San Francisco in October with only five dollars in his possession. He worked as a printer for a year on the San Francisco Sun. In October 1855, he moved to Shasta, California and helped to establish the Shasta Republican. In May 1857, he moved to Red Bluff, California and resumed the practice of law in partnership with Warner Earll.[7] In 1863 to 1865, during the American Civil War, he was a Major in the Lassen Rangers, a state militia unit.[8] [9] In May 1866, he returned to San Francisco, this time as an attorney, and was appointed by Judge O.C. Pratt of the Twelfth Judicial District to act as a referee in a complicated partitions case.[1]

In 1871, he was elected to a four-year term on the county probate court as the nominee of the Tax Payer's Convention, taking office on January 1, 1872.[10] [11] [12] He was reelected as a Republican in 1875, his second term running from January 1, 1876, to December 31, 1879.[13] [14] [15]

In 1879, when adoption of a new constitution required elections for all seats on the Supreme Court, he was nominated as a Republican candidate and was elected as an associate justice.[16] [17] [18] The new justices drew lots to determine length of term with Myrick picking seven years, serving from January 5, 1880 to January 3, 1887.[19] [20]

After stepping down from the high court, Myrick served as president of the Saratoga Village Improvement Association,[21] and resumed the private practice of law with Frank P. Deering.[22] [23] In May 1888, Governor Waterman appointed Myrick as a judge of the Santa Clara County Superior Court.[24] In October 1897, he gave a speech at the Unitarian Club of San Francisco opposing Hawaiian annexation by the United States.[25] In January 1898, he was elected a trustee of the San Francisco Bar Association.[26] He remained in practice until his death in 1907.[27] [28] [29]

Civic activities

Myrick was a founding trustee of Mills College.[30] [31] [32] He was also a member of the Bohemian Club.[33]

Personal life

Myrick married three times. On October 24, 1850, Myrick married Mary Ludlow in Jackson, Michigan, and they had a son, George Fred Myrick. By 1870, he was remarried to Lucy Myrick and living in San Francisco. By 1880, he was a widower. On November 7, 1883, he married again to Emma Adelia Simpson in Virginia City, Nevada.[34] [35]

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Notes and References

  1. Shuck, Oscar Tully (1901), History of the Bench and Bar of California, p. 726-730. Retrieved August 20, 2017.
  2. Book: Strong. Douglas M.. Perfectionist Politics: Abolitionism and the Religious Tensions of American Democracy. 2001. Syracuse University Press. Syracuse, NY. 0815629249. 34. August 16, 2017.
  3. Book: Hammond. Luna M.. History of Madison County, State of New York. 1872. Truair, Smith. 243. August 16, 2017.
  4. News: We are called to mourn the passing of Luther Myrick. August 16, 2017. The Voice of Freedom. Library of Congress Historic Newspapers. October 5, 1843. 59.
  5. Book: Hotchkin. James Harvey. A History of the Purchase and Settlement of Western New York: And of the Rise, Progress and Present State of the Presbyterian Church in that Section. 1848. M.W. Dodd. 173. August 16, 2017. Criticism of Luther Myrick within the Presbyterian Church.
  6. Book: Thomas. James M.. Jackson City Directory and Business Advertiser for 1867 & 1868: With a History from the First Settlement of the City, and a General Portrait of Its Business at the Present Time. 1867. Carlton & Van Antwerp. 101. August 16, 2017. Village Recorder, Milton H. Myrick, 1852-1853.
  7. News: Candidates. August 16, 2017. Red Bluff Beacon. 54. California Digital Newspaper Collection. 13 June 1863. 3. The following named gentlemen have been spoken of for positions before the Republican Convention which meets to day. County Judge: W. Earll and M. H. Myrick..
  8. News: Camp Ellis. August 16, 2017. Red Bluff Independent. 26. California Digital Newspaper Collection. 3 November 1863. 2.
  9. News: Military Election. August 16, 2017. Red Bluff Independent. 79. California Digital Newspaper Collection. 4 May 1865. 2.
  10. News: The Tax-payer's Ticket. August 16, 2017. Daily Alta California. 7817. California Digital Newspaper Collection. 17 August 1871. 23. 1.
  11. News: Domestic News. August 16, 2017. Marysville Daily Appeal. California Digital Newspaper Collection. 20 October 1871. 3.
  12. Book: Johnson. J. Edward. History of the California Supreme Court: The Justices 1850-1900, vol 1. 1963. Bender Moss Co. San Francisco, CA. 140–142. August 14, 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20161227124913/http://library.courtinfo.ca.gov/included/docs/SCJC_Vol_1.pdf. December 27, 2016. dead.
  13. News: New San Francisco Judicial Convention. August 16, 2017. Sacramento Daily Union. 201. California Digital Newspaper Collection. 6 October 1875. 1. 1. Probate Judge, M. H. Myrick, present incumbent..
  14. News: San Francisco Elections. August 16, 2017. The New York Herald. Library of Congress Historic Newspapers. October 22, 1875. 7.
  15. Book: Myrick. Milton Hills. Rearden. T. H.. Reports of cases in the Probate Court of the city and county of San Francisco : from January 1, 1872, to December 31, 1879. 1944. Dennis & Co.. Buffalo, NY. 1347589759. 26701090. 2015. August 16, 2017.
  16. News: Supreme Court Nominations. August 16, 2017. Daily Los Angeles Herald. Library of Congress Historic Newspapers. June 20, 1879. 2.
  17. News: Official Returns of the Election. July 21, 2017. Sacramento Daily Union. 191. California Digital Newspaper Collection. 20 October 1879. 8. 2.
  18. News: The State Government, Associate Justices. July 25, 2017. Sacramento daily record-union. Library of Congress Historic Newspapers. January 10, 1880. 3.
  19. News: The New State Supreme Court. August 16, 2017. Sacramento Daily Record-Union. Library of Congress Historic Newspapers. January 6, 1880. 1.
  20. News: The Supreme Court. August 16, 2017. The San Francisco Call. Library of Congress Historic Newspapers. June 22, 1895. 5.
  21. Saratoga Chamber of Commerce, History of the Saratoga Chamber of Commerce .
  22. News: Resumed Practice. August 16, 2017. Daily Alta California. 13699. California Digital Newspaper Collection. 4 March 1887. 42. 1.
  23. News: Lawyers, Myrick and Deering. August 16, 2017. Daily Alta California. 7. California Digital Newspaper Collection. 7 July 1889. 81. 11.
  24. News: Coast Cullings. August 16, 2017. Los Angeles Daily Herald. Library of Congress Historic Newspaper. May 19, 1888. 5.
  25. News: Shall We Wrong the Hawaiians?. August 16, 2017. The San Francisco Call. Library of Congress Historic Newspaper. October 10, 1897. 8.
  26. News: Bar Association Officers. August 16, 2017. The San Francisco Call. Library of Congress Historic Newspapers. January 15, 1898. 5.
  27. News: Supreme Court, Department One. August 17, 2017. The Record-Union. Library of Congress Historic Newspapers. November 17, 1896. 5.
  28. White, James Terry (1950). The National cyclopaedia of American biography. p. 379, entry for Frank Prentiss Deering. Retrieved August 17, 2017.
  29. News: Judge M. H. Myrick is Dead at Campbell. August 16, 2017. San Francisco Call. 111. California Digital Newspaper Collection. 19 September 1907. 102. 4.
  30. News: Mills Seminary Library. August 16, 2017. Daily Alta California. 12594. California Digital Newspaper Collection. 6 October 1884. 37. 2.
  31. News: Articles of Incorporation. August 16, 2017. Daily Alta California. 12992. California Digital Newspaper Collection. 9 October 1885. 39. 8.
  32. News: The Eastern Shore, Oakland. August 16, 2017. Daily Alta California. 14152. California Digital Newspaper Collection. 30 May 1888. 42. 8.
  33. News: Bohemian Club Election. August 16, 2017. Daily Alta California. 13738. California Digital Newspaper Collection. 12 April 1887. 42. 2.
  34. News: Death Calls Mrs. Myrick. August 16, 2017. San Francisco Call. 10. California Digital Newspaper Collection. 10 June 1908. 104. 15.
  35. News: Social and Personal. August 17, 2017. Sacramento Daily Union. 72. California Digital Newspaper Collection. 14 November 1883. 18. 5. Judge Myrick, of the Supreme Court, is accompanied to the city by Mrs. Myrick..

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