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GILFILLAN, James, jurist, born at Bannock-burn, Scotland, 9 March, 1829. He was brought to the United States in infancy, and spent his youth at New Hartford and Utica, Oneida County, New York He attended only the country district schools, but studied the classics and higher mathematics privately. After a law course at the state and national law-school at Balston Spa, New York, he was admitted to the bar at Albany in December, 1850, and went immediately to Buffalo, New York, and practiced till the spring of 1857. He then went to St. Paul, Minnesota, where he has since resided. He entered the military service in August, 1862, as 2d lieutenant of the 7th Minnesota regiment, was commissioned captain in September, and served in l862-'a against the Sioux Indians. Ilk then served in the south till the end of the civil war, and in October, 1864, was commissioned colonel of the llth Minnesota. After the war he continued in the practice of law at St. Paul till July, 1869, when he was appointed chief justice of the state Supreme Court, to fill a vacancy, and served till January, 1870. lit was again appointed to fill a vacancy in the same office in 1875, elected in the autumn of that year, and re-elected in 1882.
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