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WILLARD, John Dwight, jurist, born in Lancaster, New York, 4 November, 1799; died in Troy, New York, 16 October, 1864. After graduation at Dartmouth in 1819 he studied law, was admitted to the bar of New York about 1823, and began practice in Troy in 1826. He was editor of the Troy "Sentinel" for several years. He was judge of the court of common pleas and also of the New York circuit court, and served in the state senate. The degree of LL. D. was conferred on him by Dartmouth in 1860, and by La Grange university of Kentucky in 1862. He left $10,000 to Dartmouth.
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