Levi Haile
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Levi Haile (died July 14, 1854) was a Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court from 1835 to 1854. Haile was born in Warren, Rhode Island . He returned there to practise law and represented the town in the General Assembly from 1824 to 1835 when he was elected as Associate Justice in 1835.
He graduated at Brown University in 1821. He continued serving as a supreme court judge until his death in 1854.[1]
As Justice of the Peace in 1932 he heard an extradition case for a high-profile murder.[2]
He was a leader of the Constitution Party and then a Whig.[3]
Alfred Bosworth studied law under him.[4]
Haile died of cholera, after an illness of 24 hours, in his home in Warren.[5]
In 1975 the state histocial preservation commission wrote about his house in an area report.[6] His family lands are now part of a land trust.[7]
References
- ^ Stephen O. Edwards, "The Supreme Court of Rhode Island", in Horace Williams Fuller, et al., eds., The Green Bag, Vol. 2. (1890), p. 534.
- ^ "HIST. 48 MURDER IN A MILL TOWN". www.swarthmore.edu.
- ^ Conley, Patrick T.; Jr, Robert G. Flanders (April 11, 2011). "The Rhode Island State Constitution". Oxford University Press – via Google Books.
- ^ Stephen O. Edwards, "The Supreme Court of Rhode Island", in Horace Williams Fuller, et al., eds., The Green Bag, Vol. 2. (1890), p. 536.
- ^ "The Cholera", The Charleston Mercury (July 20, 1854), p. 2.
- ^ http://www.preservation.ri.gov/pdfs_zips_downloads/survey_pdfs/warren.pdf
- ^ "Haile Farm Preserve History – Warren Land Conservation Trust, Inc".
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