Charles Langdon Williams, of Rutland, Vt., after graduating, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in the spring of 1842, at the early age of twenty-one. He remained in Rutland till the autumn of 1844, when he removed to Brandon, where he practised law four years, but returned to Rutland, and resided there till his death. In 1850 he was appointed to compile the public laws of the State of Vermont. He completed this undertaking in 1851, and the result of his labor - The Compiled Statutes of Vermont — has been the only authorized version of the laws there in force. In 1855, 1856, and 1857 he was elected each year, by the State legislature, the reporter of the decisions of the Supreme Court, and the result of those labors were the twenty-seventh, twenty-eighth, and twenty-ninth volumes of the Vermont Reports. Mr. Williams married, April 25, 1855, Miss Louisa I. Bedell, of Brooklyn, L.I., who died March 4, 1858. He died at Rutland, Vt., February [sic] 10, 1861, aged forty years. (from Williams Biographical Annals by Rev. Calvin Durfee, pub. by Lee & Shepard, Boston and Lee, Shepard & Dillingham, New York, 1871)
1839 graduate of Williams College, Williamstown, Mass.
1839 graduate of Williams College, Williamstown, Mass.
Charles Langdon Williams, of Rutland, Vt., after graduating, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in the spring of 1842, at the early age of twenty-one. He remained in Rutland till the autumn of 1844, when he removed to Brandon, where he practised law four years, but returned to Rutland, and resided there till his death. In 1850 he was appointed to compile the public laws of the State of Vermont. He completed this undertaking in 1851, and the result of his labor - The Compiled Statutes of Vermont — has been the only authorized version of the laws there in force. In 1855, 1856, and 1857 he was elected each year, by the State legislature, the reporter of the decisions of the Supreme Court, and the result of those labors were the twenty-seventh, twenty-eighth, and twenty-ninth volumes of the Vermont Reports. Mr. Williams married, April 25, 1855, Miss Louisa I. Bedell, of Brooklyn, L.I., who died March 4, 1858. He died at Rutland, Vt., February [sic] 10, 1861, aged forty years. (from Williams Biographical Annals by Rev. Calvin Durfee, pub. by Lee & Shepard, Boston and Lee, Shepard & Dillingham, New York, 1871)
1839 graduate of Williams College, Williamstown, Mass.
1839 graduate of Williams College, Williamstown, Mass.
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