Joel Doolittle was born about 1773 in Massachusetts, graduated at Yale in 1799, came to Middlebury in the fall of 1800 as the first tutor in Middlebury College. He was admitted to the bar in 1801 and was a successful lawyer till 1817 when he was elected a judge of the Supreme Court. He served six years continuously on the bench, and after a year of practice at the bar was again elected a judge in 1824 and served the following year.
Judge Doolittle was a councillor from 1815 to 1818, represented Middlebury in 1824 and was a member and president of the council of censors in 1834.
He died, March 9, 1841, at the age of sixty-eight. Mrs. Doolittle survived him and after his death went to Painesville, Ohio, where she lived with her children. (from Men of Vermont: An Illustrated Biographical History of Vermonters and Sons of Vermont; compiled by Jacob G. Ullery; pub. Transcript Publishing Co., Brattleboro, 1894)
Judge Doolittle was a councillor from 1815 to 1818, represented Middlebury in 1824 and was a member and president of the council of censors in 1834.
He died, March 9, 1841, at the age of sixty-eight. Mrs. Doolittle survived him and after his death went to Painesville, Ohio, where she lived with her children. (from Men of Vermont: An Illustrated Biographical History of Vermonters and Sons of Vermont; compiled by Jacob G. Ullery; pub. Transcript Publishing Co., Brattleboro, 1894)
Joel Doolittle was born about 1773 in Massachusetts, graduated at Yale in 1799, came to Middlebury in the fall of 1800 as the first tutor in Middlebury College. He was admitted to the bar in 1801 and was a successful lawyer till 1817 when he was elected a judge of the Supreme Court. He served six years continuously on the bench, and after a year of practice at the bar was again elected a judge in 1824 and served the following year.
Judge Doolittle was a councillor from 1815 to 1818, represented Middlebury in 1824 and was a member and president of the council of censors in 1834.
He died, March 9, 1841, at the age of sixty-eight. Mrs. Doolittle survived him and after his death went to Painesville, Ohio, where she lived with her children. (from Men of Vermont: An Illustrated Biographical History of Vermonters and Sons of Vermont; compiled by Jacob G. Ullery; pub. Transcript Publishing Co., Brattleboro, 1894)
Judge Doolittle was a councillor from 1815 to 1818, represented Middlebury in 1824 and was a member and president of the council of censors in 1834.
He died, March 9, 1841, at the age of sixty-eight. Mrs. Doolittle survived him and after his death went to Painesville, Ohio, where she lived with her children. (from Men of Vermont: An Illustrated Biographical History of Vermonters and Sons of Vermont; compiled by Jacob G. Ullery; pub. Transcript Publishing Co., Brattleboro, 1894)
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