Siblings: Charlotte Louise, John Howard, Susan W., Henry Sherman, Eleanor Margaret, Unknown Son
Spouse: Margaret Lowry
Marriage Date: 17 August 1892 in Covington, Kentucky
Children: Margaret L., Henry Samuel, William Leslie, Josephine Wakeman
With a B. A. (1886) and M. A. (1889) from Trinity College plus an LL. B. (1889) and M. L. (1890) ftom Uale, he started his legal career in Knoxville, Tennessee, returning two years later to begin a law practice in New Haven, Connecticut that was to span 55 years. His son William L. eventually joined him in the firm of Beers and Beers at 205 church Street there.
From 1892 to 1912 he was a part-time professor at Yale Law School. He was Compensation Commissioner for the Third Cngressional District from 1912 to 1923, Connecticut Commissioner on the National Commission for Uniform State Laws from 1916 to 1940, and he was named chairman of the New Haven (Connecticut) Compliance Board of the National Recovery Administration in 1933.
His particular areas of specialization were in the fields of legal procedures involving title to real estate and the law in relation to workmens compensation.
He was a frequent contributor to various legal journals, a consultant for legal encyclopedias and editor of several works of legal reference. He was active in the American and State Bar Associations and the American Law Institute.
With all of this, much is left unsaid of the honors, contributions and accomplishments of George Emerson Beers.
He and his wife made their first Connecticut home on Lake Place in New Haven, Connecticut, where they lived until 1902. They then moved to Fair Street in Guilford (Connecticut ??) from the then on.
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Siblings: Charlotte Louise, John Howard, Susan W., Henry Sherman, Eleanor Margaret, Unknown Son
Spouse: Margaret Lowry
Marriage Date: 17 August 1892 in Covington, Kentucky
Children: Margaret L., Henry Samuel, William Leslie, Josephine Wakeman
With a B. A. (1886) and M. A. (1889) from Trinity College plus an LL. B. (1889) and M. L. (1890) ftom Uale, he started his legal career in Knoxville, Tennessee, returning two years later to begin a law practice in New Haven, Connecticut that was to span 55 years. His son William L. eventually joined him in the firm of Beers and Beers at 205 church Street there.
From 1892 to 1912 he was a part-time professor at Yale Law School. He was Compensation Commissioner for the Third Cngressional District from 1912 to 1923, Connecticut Commissioner on the National Commission for Uniform State Laws from 1916 to 1940, and he was named chairman of the New Haven (Connecticut) Compliance Board of the National Recovery Administration in 1933.
His particular areas of specialization were in the fields of legal procedures involving title to real estate and the law in relation to workmens compensation.
He was a frequent contributor to various legal journals, a consultant for legal encyclopedias and editor of several works of legal reference. He was active in the American and State Bar Associations and the American Law Institute.
With all of this, much is left unsaid of the honors, contributions and accomplishments of George Emerson Beers.
He and his wife made their first Connecticut home on Lake Place in New Haven, Connecticut, where they lived until 1902. They then moved to Fair Street in Guilford (Connecticut ??) from the then on.
(Thank you Contributer 48251190)
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