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Boreman, Jacob E

journalist, lawyer, jurist, was born Aug. 4, 1831, in Middletown, W. Va. He was elected city attorney of Kansas City, Mo., in 1861; assisted in raising troops for the war; and in 1862 was appointed a judge of common pleas, and elected to the same by the people. He was elected a member of the Kansas state legislature in 1869. He subsequently purchased an interest in the Kansas City Bulletin and became its editor. In 1873 he was appointed an associate justice of the United States court for the territory of Utah.

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