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Church, Louis Kossuth

lawyer, jurist, governor, was born Dec. 11, 1846, in Brooklyn, N. Y. He was the son of Judge Rodney C. Church, a noted jurist of Brooklyn, who died in 1871. He finished his education in the Columbia Law college, and became a noted lawyer in New York city. He served in the state legislature during 1882-85; was a Cleveland reformer, and with Theodore Roosevelt was active in bringing about municipal reforms. In 1885 his name was mentioned for the office of secretary of state, and also for congress, but he accepted from President Cleveland an appointment as associate judge of the supreme court in the fifth judicial district of Dakota territory. He filled this position until December, 1886, when he was appointed territorial governor. In 1889 he resigned, and a year later entered the practice of law in Seattle, Wash., and in 1891 moved to Everett, where he died Nov. 25, 1897.