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Field, Stephen Johnson

lawyer, legislator, jurist, was born Nov. 4, 1816, in Haddam, Conn. He located in Marysville, Cal., in 1850, and was elected first alcalde of that city.

He was elected to the second legislature, and was member of the judiciary committee and framed the laws creating the judicial system of that state.

From 1851 to 1857 he practiced his profession, and was then a elected a judge of the supreme court for six years, from Jan. 1, 1858. A vacancy occurring on the bench, he was appointed judge to fill it on the 13th of October, 1857; became chief justice in 1859, and in 1863 was appointed to his present position.