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Parsons, George M

lawyer, legislator, jurist, was born Jan. 15, 1850, in Cambridge City, Ind. While attending high school in Hamilton, Ohio, he enlisted as a private soldier in the eighty-ninth regiment Ohio volunteer infantry, being but fifteen years of age. At the close of the war he entered a commercial college; took up the study of law; and has attained success as one of the leading lawyers of Idaho at Boise City. He was a member of the seventh and tenth sessions of the Idaho territorial legislature; in 1883-84 was probate judge of Alturas county; and for two terms during 1893- 96 was attorney-general of Idaho.

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