Mohave-Cochise-Maricopa County AZ Archives Biographies.....Street, Webster 1846 - living in 1896
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Author: McFarland & Poole

p. 611

  JUDGE WEBSTER STREET. This capable lawyer and honored citizen was born in
Salem, Ohio, June 8, 1846, and in that city received his early education. Later
he entered Antioch College, took a classical course, and graduated from that
institution. He then read law under Thomas Kennet and was admitted to the bar at
St. Clairsville, Ohio, in September, 1870. From there he went to Leetonia, Ohio,
practiced there two years and then moved to Pittsburg, Pennsylvania where he was
engaged in his legal duties until in October, 1877, when he moved to Arizona. He
first began at Signal, a live mining camp, but the mine failing he went to
Tucson where he remained until September. During the Tombstone excitement he
went to that place and remained there until January, 1887. From 1885 to 1886 he
was judge of the County Court with concurrent jurisdiction of the district
courts to relieve the crowded condition of the district court dockets. At the
expiration of his time of service, or in 1886, he came to Phoenix and for some
time was with Goodrich Bros. After the death of Briggs Goodrich he was with Ben.
Goodrich, now of Los Angeles, California, until 1890. For two years after this
Judge Street was alone in the practice but later he entered into partnership
with Frank Cox, of Phoenix, with whom he remained from October, 1891, till
August, 1894. At the last mentioned date the firm of Frazier & Street was
formed. Judge Street was married May 15, 1869 to Miss Mary E. Gilmore who was
born in Yellow Springs, Ohio. They have two children, Lawrence B., with the "Los
Angeles Times," and Julia Gilmore. In his social relations the Judge is a member
of the A. F. & A. M, the I. O. 6. F., the K. of P. and the A. O. U. W.


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A Historical and Biographical Record of the Territory of Arizona
Published by
McFarland & Poole, Chicago, 1896



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