Bartlett Tripp Biography


	This biography appears on page 917 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. I (1904) and was scanned, 
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	BARTLETT TRIPP, born in Harmony, Maine, July 15, 1842, is of 
Revolutionary stock. Mr. Tripp is a graduate of Waterbury College, and 
of the Albany Law School, where he was a classmate of William 
McKinley's. He has always taken a deep interest in education, was a 
teacher in his younger days; was an incorporator of the South Dakota 
University, and has from the foundation been a trustee of Yankton 
College. He was a member of the commissions that revised the laws in 
1877 and again in 1903. He was chairman of the constitutional 
convention of 1873 and was chief justice of Dakota during Cleveland's 
first administration. During the second Cleveland administration he was 
United States minister to the court of Austria Hungary and in 1899 
served by appointment of President McKinley as a member of the 
international high joint commission to settle the Samoan difficulties. 
Mrs. Tripp is a sister of the late Senator Cushman K. Davis, of 
Minnesota. Mr. Tripp's home is at Yankton.