Harold Eugene Judge Biography


	This biography appears on page 88 in "History of Dakota 
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				HAROLD EUGENE JUDGE.  

	Harold Eugene Judge, a prominent and prosperous attorney of Sioux 
Falls, has here practiced his profession for the past two decades and 
since 1897 has been a member of the law firm of Aikens & Judge. His 
birth occurred in Floyd, Iowa, on the 7th of February, 1873, his 
parents being Patrick Henry and Della Cemira (Sutton) Judge. The 
father, a native of County Mayo, Ireland, emigrated to the United 
States with his parents.  

	Harold E. Judge acquired his education in the public schools and 
an academy at fort Dodge, Iowa, and subsequently entered the State 
University of Iowa at Iowa City, completing the course in the law 
department with the class of 1894. He was admitted to the bar in the 
same year and located for practice in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. In 
1895 he became interested in the newly organized firm of Aikens, Bailey 
& Voorhees, though his name was not used. Two years later Messrs. 
Aikens and Judge withdrew and formed a partnership which has been 
maintained to the present time. An extensive and lucrative clientage 
has been accorded them. Mr. Judge is known for the wide research and 
provident care with which he prepares his cases. In no instance has his 
reading ever been confined to the limitations of the question at issue; 
it has gone beyond and compassed every contingency and provided not 
alone for the expected, but for the unexpected, which happens in the 
courts quite as frequently as out of them. His logical grasp of facts 
and of principles of the law applicable to them has been another potent 
element in his success, and a remarkable clearness of expression, an 
adequate and precise diction, which enables him to make others 
understand not only the salient points of his argument, but his every 
fine gradation of meaning, may be accounted one of his most conspicuous 
gifts and accomplishments.