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Source: The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin, 1897
Author: Compiled and Published under under the direction of Henry Casson

HEADS OF INSTRUCTIONAL FORCE AT THE UNIVERSITY OE WISCONSIN.
EDWIN EUSTACE BRYANT, Dean of the College of Law, was born January 10, 1835, in 
Milton, Chittendon county, Vt. He received an academic education in the New 
Hampshire Institute, spending two years in the classical Department; removed to 
Wisconsin in 1857, was admitted to the bar and began the practice of law at 
Monroe. Was engaged in the practice of law at Monroe until the rebellion broke 
out, when he enlisted as a private in Company C, Third Wisconsin Infantry. He 
was promoted to sergeant-major before leaving the state; served three years, 
first as lieutenant, and in 1862 became adjutant of hi-s regiment under 
Colonel, now General Thomas H. Ruger. In July, 1864, he was appointed 
commissioner of enrollment for the third district of Wisconsin, and in 
February, 1865, was commissioned lieutenant-colonel of the Fiftieth Wisconsin 
Infantry, and served one year in Missouri. In 1868 he was appointed adjutant-
general of the state and private secretary to Governor Fairchild. At the 
expiration of Governor Fairchild’s administration in 1872, he re-entered the 
practice of law, in partnership with W. F. Vilas. In 1876, he again became 
adjutant-general under Governor Ludington, was reappointed by Governor Smith, 
in 1878, and continued in office until 1882; was a member of the legislature in 
1878, and served as chairman of the committee on revision of the state statues; 
was appointed with W. F. Vilas to revise and annotate eighteen volumes of the 
supreme court reports, and reported the thirty-seventh volume. In 1884 was 
appointed assistant attorney general of the Postoffice Department, which 
position he held four years. In 1889, General Bryant was elected Dean of the 
College of Law of the University of Wisconsin, to which he has since given his 
entire time and attention. He has been a fertile writer on subjects relating to 
his profession. In 1869, associated with John C. Spooner, he published an 
edition of Town Laws, with forms and instructions for town officers. While 
connected with the post office department he edited the Postal Guide, and 
compiled a volume of postal laws and regulations and a manual of instructions 
to post- office inspectors. He is the author of several works on legal 
subjects: The Wisconsin Justice, a manual for justices of the peace (1884), 
Code Pleading (1894), Elementary Law (1895), Code Forms for use in Wisconsin, 
besides various notes of lectures. His military experiences are recorded in the 
History of the Third Regiment Wisconsin Veteran Volunteers, written by him, 
published in 1891. He has been president of the Commissioners of Fisheries 
since 1893. During the past year he has written a history of the Supreme Court 
of Wisconsin, for the Green Bag, a law magazine published in Boston.


Additional Comments:
The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin Compiled and Published under
the direction of Henry Casson, Secretary of State 1897.

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