Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....Pinney, Silas U. 
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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

JUSTICES OF THE SUPREME COURT.
SILAS U. PINNEY was born in Rockdale, Crawford county, Penn., March 3, 1833. In 
1846 his father moved with his family to Dane county, Wisconsin, settling in 
what is now the town of Windsor. The country was then new and sparsely 
settled.  He attended the common schools and received the benefit of some 
private instruction. At the age of seventeen years he taught district school, 
and while working on a farm he began reading text-books of law. In 1853 he 
entered the law office of Vilas & Remington, in Madison, as a student. In 
February, 1854, he was admitted to the bar, and was actively engaged in the 
practice until his entry upon judicial labors in 1892. In 1868 he was attorney 
for the city of Madison; in 1865 member of the city council; in 1869 he was the 
democratic candidate for attorney general; in 1874 he was mayor of Madison; re-
elected mayor in 1875 without opposition, and was elected member of the 
assembly the same year. He prepared the 16th volume of Wisconsin Reports in 
1865; in 1870 he was appointed special reporter of the supreme court to report 
for publication the decisions of the territorial supreme court. He was elected 
justice of the supreme court in April, 1891, and entered upon his duties 
January 5, 1892; for several years, while in practice, he was lecturer in the 
College of Law of the University of Wisconsin.


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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