Biographical Sketches:  EDWIN EUSTACE BRYANT


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The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin Compiled and Published under
the direction of Wm. H. Froehlich, Secretary of State 1901.

page 774-775

UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT HEADS EDWIN EUSTACE BRYANT, Dean of the College
of Law, born Jan. 10, 1835, in Milton, Chittenden county, Vt.;
received an academic education in the New Hampton Institute; removed
to Wisconsin in 1857, admitted to the bar and began the practice of
law at Monroe. When the rebellion broke out he enlisted as a private
in Co. C, Third Wis. Infantry. He was promoted to sergeant-major
before leaving the state; served three years as lieutenant and
adjutant 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 Wis. Infantry, and served one year in Missouri. In
1868 he was appointed adjutant-general of the state and private
secretary to Governor Fairchild; in 1872, he re-entered the practice
of law, in partnership with W. F. Vilas. In 1876, he again was
adjutant-general under Governors Ludington and Smith, and continued in
office until 3-882; was a member of the legislature in 1878, and
served as chairman of the committee oil revision of the state
statutes; 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 Post office Department, and 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. 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 lie edited
the Postal Guide, and compiled a volume of postal laws and regulations
and a manual of Instructions to post office Inspectors; the author of
several works on legal subjects: The Wisconsin Justice, it manual for
justices of the peace (1884), Code Pleading (1894), Elementary Law
(1895), Code Practice (1898), and several books for use of students.
His military experiences are recorded in the History of the Third
Regiment Wisconsin Veteran Volunteers, written by him, published in
1891. In 1896, he wrote a history of the Supreme court of Wisconsin
for the Green Bag, a law magazine published in Boston. lie has been
president of the Commissioners of Fisheries since 1893, and is now
President of the Geological and Natural History Survey Commission.