Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....BRYANT, EDWIN EUSTACE 
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Author: Published Under the Direction of Halford Erickson, Commissioner of Labor and Industrial Statistics, 1903.

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, in 1858. 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 aujutant under Colonel, now
General Thomas H. Ruger. In July, 1S04, 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 180S he was appointed adjutant-general of the
state and private secretary to Governor . Fairehild; in 1872,
he re-entered the practice of law, in partnership with W. F.
Vilas. In 1876, he again was adjutant-general under Governors
Lud-ington and Smith, 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 statutes; was appointed
with W. F. Vilas in 1872 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 Postoflice 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 1809, associated with John C.
Spooner, he published an edition of Town Laws, with forms and
instruction for town officers. While connected with the
postoffice department he edited the Postal Guide, and compiled
a volume of postal laws and regulations and a manual of
instructions to postoffice inspectors; the author of several
works on legal subjects: The Wisconsin Justice, a manual for
justices of the peace (1884), Code Pleadings (1894),
Elementary Law (1895), Code Practice (1898), Annotated
Constitution of the United States (1901), and several books
for use of students. His military experiences are recorded in
the History of the Third Hegiment 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. He has been
president of the Commissioners of Fisheries since 1893, and is
now President of the Geological and Natural History Survey
Commission.

Additional Comments:
The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin. Compiled and
Published Under the Direction of Halford Erickson,
Commissioner of Labor and Industrial Statistics, 1903. 1069
- 1117.

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