Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....ROSENBERRY, MARVIN B. February 12, 1868 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/wi/wifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Tina Vickery tsvickery@adelphia.net March 11, 2007, 2:46 pm Author: The State Printing Board, Compiled and Published. MEMBERS OF SUPREME COURT MARVIN B. ROSENBERRY was appointed associate Justice of the Supreme Court February 12, 1916, to succeed the late Justice John Barnes, resigned. Two years later, in April 1918, he was elected for the residue of the term by the largest majority ever given a sitting justice and one year later, April, 1919, was re-elected for the regular term ending Jan. 1930, by a still larger majority. He was born Feb. 12, 1868, at River Styx, Medina county, Ohio, but his parents moved to Fulton, Kalamazoo county, Michigan, eight months later, and he was raised on the farm, attending the common schools until he was 16. He attended the Michigan State Normal at Ypsilantl for three years, teaching in the meantime to defray his expenses. Later he became a student of law in the office of Silverthorn, Hurley, Ryan & Jones, in Wausau, where he remained for a year and one-half and then entered the law department, of the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, where he was graduated in 1893 and returning to Wausau began to practice. On January 1, 1895, he became a member of the law firm of Bump, Kreutzer & Rosenberry, which six years later became Kreutzer, Bird & Rosenberry. He was united in marriage, Sept. 2, 1897, to. Miss Kate Landfair, at Leslie, Mich., who died Jan. 26, 1917, leaving two children, Katherine and Samuel. On June 24, 1918, Justice Rosenberry was married to Mrs. Lois Mathews, of Madison, dean of women of the University of Wisconsin. --- Additional Comments: The Wisconsin Blue Book. The State Printing Board, 1923. 598 - 640. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/wi/history/bluebook/1923/bios/rosenber8nbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/wifiles/ File size: 2.2 Kb