William Herring (politician)

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William Herring (born January 31, 1833 in New Brunswick , New Jersey , † July 10, 1912 in Tucson , Arizona ) was an American teacher, school principal, lawyer , mining operator and politician . He weighed about 250  pounds and was about 6  feet tall.

Career

William Herring was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey. The family then moved to New York City early in his teens , where he attended public schools and the City Normal School for Teachers . He began teaching in New York City public schools when he was 16. He rose quickly in his profession. In this context, the management of evening schools in New York City should be mentioned. At age 23, he was named principal of New York City's largest night school by the Education Committee. Over 1,000 students attended this school and Herring had a corps of 18 assistant teachers. Under his direction, technical drawing was introduced to evening schools in New York City. One of his evening school graduates was Adam S. Cameron , the noted inventor of the Cameron steam pump.

In the following years, Herring turned to law . He studied self-taught law but also visited the Columbia Law School , where he received his Bachelor of Laws made. He then successfully passed his bar exam and was admitted to the bar in New York . In the following years he ran his law practice with great passion, so that he received a large number of clients.

Herring was persuaded to accept his nomination for a seat in the New York State Assembly in 1873 . Despite the fact that he was a Republican , he ran for the consistently Democratic first constituency of Westchester County . In the end he won with a majority of only 654 votes. During his one-year tenure in the New York State Legislature , he was instrumental in the adoption of the " act to annex the lower portion of Westchester County to New York City ", which was the first step towards " Greater New York ". He was also responsible for the passing of the bill, which set May 30th as " Decoration Day ". New York was the first state to do this. The bill met fierce opposition, but Herring was tireless in its commitment. Because of his speech at the end of the debate, he was even nicknamed “ the orator of the house. "

After the lower portion of Westchester County was annexed to New York City, Herring was appointed assistant district attorney for New York City - a post he held for six years. During that time he was appointed to the Education Committee and was named trustee of the State Asylum for the Insane in Middletown.

Herring moved to the Arizona Territory in the spring of 1880 . His intention was to develop the Neptune Mine , which was located southeast of the small Copper Queen Mine in the Mule Mountains . He was known locally as Colonel Herring. During these years every man with the honorary title "Colonel" was addressed who had brought it to prosperity and property. It had nothing to do with a military rank. The mining camp in the Mule Mountains did not yet have a name. It was not until 1880 that its residents gave it the official name Bisbee ( Cochise County ) after the lawyer DeWitt Bisbee from San Francisco ( California ), an employee of the company that secured the financing of the Copper Queen Mine. The ore in the Neptune Mine was abundant, but the Copper Queen Mine controlled the only source of water in the Mule Mountains with sufficient volume for copper refining . As a result, Herring had a 15-  mile country road built west to the San Pedro River . He also acquired 600  acres of land from the San Rafael Land Grant . Herring had a smelter built on the east bank of the river, while he built a town for the ironworkers on the west bank . He named it Hereford after his friend Benjamin J. Hereford, a Tucson attorney who later served in the upper house of the Arizona Territorial Legislature . In the following years Herring had a control center for the Neptune Mine and an artistically furnished house built for his family, called The Castle, near the Bisbee mining camp in the Mule Mountains. After seven months, his mining inspector reported that the copper ore did not go down into the formation as it did with Bisbee. It was August Raht, who was brought here from Freiberg by the company's directors because of his skills and knowledge of mining. The mine was closed and all of Neptune's holdings in the Mule Mountains were sold at a sheriff auction in 1882. The smelter on the San Pedro River burned down and the town of Hereford was abandoned. The last residents left the town between 1882 and 1892 when William Greene established a cattle ranch there. Greene later went on to become a multimillionaire and gained notoriety in the Southwest and beyond.

After the mining project failed, he decided to practice as a lawyer in Tombstone, Cochise County. In this context he acquired a lucrative legal practice there. He later moved to Tucson.

Herring was appointed Attorney General of the Arizona Territory in 1891 - a post he held until 1893.

family

William Herring married Mary Emeline Inslee (1834-1903) around 1857. The marriage resulted in at least four children: Sarah Herring Sorin (1861–1914), Howard Ford Herring (1864–1891), Bertha Herring (1868–1925) and Henrietta Herring (1870–1963). His daughter Sarah studied law with him in his legal practice and was admitted to both the district courts and the Supreme Court of the Territory. In the following years she also attended the New York University School of Law , where she graduated. She became the first Arizona woman to try cases in the United States Supreme Court .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Opinions of the Attorney General , State of Arizona, Department of Law, 1956.
  2. ^ Opinions and Report of the Attorney General , Department of Law, 1971.
  3. ^ Robert W. Larson: New Mexico's Quest for Statehood, 1846-1912 . UNM Press, 2013, ISBN 978-0-8263-2947-9 , p. 222.
  4. ^ Mary Emeline Inslee Herring in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved April 18, 2016.
  5. ^ Sarah Inslee Herring Sorin in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved April 18, 2016.
  6. ^ Howard Ford Herring in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved April 18, 2016.
  7. ^ Bertha Herring in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved April 18, 2016.
  8. ^ Henrietta Herring Franklin in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved April 18, 2016.
  9. ↑ Jan Cleere: Arizona's first female attorney argued before the Supreme Court . In: Arizona Daily Star. 5th July 2014.
  10. ↑ Sarah Herring Sorin. ( July 8, 2010 memento on the Internet Archive ) Women's Plaza of Honor, The University of Arizona
personal data
SURNAME Herring, William
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American teacher, school principal, lawyer, mining operator, and politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 31, 1833
PLACE OF BIRTH New Brunswick , New Jersey
DATE OF DEATH July 10, 1912
Place of death Tucson , Arizona