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Gift to BYU library by William Reece Co., New Haven CT. Apparently part of the Reeder Collection.
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Permission to publish material from Judge Jacob S. Boreman, Annotated Personal Copy of the "Utah Practice Act" must be obtained from the Supervisor of Reference Services and/or the Special Collections Board of Curators.
Jacob Smith Boreman was born on August 4, 1831 in Middleborn, Virginia. His father was a successful merchant and three of his seven children went on to become successful attorneys. Boreman was educated at a private academy, at Washington and Jefferson College and at the University of Virginia law school. In 1873, he was appointed by President Ulysses S. Grant to the Second District Court of Territorial Utah taking him and his family to Beaver, Utah. He resigned to practice law in Salt Lake City and later in Ogden. Among others, he presided over the John D. Lee trials and the Ann Eliza Webb-Brigham Young divorce case. He was a non-Mormon and was active in the Methodist church. He died on October 7, 1913 in Ogden, Utah.
For more information see Leonard J. Arrington, "Crusade Against
Theocracy: the Reminiscences of Judge Jacob Smith Boreman of Utah, 1872-1877",
The collection contains Judge Boreman's personal copy of the 1870