Stephen Bosworth Pound

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Stephen Bosworth Pound (January 14, 1833 – May 14, 1911) was an American pioneer, lawyer, senator and judge in Nebraska.

Early life and education

Pound was born at

Quaker native of Yorkshire, who settled before 1672 at Piscataway, New Jersey.[1]

Pound was not inclined to follow in the family's farming endeavours, and his father, accommodating his son's interest in learning, sent him to an academy at Macedon, New York, then the private liberal arts Union College at Schenectady, from which he graduated as valedictorian.[2]

Career

Having been admitted to the

Nebraska State Senate.[4]

Personal life

In 1869, Pound married Laura, daughter of farmer

Quaker martyrs Lawrence and Cassandra Southwick. Laura Pound was a director of the Lincoln public library, and a prominent member of literary and arts associations and of the Daughters of the American Revolution in Nebraska, being elected state regent several times. They had three children, Roscoe Pound, Louise Pound, and Olivia Pound, a highschool Latin teacher.[6][7]

"Deliberate, reserved, and self-contained", Roscoe Pound considered his father "one of the most scrupulously truthful men".[8]

References

  1. ^ The National Cyclopædia of American Biography: Being the History of the United States as Illustrated in the Lives of the Founders, Builders, and Defenders of the Republic, and of the Men and Women who are Doing the Work and Moulding the Thought of the Present Time, Volume 29, ed. George Derby, James Terry White, 1941, p. 310
  2. ^ Louise Pound: The 19th Century Iconoclast who Forever Changed America's views about Women, Academics and Sports, Marie Krohn, American Legacy Historical Press, 2008, p. 6
  3. ^ Louise Pound: The 19th Century Iconoclast who Forever Changed America's views about Women, Academics and Sports, Marie Krohn, American Legacy Historical Press, 2008, pp. 7-8
  4. ^ Classic Writings in Law and Society, ed. A. Javier Trevino, Transaction Publishers, 2009, p. 82
  5. ^ Louise Pound: The 19th Century Iconoclast who Forever Changed America's views about Women, Academics and Sports, Marie Krohn, American Legacy Historical Press, 2008, p. 6
  6. ^ The Blue Book of Nebraska Women: A History of Contemporary Women, Winona Evans Reeves, 1916, pp. 118-119
  7. ^ "Nebraska". usgennet.org. Retrieved August 31, 2019.
  8. ^ Louise Pound: The 19th Century Iconoclast who Forever Changed America's views about Women, Academics and Sports, Marie Krohn, American Legacy Historical Press, 2008, p. 8

Additional sources

  • "Pound, Stephen Bosworth." The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. 29:310-311. 1941.

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