Higgins, Beckwith & Strother

City: Chicago

County: Cook

State: Illinois

Higgins, Beckwith & Strother was a short-lived Chicago legal partnership comprised of attorneys Van H. Higgins, Corydon Beckwith, and Bolton F. Strother. Higgins and Strother were partners in Galena in 1853, when they moved their office to Chicago. The pair joined with Beckwith in January 1855, but the firm of Higgins, Beckwith & Strother dissolved within a few years.

Galena Daily Jeffersonian (IL), 16 September 1853, 2:3; The Chicago Times (IL), 16 January 1855, 2:5; John Livingston, Livingston’s Law Register (New York: Davies and Roberts, 1856), 110; Chicago Daily Tribune (IL), 19 June 1862, 4:1; John Livingston, Livingston’s United States Law Register (New York: John A. Gray, 1859), 194, 196; The Daily Inter Ocean (Chicago, IL), 18 April 1893, 8:1.