Field, Roswell Martin

Life Span
to
    Full name
    Roswell Martin Field
    Place of Birth
    Birth Date Certainty
    Exact
    Death Date Certainty
    Exact
    Gender
    Male
    Race
    White
    Origins
    Free State
    No. of Spouses
    1
    Family
    Martin Field (father), Esther Smith Kellogg (mother), Frances Reed (wife), Eugene Field (son)
    Education
    Other
    Other Education
    Middlebury College, VT
    Occupation
    Politician
    Attorney or Judge
    Relation to Slavery
    White non-slaveholder
    Government
    State legislature
    Local government

    Roswell Martin Field (Wiley, 1917)

    Reference
    ROSWELL MARTIN FIELD, son of Martin and Esther Smith (Kellogg) Field. Born in Newfane, Vt., Feb. 22, 1807. Prepared for College with Rev. Luke Whitcomb, Townshend, Vt. Studied law with Daniel Kellogg, Rockingham. Admitted to the bar, 1825. Lawyer, Windham County, Vt., 1825-1839. State's Attorney, Windham County, 1831 1832, and 1833- 1836. Represented Newfane in the Legislature, 1835 and 1836. Settled in St. Louis, 1839. Married Frances Reed, May 30, 1848. Children: Eugene ; Roswell Martin. A. B. Died in St. Louis, Mo., July 12, 1869.
    Edgar J. Wiley, Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Middlebury College… (Middlebury, VT: Middlebury College, 1917), 63.

    Roswell Martin Field (Lawson, 1914)

    Reference
    FIELD, Roswell Martin (1807-1852). Born Newfane, Vt. Graduated Middlebury College. Studied law in his native state and practised [practiced] there from 1825 for fourteen years and was a member of the legislature and State's Attorney. Removed to St. Louis in 1839. Had an exceptional matrimonial experience in 1832 which is reported in 13 Vt. 460. Was counsel in the Dred Scott case. Was father of Eugene Field, the poet.
    John D. Lawson, ed., American State Trials (St. Louis: F. H. Thomas Law Book Co., 1914), 2: 207.
    Chicago Style Entry Link
    Kaufman, Kenneth C. "Dred Scott's Advocate: A Biography of Roswell M. Field." Journal of Southern History 64, no. 1 (1998): 133-134. view record
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