John Norton Pomeroy

John Norton Pomeroy
Personal details
Born(1828-04-12)April 12, 1828
Rochester, New York, U.S.
DiedFebruary 15, 1885(1885-02-15) (aged 56)
San Francisco, California, U.S.
Spouse
Ann Rebecca Carter
(m. 1855)
EducationHamilton College (BA)

John Norton Pomeroy (April 12, 1828 – February 15, 1885) was an American lawyer, writer, and law professor. “Perhaps the most important text book writer of the last third of the nineteenth century,” Pomeroy is one of the foremost contributors to American jurisprudence on topics ranging from equity to municipal law. [1]

  1. ^ Phillip Shaw Paludan, Law And Equal Rights: The Civil War Encounter—A Study Of Legal Minds In The Civil War Era 227 (Sept. 1968) (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Illinois).