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Field, Stephen Johnson 1816-1899
Jurist; born in Haddam, Conn., Nov. 4, 1816; brother of Cyrus West and David Dudley Field; graduated at Williams College, in 1837; studied law and was admitted to the
Stephen Johnson field. bar in 1841.
He went to San Francisco in 1849 and opened a law office, but got no clients.
In 1850 he settled in Yubaville (afterwards Marysville), which in January of that year had been founded at Nye's Ranch.
He was soon made justice of the peace, and for a time was the entire government.
In the autumn of 1850 he was elected a member of the first legislature under the State constitution.
As a member of the judiciary committee he drew up a code for the government of the State courts, and prepared civil, criminal, and mining laws, which were later generally adopted in the new Western States.
In 1857 he was elected a justice of the Supreme Court of California, for the term of six years, but before his term began a vacancy occurred in the court and he was