Chester Willard Barrows (July 4, 1872 – February 19, 1931) was a justice of the

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from 1925 until his death in 1931. Born in

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, to William G. and Lydia S. (Willard) Barrows, he attended the public schools of Providence, and graduated from

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in 1895, and from Harvard Law School 1898.E.C. Bowler,
An Album of the Attorneys of Rhode Island
' (1904), p. 41. Gaining admission to the bar in Providence the same year, he entered the practice of law in that city. He served at times as a member of the State Board of Bar Examiners, an instructor in Law at Brown University, and a United States

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. On January 21, 1925, Barrows was appointed by the state legislature to a seat on the state supreme court vacated by the resignation of Justice Walter B. Vincent."General Assembly", ''Newport Mercury'' (January 24, 1925), p. 4. Barrows married Mary E. Crossley, with whom he had a daughter. He was an independent Republican.

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Justices of the Rhode Island Supreme Court 1872 births 1931 deaths Brown University alumni People from Woonsocket, Rhode Island Harvard Law School alumni {{RhodeIsland-state-judge-stub