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Edgar Bronson Tolman (1859–1947) was a prominent
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Biography

Edgar Bronson Tolman was born in
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on September 5, 1859, the son of a
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, the Rev. Cyrus F. Tolman and his wife Mary (Bronson) Tolman.''The Book of Chicagoans'', ed. Albert Nelson Marquis (Chicago, 1911), p. 674
/ref> His family returned to the
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in 1864. He was educated at the
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, receiving a
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in 1880 and a
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in 1882. He concurrently attended Union College of Law (which is today
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) while working on his master's, receiving a
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degree in 1882. While in grad school / law school, he also studied law with
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. He then joined Doolittle's
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, with the firm becoming Doolittle, McKay & Tolman in 1889 (and later becoming Doolittle, Palmer & Tolman). He served during the
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(1898), seeing action at the Battle of Santiago de Cuba. He held the rank of
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, and was thereafter commonly known as "Major Tolman" for the rest of his life. From 1901 to 1902, he was attorney for Chicago's Board of Local Improvement. He was then corporation counsel for the City of Chicago from June 12, 1903 until August 1, 1905. After leaving government service, he was the senior member of his own law firm, Tolman, Redfield & Sexon. He served as president of the Illinois State Bar Association for 1917-18.List of ISBA presidents
/ref> He became
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of the '' American Bar Association Journal'' in February 1921."A.B.A.J.: The First Fifty Years", ''ABA Journal'', Jan. 1965, p. 56
/ref> He became editor-in-chief emeritus in 1946 and remained on the ''Journals masthead until December 1947. Tolman married twice, to Nellie May Brown and Blanch Stevens. He died at the age of 88 on November 20, 1947, in Chicago, where he is interred at the Oak Woods Cemetery.


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