1. John Ricord was involved in cases in Texas, Oregon, Hawaii, and California.
20 Facts About John Ricord
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John Ricord was born on September 5,1813, in Belleville, New Jersey.
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John Ricord's mother, Elizabeth Stryker, was an educator and writer.
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John Ricord's father, Jean Baptiste Ricord de Madianna, was a physician and naturalist who had escaped the French Revolution with his parents.
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The first John Ricord grew up at the home of his maternal grandparents in Belleville, New Jersey, after his parents separated.
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John Ricord studied law in 1829 in the office of his uncle, James Stryker, and was admitted to the bar in Buffalo, New York, on March 12,1833.
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Some time in the next few years another uncle, John Stryker, encouraged him to go to the Republic of Texas.
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John Ricord then served President Sam Houston as his secretary, then chief clerk in the State Department and District Attorney of the Fourth Judicial District on December 19,1836.
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John Ricord joined a wagon train from St Louis, Missouri, to the Oregon Territory by 1843.
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John Ricord was retained by Alvin F Waller as lawyer for a land dispute against John McLoughlin of the Hudson's Bay Company.
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John Ricord left from Vancouver, British Columbia in late 1843 with a group of missionaries including Jason Lee and Gustavus Hines.
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John Ricord arrived February 27,1844, in the Hawaiian Islands on the Columbia.
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John Ricord was the first Western-trained lawyer in the islands.
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John Ricord made an attempt to talk William Tecumseh Sherman and Richard Barnes Mason, then military governor of California, into letting him design a government for the territory as he had done for Hawaii.
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John Ricord was selected to judge a case between Thomas J Farnham and William Robert Garner.
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John Ricord is recorded as buying 6,102 acres of land surveyed by Chester Lyman in present-day Santa Clara County, California to the south of Rancho San Antonio.
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John Ricord spent short periods in Tahiti, Thailand, and other places in the Pacific Ocean.
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In December 1859 John Ricord was in Austin, Texas and persuaded the Texas Legislature to grant him land and salary for his services to the republic 33 years earlier.
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John Ricord then returned to visit relatives in New Jersey and after a few months went to Liberia.
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John Ricord died in Paris on March 26,1861, at the home of his uncle Philippe Ricord, personal physician to Napoleon III.