DARTMOUTH ALUMNI FIGURE IN COURT APPOINTMENTS
Under the heading "Of Dartmouth Interest" in his weekly newspaper letter from Concord, H. C. Pearson '93 reported extensive changes in the personnel of New Hampshire's higher courts. "The most extensive changes in many years in the personnel of New Hampshire's higher courts were practically completed last week," said Mr. Pearson, "though they will not go into effect in full until the first week in September, when Frank N. Parsons, a justice of the supreme court since 1895 and its chief justice since 1902 reaches his 70th birthday on the 3rd of the month and under the provisions of the state constitution automatically retires from the bench. Born in Dover, Chief Justice Parsons was educated at Pinkerton Academy, of whose board of trustees he is president, and at Dartmouth College, of which institution, also, he has been a trustee, ex-ojfficio, as chief justice. Judge Parsons was the law partner and son-in-law of the late U. S. Senator Austin F. Pike, of Franklin; was the first mayor of that city; and served as state law reporter and as a member of Governor John B. Smith's council before going on the bench.
"By nomination of Governor Fred H. Brown, which will be unanimously confirmed by the executive council at its next meeting, the new chief justice will be John E. Young of Exeter, who entered Dartmouth as a freshman the year Judge Parsons graduated, 1874. Judge Young was the law partner at Exeter of the late General Gilman Marston and of Attorney General Edwin G. Eastman until 1898, when he was named to the supreme bench, upon which he has since served. He will occupy the position of chief justice but a few months, for his 70th birthday is January 26, 1925.
"To fill the vacancy caused by Judge Young's prospective promotion, Governor Brown made another promotion, that of Judge John Eliot Allen of Keene from the superior to the supreme court. Judge Allen is another Dartmouth man, of the class of 1894, and a Harvard Law School graduate. He was born in Claremont and is the son of Judge William H. H. Allen, who was on the supreme bench from 1876 to 1893. The younger Judge Allen, before going on the bench in 1917, was an instructor in Dartmouth College, city solicitor .of Keene and judge of probate of Cheshire county."
