Lazarus Hammond Read
Lazarus Hammond Read (or Reed; c. 1815 – March 1855)[1] was chief justice of the Supreme Court of the Utah Territory in 1852.
He served as District Attorney in Steuben County, New York. He was appointed to the Supreme Court of the Utah Territory by U.S. President Millard Fillmore.[2]
Reed resigned because of ill-health and was not in Utah for long. He returned to the East where he died in March 1855.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ "Death of Judge Read" (sic), The Buffalo Commercial (March 30, 1855), p. 2.
- ^ Dwight, B. W. The history of the descendants of Elder John Strong, of Northampton, Mass. Рипол Классик. ISBN 978-1-171-50174-9.
- ^ Joseph Fielding Smith, Essentials in Church History (1924), p. 494
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