1917 US DISTRICT COURT REFEREE LETTER LITTLE ROCK ARKANSAS DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

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HERE IS A LETTER WRITTEN ON PAPER FROM THE LAW OFFICES OF CHARLES C. WATERS A LITTLE ROCK. ARKANSAS ATTORNEY. HE SERVED FOR YEARS AS A REFEREE FOR THE WESTERN DIVISION OF EASTERN DISTRICT OF ARKANSAS.  HERE IS A LITTLE INFO ON HIM:
Since relinquishing that position he has given attent
ion to private law practice and
officiated as referee in bankruptcy for the western
division of the Eastern district
of the United States district court in Arkansas, embr
acing about seventeen
counties. Captain Waters is a member of the Loyal Legi
on and of the Grand Army
of the Republic for the state of Arkansas. He was also a Civil War veteran:
On becoming eighteen years old, young Waters enl
isted in Company A,
Ninety-first Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry, a
s a member of which
organization he served about a year, chiefly in Kentuc
ky. He was then
commissioned a first lieutenant in the Fifty-sixth Un
ited States Infantry and was
later promoted to a captaincy. He served with that re
giment during the remainder
of the war. Its headquarters were principally at Hel
ena, Arkansas, and when
hostilities were at an end he liked Arkansas well en
ough to decide to remain here.
Taking up the study of law in this state, he was in
1866-67 a student at the Harvard
Law School.   THE LETTER IS IN GOOD SHAPE, THE ENVELOPE HAS SEVERAL TEARS AND A PIECE MISSING WHERE IT WAS OPENED.