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Carl Smith Jefferson

C. S. Jefferson / The following tribute was prepared by O. W. Dynes, recently retired counsel for trustees of The Milwaukee Road, who was for many years a close friend and associate of the late C. S. Jefferson, general solicitor. ENDING an illness of more than a year, death came to Carl Smith Jefferson, 65, on June 2. He was born Aug. 31, 1876, in Madison, Wis., one of three sons of Beverly and Ann Smith Jefferson, and was there reared and educated. When a student in Wisconsin University he pursued a literary course. Delta Tau Delta was his fraternity in the university law school from which he was graduated in 1896, the year of his admission to the practice of law in Wisconsin. Two years later, on June 15, he was employed by the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company as clerk in the office of its general counsel, George R. Peck, where he studied Illinois practice and procedure and later was admitted to practice in Illinois and in federal courts. He was in the service of The Milwaukee Road continuously to the time of his death with the exception of his service period in the Army during 1918. In his railroad career he progressed by normal stages from law clerk to general solicitor, which position he held during the last 10 years of his life. 1941 July.