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Columbia University Law School 1903

for the Minnesota club, and was on the junior the SS Lincoln Hamburg-American Line. The

and senior football teams. During his senior liner left South Hampton, England and arrived
year, he played guard on the football team. After in New York City harbor on September 12,
graduating in 1907 with a teaching degree, he 1912. On November 24, 1913, he and Florence
taught in Bondin, Murray County, Minnesota Turner were married in downtown Manhattan,

public schools. In 1910, he was promoted to New York City harbor on September 12, 1912.
Superintendent of Schools at the age of 24. After America entered World War I, this liner
He boarded at the residence of George Turner was seized and converted into a troop ship. A
where he met George’s daughter Florence who German submarine torpedoed and sank the

was age 22. ship on May 31, 1918, after leaving France. After
Thaddeus decided to change careers to graduating from law school in 1913, Thaddeus
become an attorney. In 1911, he was accepted was admitted to the New York bar. He then found
to the Columbia University Law School in New a position with a Portland, Oregon law firm. He

York City. During his studies, he found time to was admitted to the Oregon Bar in 1914. (Next
participate in the Minnesota club while attending month learn more about Thaddeus Wellington Veness’s
law school. During the summer of 1912, he life after law school [Editor).
visited England and returned to America on

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