NEW YORK REPORTS COURT OF APPEALS STATE OF NY. 1900- 1908 BEDELL- 29 books

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Edwin A. Bedell
STATE REPORTER: 1900 - 1908
Edwin Bedell, born in Albany on October 9, 1853, was raised by his
grandfather after his parents’ death when he was a young child. He
attended Albany Academy and was graduated from Hope College,
Michigan, in 1873 with honors. After graduation, he studied law at
Albany Law School and in the office of Peckham & Tremain, being
admitted to the bar in 1874. He served as assistant to the Attorney
General for five years starting in 1884, leaving this position in 1889 to
join the Reporter’s office as Assistant State Reporter. Bedell continued
in this position for 12 years, during the tenures of Reporters Hiram E.
Sickels and Edmund H. Smith. Succeeding to the position of State
Reporter in June 1900, he served in this capacity until his death,
publishing 29 volumes of the New York Reports. Bedell was an expert
in copyright law and an accomplished musician. A member of the
Madison Avenue Reformed Church and its organist for 32 years, he
prepared “The Church Hymnary” in 1891. In 1883, he married
Caroline E. Sickels, daughter of the then State Reporter. Bedell died
on March 16, 1908.
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