| Rollin John Wells "Rollin J. Wells, senior member of the well-known and prominent law firm of Wells & Blackman, of Sioux Falls, was born in the city of Moline, Illinois, on the 24th of June, 1848, and is a son of Luke and Harriet (Robinson) Wells. After completing the curriculum of the public schools of his native city Mr. Wells was matriculated in the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, in the literary department of which celebrated institution he continued his studies for two years, after which he was for a time engaged in teaching in the public schools of his native state. He began the reading of law in the office and under the direction of Judge George E. Waite, of Geneseo, Illinois, and was admitted to the bar of the state in 1878. In the same year he came to Sioux Falls and established himself in practice as one of the pioneer members of the bar of this state, while in 1887 he was admitted to practice in the supreme court of the United States. Mr. Wells conducted an individual practice until 1881, when he entered into a professional partnership with William A. Wilkes, under the firm name of Wilkes & Wells, this alliance continuing until 1890, when he entered into his present professional association with,George T. Blackman." [Rollin J. Wells, in Poetry Rollin J. Wells, Hagar, a Dramatic Poem in Three Acts (New York: Broadway Publishing, 1903) ___________, Pleasure and Pain: Poems (New York: Broadway Pub. Co., 1913) |
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