Frederick Christian Struckmeyer, Sr.
Justice Frederick Christian Struckmeyer, Sr. (c. 1874-1955) was born in the town of Lübbecke ([ˈlʏbɛkə] (listen); Westphalian: Lübke) in northeast North Rhine-Westphalia in north Germany (not to be confused with the city of Lübeck).[citation needed] Struckmeyer moved to the Arizona Territory in 1909,[citation needed] shortly before the state incorporated into statehood on Valentine's Day, February 14, 1912.
Almost immediately after his birth, he was orphaned when both his parents died during a major Influenza (Flu) outbreak that same year (1874).[citation needed] The last of four children, including an older sister who took on the responsibility for raising he and another sister, Struckmeyer came into an inheritance in 1890 at age sixteen.[citation needed] At that time, he ventured to the recently-established German South West Africa (1884-1919), a colony of the German Empire.[citation needed] Finding nothing suitable to his tastes at the time, Struckmeyer continued moving, this time toward the United States, which was experiencing massive immigration following the U. S. Civil War. His elder brother, Carl, a Lutheran minister, had already emigrated to San Francisco, California.[citation needed]
After attending an Illinois College-preparatory school, Struckmeyer attended the University of Michigan Law School, but was only able to complete half the program before his funds ran out.[citation needed] At that time, he went to work for a law firm back in Chicago, Illinois.[citation needed]
After serving a two-year appointment (1921-1922) on the Arizona Superior Court, Struckmeyer returned to practicing law but continued serving the Superior Court as its court-appointed Code Commissioner. Following Arizona's admission into the United States union as the 48th and last of the contiguous states, the state's Statutes at inception (1913) were being continuously modified through the passage of new acts by the Arizona State Legislature. Struckmeyer was tasked with thoroughly revising the original 1913 Statutes, which had been enacted and subsequently modified in no real semblance of order, reference or even chronology. Beginning in 1923, he began revising the State Code, consolidating the otherwise disordered array of sessions laws, providing each Statute with distinct case-by-case annotative references, and editing the disparate entries to conform to a unified structure and effective grammar.[citation needed]
Struckmeyer was married to Inez Walker.[citation needed]
References[edit]
Arizona Bar Foundation Oral History Project: Arizona Legal History, Interview with Fred C. Struckmeyer, Jr., (Roger C. Mitten, May 21, 1991), (https://legallegacy.org/images/PDFs/JUSTICE_STRUCKMEYER_FRED_C._JR.pdf)
The revised statutes of Arizona, 1913: Civil Code (https://azmemory.azlibrary.gov/digital/collection/hxazstatutes/id/3/)
The revised code of Arizona, 1928 (https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/7652288)
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