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Edgar Noble Durfee
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Edgar Noble Durfee, Assistant Pro fessor of Law, was born in Detroit, Mich., in 1882. In 1904 he graduated from Harvard, with the degree of A.B. In 1905 and 1906 he was in the Law Department of the University of Michigan. His later degree, Doctor of Jurisprudence, he received from the University of Chicago Law School in 1908. He was admitted to the Mich igan bar in 1907.
From 1908 to 1910 he practiced law in Detroit, first in the office of George L. Canfield and later in the firm of Drake & Durfee. Dur ing this time he was non-resident lec turer in the Law Department. 1910 -1911 he was Associate Professor of Law in the University of Idaho College of Law.
Professor Durfee was married June 28, 1911, to Amy Elea nor Savage, of Detroit.