George Burr Clementson an American

United States

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 attorney

Lawyer

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 and author

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 of The Road Rights and Liabilities of Wheelmen

The Road Rights and Liabilities of Wheelmen

The Road Rights and Liabilities of Wheelmen, written by George B. Clementson at the height of the bicycle's golden age, in 1895, was the first treatise on bicycle law. In the 1880s and 1890s, the prevailing legal issue cyclists faced was the question of the right to the road...

. Published in 1895, The Road Rights and Liabilities of Wheelmen was the first treatise

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 to address the legal rights and duties of cyclists; thus, Clementson was the first attorney to develop bicycle law

Bicycle law

Bicycle law is a specialized field of law relating to the use of bicycles. Although bicycle law is a relatively new specialty within the law, first appearing in the late 1980s, its roots date back to the 1880s and 1890s, when cyclists were using the courts to assert a legal right to use the roads....

 as an area of practice within the law

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George B. Clementson was the first child of the Honorable George Clementson

George Clementson

George Clementson , American attorney, later elected Judge of Wisconsin's Fifth Judicial Circuit. George Clementson was born in Yorkshire, England, to Joseph Clementson, a wheelwright, and Elizabeth Clementson; in 1849, the Clementson family emigrated from England to the United States, settling in...

, a Lancaster, Wisconsin

Lancaster, Wisconsin

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 attorney, later elected Judge, and Mary Asenath Burr, a distant relative of Aaron Burr

Aaron Burr

Aaron Burr, Jr. was an important political figure in the early history of the United States of America. After serving as a Continental Army officer in the Revolutionary War, Burr became a successful lawyer and politician...

. An 1892 graduate of Cornell Law School

Cornell Law School

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, George B. Clementson married Katharine F. Barber on October 23, 1906. Following in the footsteps of his father, he also established his law firm, Lowry & Clementson, in Lancaster, Wisconsin.