January 10, 1882

Jacob Trieber of Helena (Phillips County) and Little Rock (Pulaski County), the first Jew to serve as a federal judge in the United States, married Ida Schradski of Peoria, Illinois. Trieber issued nationally important rulings on controversies that included antitrust cases, railroad litigation, prohibition cases, and mail fraud; some of his rulings, such as those regarding civil rights and wildlife conservation, have implications today. His broad interpretation of the constitutional guarantees of the Thirteenth Amendment, originally overturned by the post-Reconstruction U.S. Supreme Court, was validated sixty-five years later in a landmark 1968 equal opportunity case.