Bernard Crosby Whitman (October 25, 1827 – August 5, 1885) was a justice of the Supreme Court of Nevada from 1868 to 1875.
[1] Whitman graduated from Harvard College in 1846,[2] and read law with the Portland, Maine firm of Fessenden & Deblois.
[3] He married Mary Elizabeth Church on July 14, 1857, and moved to Virginia City, Nevada in 1864.
[3] Appointed to the Nevada Supreme Court in 1868, he served as chief justice from 1873 to 1874.
[3] Whitman "returned to California in 1882",[3] and died in San Francisco in 1885 at the age of 57.