Benjamin Franklin Ferriss (September 22, 1849 – November 10, 1933) was a Missouri state jurist known for his role as special master in the Standard Oil trust litigation of the Progressive Era.
[1] He earned his Bachelor of Science degree at Cornell University in 1873, serving as Captain of the 1873 Crew Team,[2] joined Phi Kappa Psi fraternity, and was member of the Irving Literary Society.
a frank, wholesome woman, amiable & natural; no doubt a good friend and excellent mother and wife; with nothing of the precieuse offensiveness of manner .
In 1907, Ferriss was appointed by the U.S. Government to serve as special examiner in the case of United States v. Standard Oil Company.
Governor Herbert Spencer Hadley then appointed Ferriss to the Supreme Court of the State of Missouri in 1910, filling a vacancy caused by Burgess' death.
A critic of the École des Beaux-Arts, Hugh Ferriss became known for his arresting drawings of skyscrapers and futuristic cityscapes in the 1920s and 1930s.
[12] The younger Ferriss served on the St. Louis County Circuit Court from 1954 to 1981, after a stint at Slakey & Jones and in the United States Army (European Theatre, 1941–1945).