Irving G. Vann

Irving Goodwin Vann (January 3, 1842 – March 22, 1921) was an American lawyer, judge and politician from New York.

Upon graduation from Albany Law School, Vann worked briefly for the Department of Treasury in Washington, D.C., but within a year he returned home to central New York and joined the law firm of Raynor and Butler in Syracuse.

Vann married Julie Florence Dillaye (1846-1934), the daughter of a Syracuse real estate developer, on October 11, 1870.

[3] In 1896, he was elected on the Republican ticket to a full term on the Court of Appeals, was re-elected in 1910, and remained on the bench until the end of 1912 when he reached the constitutional age limit of 70 years.

[5] (After his retirement as a judge, he had been appointed an official referee to hear claims arising out of the construction of the barge canal).