WIGMORE, JOHN HENRY

born March 4, 1863, San Francisco, Calif., U.S. died April 20, 1943, Chicago, Ill. American legal scholar and teacher whose 10-volume Treatise on the Anglo-American System of Evidence in Trials at Common Law (190405), usually called Wigmore on Evidence, is generally regarded as one of the world's great books on law. A Harvard graduate (B.A., 1883; LL.B., 1887), Wigmore taught at Keio University in Tokyo (188992) and at Northwestern University Law School, Chicago (from 1893; dean, 190129). He served as a colonel on the judge advocate general's staff during World War I and as an Illinois commissioner on uniform state laws (190824, 193343).