Home & Office of Wm. Herring

From this address, William Herring practiced law in Tombstone's turbulent 1880s, when a mining boom kept the courts as busy as the saloons. A former Attorney General of Arizona Territory, he was among the attorneys drawn into the legal aftermath of the O.K. Corral. His daughter Sarah Herring Sorin read law under him here and became Arizona's first woman attorney, and the first woman to argue a case unassisted before the U.S. Supreme Court. The plaque marks a working household that helped shape territorial law.

What the plaque says

Home and Office of Wm. Herring. The attorney for the Earps' at their 2nd trial after the O.K. Corral gunfight. He wrote 3/4 of the Arizona State Constitution., 2nd Plaque , This property has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Tombstone — steps away
  The silver strike named for a death that never came
• Bisbee — 21 mi
  Queen of the Copper Camps — and the deportation it tried to forget

More markers nearby

• Bird Cage Theatre — steps away
• "Buckskin" Frank Leslie & Luke Short — steps away
• Sacred Heart Church — steps away
• Schieffelin Hall — steps away