Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Henry Samuel Priest was a United States federal judge for Missouri. Born in Ralls County, Missouri, Priest received an A.B. from Westminster College in 1872. He read law in 1873 and entered private practice in Moberly, Missouri. There he served as city attorney, and was an attorney for the Missouri Pacific Railroad and Wabash Railroad from 1881 to 1894. On August 6, 1894, President Grover Cleveland nominated Priest to the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, to a seat vacated by Amos M. Thayer.