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34 capacity, by Judge Dundy, and moved the admission to the bar of—


 * Eugene P. Jacobson
 * Alfred Sayre
 * Hugh Butler
 * Westbrooke S. Decker
 * John W. Jenkins
 * Mitchell Benedict and
 * Alfred I. Blake

as attorneys and counsellors at law, solicitors in chancery and proctors in admiralty.

All these are historic names in Colorado. The court records recite the indictment of one of them by the grand jury impaneled a little earlier on the same day, which shows that lawyers have improved in character, if not in capacity, since that time.

That the acknowledged versatility of this bar is no new thing, is evidenced by the fact that one of these seven selected leaders of the profession afterwards successfully combined the practice of law with the keeping of a livery stable.

Law, equity and admiralty (doubtless it was then thought the latter might draw unto itself jurisdiction over irrigation ditches) having been thus started on their course, with a nucleus of attorneys, solicitors and proctors, the admission of others, among the first of whom was Amos Steck, followed rapidly on the motion of divers of those first sworn in.

That was not quite forty years ago, but of the men who signed the roll that first day and thereafter during the first month of this court's existence,

George Q. Richmond
 * Owen E. Lefevre
 * William C. Kingsley
 * Robert E. Foote
 * Alfred C. Phelps
 * Robert S. Morrison and
 * Clinton Reed

only, still answer at roll-call; the others, that brainy, brilliant host of pioneer lawyers, who foregathered on Larimer Street in 1876, alas!

"The winds have blown them all away."