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charges to the grand juries in 1819 that the traffic was brouglit to a close. He opposed the Missouri compromise and spoke in a public meeting held in Salem against the measure. He was a nieml)er of the committee appointed to revise the consti- tution of Massachusetts in 1820, and opposed the motion that the legislature should have the power to diminish the salaries of the judges of the supreme court. He was Dane professor of law at Harvard, 1829-4.'j, and removed to Cam- bridge, Mass. In 1831 he declined the office of ciiief justice of ^lassachusetts. After the death of John Marshall, lie acted as chief justice in the U.S. supreme court until the confirmation of Roger B. Taney, and again in 1844, during the illness of Taney. He was an overseer of Harvard college, 1818-25; a fellow, 182.')-4.5; a member of the Massachusetts Historical society; a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of the American Philosophical so- ciety. The hon- orary degree of LL.D, was con- ferred on him by Brown in 1815, by Har- vard in 1821, and by Dart- mouth in 1824. His name in "Class J,

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Lawyers," re- ceived sixty-four votes ill the con- sideration of names for a place in the Hall of Fame, New York Univer- sity, October, 1900, and was accorded a place with those of James Kent and John Marshall. He is the author of: The Poicer of Solitude, tcith Fugi- tive Poems (1804); Selection of Pleadings in Civil Actions (1805), and numerous text books on jurisprudence, including: Commentaries on the Laio of Bailments (1832); Commentaries on the Comtitntion of the United States (3 vols., 18-33); Commentaries on the Conflict of Laws (1834); Commentaries on Equity Jurisprudence (2 vols., 183.5-36); Equitij Pleadings (18.38); Law of Agency (1839): Law of Partnership {\ii^\); Law of Bills of Exchange (1843), and Laio of Promissory Notes (1845). He edited " Chitty on Bills of Ex- change and Promi.ssorv Notes" (1809); "Abbot on Shipping" (1810), and " Laws on Assumpsit" (1811). and contributed to the Xorth American Revietv. the American Jurist, and the " Eiicyclo- pcedia Americana." He left unfinished a Digest

of Imw, which is in the Harvard Law library; and a collection of Miscellaneous Writings was published in 1835, and an enlarged edition edited by liis son, William Wetmore Story, appeared after his death (2 vols.. 1851). He died in Cam- bridge. Mass., Sept. 10, 1845.

STORY, Julian, arti.st, was born in Oxford, Eng- land; son of William Wetmore (q.v.)and Emelyn (Eldridge) Story. His boj'hood was spent in Rome. Italy, where he met many noted artists, who visited his father's .studio. He waseducated at Eton college and at Oxford university, .studied art under Duveneck, Boulanger and Lefebvre in Paris, where he opened an atelier. He was mar- ried, Aug. 1, 1891, to Emma Eames, prima donna (q.v.), and in 1896 built a beavitiful home on the site of his old .studio on the Place des tltats Unis. He received the 3d class medal and honorable mention from the Paris salon, 1889; gold medal, Berlin, 1891, and silver medal at the Paris ex- position in 1900. He was elected a member of the Society of American Artists. His portrait of Emma Eames was exhibited at the Chicago ex- position in 1893, and among his other portraits is tliat of the Prince of Wales, painted for William Waldorf Astor, and its replica, painted for the Prince.

STORY, William Wetmore, artist and author, was born in Salem, Mass., Feb. 12, 1819; son of Jo.seph Story. He was graduated from Harvard, A.B., 1838, A.M., 1841; studied law under his father, and was admitted to the bar. He prepared '• Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Circuit Court of the United States for the First Circuit" (3 vols. 1842-47); "Treatise on the Law of Contracts not under Seal " (1844), and " Trea- tise on the Law of Sales of Personal Property" (1847). In 1848 he went to Ital}-, where lie studied sculp- ture, becoming well known for his por- trait busts and stat- ues. He was a U.S. commissioner on fine arts to the ex- position at Paris in 1879, and held a professorship in the Academy of St. Cecilia, Rome; was a fellow of the American Acad- emy; con-espoiul- ing member of the MaHsachu.setts His- torical society; chevalier of the order of Fran- cis I., and an officer of the Legion of Honor. The lionorary degree of LL.B. was conferred on

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FRANCIS SCOTT KEY.