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The St. Louis Law School. Supreme Court of Missouri, and who has since been so well known to the legal profession as Professor at the Harvard Law School; Hon. Albert Todd, and Henry Hitchcock.

A special feature of the organization was the appointment of an Advisory and Examining Board, composed of prominent members of the bench and bar, with the duties indicated by the title, and as to which more will be said.

The first Advisory and Examining Board included Hon. Samuel F. Miller, Justice of the United States Supreme Court; Hon. David Wagner, then Chief-Justice of Missouri; Hon. Arnold Krekel. United States Judge in the Western District of the State; Hon. Samuel Reber and Hon. Charles B. Lord, of the St. Louis Circuit Court; and James O. Broadhead, Samuel T. Glover, John R. Shepley, John M. Krum, and C. C. Whittlesey, all prominent members of the St. Louis Bar.

Hon. Henry Hitchcock was the first Dean of the Faculty, and upon him devolved the executive management of the new enterprise. From the first suggestion of a law school, Mr. Hitchcock was indefatigable in his efforts to advance it; and by his personal influence, and as a Director of Washington University, he contributed in a peculiar sense to its success.

ALEXANDER MARTIN.

Mr. Hitchcock comes from a family of distinguished lawyers. Samuel Hitchcock of Vermont, his grandfather, was appointed United States Circuit Judge by President John Adams in 1801. His father, Henry Hitchcock, was Chief-Justice of Alabama, in which State the present Henry Hitchcock was born. He was graduated from the University of Nashville, Tenn., in 1846, and from Yale College in 1848, at the age of nineteen. In 1875 Yale conferred on him the honorary degree of LL.D. Even at the time the St. Louis Law School was first projected in 1860, he was one of the leading lawyers of St. Louis, and he has since acquired a national reputation as a jurist. During the war he was Assistant Adjutant-General and Judge-Advocate on General Sherman's staff.

The scholarly bent of Mr. Hitchcock's mind and the scope of his attainments have made him prominent in the discussion of constitutional questions. He was one of the founders and has been an active member of the American Bar Association; a member of its Committee on Jurisprudence continuously from its organization; he has been President of the Missouri State Bar Association and the St. Louis Bar Association, and is well known as the author of able papers read before all of them, and as the promoter of needed reforms in the law. His paper on "The Inviolability of Telegrams," read before the American Bar Association in 1879, has received the unusual compliment of being quoted as authority in appellate courts.

In 1882 he was associated with Edward J. Phelps, Clarkson N. Potter, William M.