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Rh Arbor, Mich., was established in the same year as the Law Department of Chicago University.

Oct. 6, 1873, the Law Department of the University of Chicago passed under the joint management and patronage of the University of Chicago and the Northwestern University, and assumed for the first time its present name,—Union College of Law. This Law School continued under such joint management until the suspension of the University of Chicago at the end of the school year 1885-1886. Since then it has continued in connection with the Northwestern University,—probably the largest University in the West,—of which the Rev. Joseph Cummings, D.D., LL.D., is President.

The Presidents of the different Boards of Trustees of the Union College of Law have been Judge Thomas Drummond, a graduate of Bowdoin College in 1826, and for thirty years a Judge of the United States Courts in Illinois; the late Hon. Thomas Hoyne, LL D., a truly great citizen, a philanthropist, a publicist, a public servant, and an able lawyer; and Judge Oliver H. Horton, a worthy successor to his distinguished predecessors, having long been the law partner of Thomas Hoyne, and being now a Judge of the Circuit Court of Cook County, Ill., sitting as a Chancellor.

During its whole history the school has had but one Dean,—Judge Henry Booth, LL.D. He was born at Roxbury, Litchfield County, Conn., in 1818, and was graduated at Yale College in 1840, ranking among the first in a class of ninety-nine. In 1844 he was graduated at the Law School at New Haven, Conn. Thence, until 1856, he was occupied chiefly in the practice of law at Towanda, Bradford County, in Pennsylvania, where he held the office of Prosecuting Attorney. From 1856 till 1859 Henry Booth was a Professor in the State and National Law School at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., and in 1859 took charge of the Law Department of Chicago University. Since then, except while upon the bench, he has practised law continuously, so far as his duties as instructor would allow. For a long time he gave instruction in Public and International Law in the Collegiate Department of the University of Chicago. In 1870 he was elected Judge of the Circuit Court of Cook County, to which office he was re-elected in 1873 for a term of six years. During his whole life in Chicago he has been a laborer in various ways for social and educational improvement, having rendered services, in the founding and patronage of the Chicago Athenæum, which alone entitle him to the truly graceful crown of a social benefactor. In the performance of his various duties, he has ever been prompt, industrious, faithful, and efficient. No man has a higher sense of honor than has Judge Booth. During his nine years of service as a Judge, he would not accept compensation for the performance of his duties as an instructor. The writer cannot more fitly characterize him as an instructor than was done by the graduating class of 1861 in a resolution adopted by them, which reads as follows:—

Next in length of service among the instructors of this school is the Hon. Harvey B. Hurd, whose connection therewith began in 1863. He has long been known as an able member of the Chicago Bar. His preparation and trial of causes has been characterized by a thoroughness which has given him a reputation for great strength in legal combat. He has been identified with many improvements in legislation. He revised the Statute Laws of the State after the adoption of the Constitution of 1870. His chief characteristic as an instructor is his searching questioning of the students. He treats the pupil as he would a witness upon cross-ex-