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County, Pennsylvania, Jan. 18, 1834, and was educated at the Indiana Academy in the State, graduating at Jefferson College, Canonsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1852. He was admitted to the Bar of Indiana County, Pennsylvania, in 1857. He was also a mem ber of the Constitutional Convention. Mr. Justice Williams was appointed Sept. I, 1887, and elected for the fall term in the following November. He was born at Hart ford, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, July 30, 1830, and educated at the Franklin Academy. He was admitted to the bar at the January term, 1854, at Wellsborough, Tioga County, Pennsylvania. He was school director there for several years, and three times elected Burgess. He was appointed a Judge of the Fourth District in March, 1865, and in the fall of that year was elected. In 1 87 1 he was elected President Judge of the same district, and in 1881 re-elected. He was also a member of the Constitutional Convention. He served in the Common Pleas as Judge and President Judge for twenty-two years continuously, during which time he was elected three times, twice re ceiving the support of both parties. Mr. Justice McCollum was chosen at the general election on Nov. 6, 1888. He was born near Montrose, in Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, Sept. 28, 1832, and educated at the common schools, entering later the Franklin Academy. He received the degree of LL.B. from the Law School at Poughkeepsie, New York, in 1853, entering the bar two years later. After a brief sojourn in what was then the West (Illinois), he re turned. In 1878 he was elected President Judge of Susquehanna County, and held the office for ten years. Mr. Justice Mitchell was born in Phila delphia, 1834. In 18*55 he graduated from Harvard University, and then studied law in Philadelphia with Mr. George W. Biddle. In 1858 he was admitted to the bar, and took his degree of LL.B. from the Univer sity of Pennsylvania in the following year.

He was subsequently appointed assistant in the Law Department by the City So licitor, Mr. Charles E. Lex. This pcfsi tion he resigned in 1863. In October, 1871, he was elected Judge of the District Court, Philadelphia County, and under the newConstitution of 1873 was assigned to Com mon Pleas No. 2, and was continuously re elected until his translation to the Supreme Court, which has, since Jan. 7, 1889, re ceived the benefit of his very wide and varied legal experience. Through the me dium of the " American Law Register," of which he was editor-in-chief for twentythree years, the profession is familiar with his writings. The highest court of Pennsylvania is now two hundred and seven years old, and has seen thirty-two men called to guide it through the years as securely as they might. The story is not a great one, perhaps, but for such a space of time, pretty honorable. In the hasty journey from 1684 to the present that has been attempted, the worthy men that have been dwelt upon so briefly and in a manner so inadequate to their distinction, have been made free with, so far as fitted the twin requisitions of truth and respect. Without presuming to measure the spirits to whose large industry and high thoughts this Commonwealth owes her welfare to-day, it has been the aim to bring up for a moment a pic ture of them as they may have been when an unknown world lay behind the Alleghanies, and ships came seldom up the Delaware. The bellicose Lloyd, the mellow-minded Logan, the formidable McKean, and others — of necessity too few — have been recalled a little, that the present may for a moment do that rare but gracious thing, — remem ber. Death has permitted a candid dealing with these justices of the past. In due time death will permit a candid dealing with their descendants. Note. — The author desires to thank the Hon. James T Mitchell for his courtesy in lending his engravings foi the illustrations of this article.