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ments, and was left substantially as origi equal of any of that profession of the pres ent time. Governor Coles having taken nally prepared in 1825." Ex-Chief-Justice Caton said ("Chicago Le a short leave of absence from the State, Hubbard assumed the Governor's office, gal News," April 20, 1889) : " If Judge Lockand on the return of Governor Coles wood was not a great man, he was a good He had been a asserted the right under the Constitution man and a good judge. close student of the law. . . . His style of to hold the office " until the time ap pointed for the election of Governor." Of writing was easy and perspicuous ... he was a close and accurate thinker." Judge

course his first act was to appoint some offi Lockwood died at Bacer. This honor was tavia, Illinois, April conferred on W. L. D. Ewing, whom he ap 23. 1874His " Life and pointed PaymasterGeneral of the Illinois Times " was written Militia. Upon the re-' by William Coffin, and published at Chicago fusal of the Secretary of State to issue a com in 1889. mission to the new Judge Smith is one appointee, application of the striking char was made to the Su acters in the history preme Court for a writ . of the legal profession of mandamus to com I in Illinois. He was pel the Secretary to born in New York issue the commission. City, Sept. 28, 1784, studied law in the ofIn an opinion evincing ficeof Aaron Burr, was extended research, the a fellow-student of application was denied. Washington Irving, Of the twenty-three was admitted to the cases decided at the two bar in 1805, came to terms in 1825, Judge Illinois in 1816, served Lockwood wrote the two terms as State opinion in thirteen, Senator, and upon the as much of the work GUSTAVUS P. KOERNER Supreme Bench for frequently devolved seventeen years eleven upon him. Hon. Al fred M. Craig, a judge of this court, in months and seven days. All historians have charged to him a great deal of political and an address at the laying of the corner stone of the Knox County Court House, other intrigtie. His activity as a politician in 1885, said: "Our criminal code, with made him enemies. These enemies and his acts of doubtful honesty brought upon him but few amendments, has been in exist ence since 1825. It was drafted ... by a trial for impeachment in which he barely Judge Lockwood, one of the ablest judges escaped defeat In Linder's " Early Bench and Bar of Illinois," one of the many positions our State ever produced. We had a con of apparently doubtful honor which he oc stitutional convention in 1847, am' again in cupied is thus described : " Judge Smith de 1870, since when the Legislature has revised livered the opinion of the Supreme Court in our statutes; but while the statutes on vari the case of Beaubien against the United ous subjects were changed, the Criminal States, involving the title to the old Fort Code was found to need but few amend-