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grandfather, John Lawrence, emigrated to office he held till his death, Sept 18, 1888. Watertown, Massachusetts, in 1636. Charles From June 16, 1879, till he died, he, by B. Lawrence was graduated at Union College selection of the Supreme Court, served as in 184 1, taught school in Alabama, studied Judge of the Appellate Court of Illinois for the First District. His large number of law in the office of Alphonso Taft in Cincin printed opinions while upon the benches of nati and Senator Geyer in St. Louis, prac tised law at Quincy, Illinois, and was a the Supreme and Appellate Courts have Circuit Judge three years from July, 1861. given him high rank for judicial ability. Thomas A. Moran, his associate on the He wrote the opinion of the Court in C. & A. Appellate Bench,

R. R. Co. v. The Peo spoke of him as fol ple, 67 lll. 11. This lows ("Chicago Legal opinion was concurred News," vol. xxii. p. in by the whole court, 99) : " Why is it that, yet it so offended the go where you will in Granger element in this community, politics that he was among the common defeated of re-election. people, though they He then came to Chi had never perhaps seen cago, where he com the man, they speak manded a large and re of him with reverence munerative practice, and love? ... I be and the entire and lieve there exists be highest respect of the tween such men as people till his death, William King McAl April 9, 1883. His lister and the great nephew, Charles H. people some imper Lawrence, who prac ceptible chord . . . and tised with him after that it is intuitively 1873, now practises in felt that such a heart Chicago. beats in exact time Anthony Thornton, with the great heart a Kentuckian by birth, of the common people. received a collegiate JOSEPH MEAD BAILEY . . . He loved every education, was a mem thing in Nature. He ber of the Lower loved his country. . . . He loved society and House of the Illinois Legislature and of Con order. . . . He loved the trees, the flowers, gress. He was in the Constitutional Con ventions of 1847 and 1862, and a Judge of but above all he loved his fellow-men." Theophilus Lyle Dickey, Judge of this this court from July, 1870, till his resigna tion, May, 1873, since which time he has Court from December, 1875, till his death, lived at Shelbyville, Illinois, active in the July 22, 1885, and Chief-Justice one year of practice of law. that time, was born in Bourbon County, William King McAllister came to Chicago Kentucky, Oct. 3, 1811, of Scotch-Irish from New York in 1854. He practised law ancestry, was graduated at Miami University, till he was elected to the Supreme Court in Oxford, Ohio, taught school, studied law in 1870. He resigned, Nov. 26, 1875, and the office of Cyrus Walker, organized a com immediately became a Judge of the Circuit pany and fought in the Mexican War, was a Court of Cook County, at Chicago, which Circuit Judge, raised a regiment of cavalry