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 Rh the persecution of the soldiery who overran the southern part of the State, Judge Stites was ad vised by his friends to leave. This he did, and went to Canada, where he remained with his wife until the war was over. On his return to Ken tucky, in January, 1866, he located in Louisville and resumed the practice of his profession, in conjunction with the Hon. Joshua F. Bullitt, with whom he had been associated in the Court of Ap peals. While pursuing his profession a vacancy occurred in the office of Judge of the Court of Common Pleas by the resignation of Judge Muir. To this place Judge Stites was appointed on the unanimous recommendation of the Louisville Bar, by Governor Stevenson, in October, 1867. In August, 1868, the people elected him to the same office without opposition, and again in 1874 and 1880. Hon. Augustus R. Wright, an eminent mem ber of the Georgia Bar, died on March 31. He was born at Wrightsboro, Ga., June 16, 18 13. He was admitted to the bar in 1833, and opened an office at Crawfordville. The following year he removed to Cherokee County, and located at Cassville. He at once shared the emolu ments and honors of the practice with the best talents of the Cherokee Bar, — at that time distinguished by the names of Underwood, Shack elford, Trippe, and others. In the twenty-ninth year of his age, and eighth of his practice, he was elected by the Legislature Judge of the Superior Court of the Cherokee Circuit; and after con tinuing in office seven years, he resigned his position and returned to the bar.

Hon. Wm. B. Wood, for many years Judge of the Northern Circuit of Alabama, died in Florence, Ah., on April 5. Judge Wood was born in Nashville, Tenn., Oct. 31, 1820. He represented one of the purest lines of Southern blood; his grandfather was the Secretary of Alexander Ham ilton; his father, Alexander Hamilton Wood, was born in Virginia; his mother, Mary Evans Wood, was a native of England. His father was an officer in the War of 18 12.

F.x-Judge Henry Chapman died April 11, at his residence near Doylestown, Penn., at the age of

eighty-eight. He was born Feb. 4, 1804, at New town, Bucks County, Penn. In 1843 he was elected to the State Senate. In 1845 Chapman was appointed Judge of the Chester-Delaware Judicial District by Governor Shunk, and continued in that capacity for four years. In 1856 he was elected to Congress. In 1861 he was elected Judge of the Bucks County Court, and served with marked ability until 1871, when he declined a re-nomination and retired to private life. For many years past Judge Chapman had lived in re tirement at his country-seat near Doylestown.

Divie Bethune Duffield, who died at Detroit, March 11, 1891, was one of a family that has constituted in Michigan a sort of dynasty, much like that of the Adamses, the Beechers, or the Fields. His father was a well-known Presbyterian divine, whose children have all been conspicuous, whether in peace or war, in the professions of law, medicine, and divinity, in literature and the hu manities. His mother was a sister of George Washington Bethune; his grandmother was the famous Isabella Graham; his father, a rigid Calvinist, yet so liberal in his time as to have been put on trial for his opinions, was stricken with paralysis while in the pulpit; his great grandfather was chaplain to the Continental Congress; of his brothers, George was a D.D., a Regent of the University of Michigan, and, like himself, a poet; William W. was a Union Brigadier; Samuel P. a chemical expert, and at present Health Officer of Detroit; Henry M. a soldier, a leader in Michi gan politics, and formerly City Counsellor for De troit; one of his nephews was that brilliant and promising poet and divine, Samuel Willoughby Duffield. D. Bethune Duffield was born at Carlisle, Penn., August 21, 1821; as a child he was a favorite with old Chief-Justice Gibson, who used to hold him on his knee; he was ready to enter Dickinson Col lege at twelve, and did enter the class of 1840 at Yale, which gave him her diploma, though he left before graduation. In 1844 he went into partnership at Detroit with G. V. N. Lothrop, since Minister to Russia; he was secretary of the Detroit Bar Association for twenty years; City At torney and Commissioner of the United States Court; and for about a dozen years a member of the Board of Education, of which body he was