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 Rh ily trace their origin to John Dillingham, who emi grated from England as a member of the Winlhrop colony. Governor Dillingham's father was a farmer by occupation, and removed to Vermont in 1804 and settled in Waterbury. Paul was the seventh child of a family of five sons and seven daughters. The grandfather of the ex-Governor was a soldier in the " Old French War," and was slain in the conflict prior to Wolfe's capture of Quebec in 1759. His father was a patriot soldier in the Revolutionary army. Young Paul Dillingham attended the common school in Waterbury, and in 18 18 he entered the Washington County Grammar School at Montpelier. In 1820 he began the study of the law in the office of Judge Daniel Carpenter in his adopted village. Paul Dillingham was admitted to the Washington County Bar in March, 1823. and the following year was further admitted to practice in the Vermont Supreme Court. He formed a law partnership in 1823 with Judge Carpenter, under the firm name of Carpenter & Dillingham. The firm was dissolved in 1827 by reason of the elec tion of Mr. Carpenter as assistant judge of the Washington County Court. From that time until within a few years Mr. Dillingham was an active legal practitioner in the courts of Vermont. For many years he stood at the head of the profession in the State, and as a jury advocate he had no superior. Mr. Dillingham served as town clerk from 1829 to 1844. He was elected as representative to the Legislature in the years 1833, 1834, 1837, 1838, and 1839. He was also elected State Attorney in 1835, 1836, and 1837. He was a member of the State Constitutional Convention in 1836. In 1 S4 1 and 1842 he served as Senator in the General As sembly. He was nominated for member of Con gress at the Democratic District Convention in 1843, anfl elected at the ensuing election. He was the only Democrat in the Vermont delegation in Congress, and differed from his colleagues in the matter of annexation of Texas as widely as in other respects. Congressman Dillingham served as a member of the Judiciary Committee and also on the Committee on Claims. He was re-elected to Congress in 1845; he was a member of the State Constitutional Convention in 1857, and in 1861 was re-elected to the Vermont Senate from Washington County. Soon after the outbreak of the Rebellion he declared his allegiance to the Republican party. 57

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Mr. Dillingham was elected Lieutenant-Gover nor of the State in 1862, 1863, and 1864. The Republican State Convention in 1865 nominated him for Governor, and he was inaugurated in Oc tober, 1865. Mrs. Lelia Robinson Sawtelle died at Am herst, Mass., August 10. She entered the Boston University Law School in 1878. Two young women had previously matriculated there, but left before graduating. Miss Robinson took her de gree cum laude in 188 1, graduating fourth in rank in a class of thirty-odd members, the first woman in New England upon whom the degree of Bache lor of Laws was ever bestowed. In the fall of that year Miss Robinson applied for admission to the bar and the court. Chief-Justice Gray, now of the United States Supreme Court, asked to have the point argued, and requested the Bar Association to contest the application. The late ex-AttorneyGeneral C. R. Train presented an able brief pre pared by Miss Robinson, which was resisted by two eminent members of the bar, with the result that the application was dismissed. Unable to get into any law office as student or clerk, Miss Robin son opened an office for advice and such law work as her law school diploma permitted her to take. A month later Hon. John Hopkins of Millbury of fered a bill to the Legislature admitting women to the bar 011 the same terms as men. There was a hearing before the Joint Judiciary Committee, at which Miss Robinson appeared. The committee reported unanimously in favor of the bill, and it was passed unanimously. In June of 1882, after passing the bar examination, Miss Robinson was admitted to practice. She continued in active practice in Boston until 1884, when she went to Seattle, Wash., where she engaged in court work. In April, 1890, she married Eli A. Sawtelle, of Boston. During her wedding journey Mrs. Saw telle was admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court of the United States. She was the author of two books, — " Law Made Easy," " Law of Husband and Wife,"— and was one of the two women in America who have thus compiled books upon the law. Judge Hamilton Barclay Staples died at his home in Milford, Mass., August 22. He was born in Mendon, Worcester County, Feb. 14, 1829. He