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 488 ing he went on a two-years' tour South, reading law all this time. In 1854 he returned from the South to Ohio, where he was admitted to the bar in the Circuit Court at Norwalk. In 1855 he removed to Ne braska, and was identified with its interests up to the time of his death. In 1858 he was elected to the House in the Territorial Council. Three times afterward he was elected to the Council, once to fill a vacancy, and twice for a full term. He aided in the framing of the present State Constitution. In 1867 he ran against William A. Little for Supreme Judge, and was beaten. On the death of Mr. Little, shortly after his election, Mr. Mason was appointed to fill the vacancy, and two years later was elected to fill the same place. Upon his retirement from the bench he resumed the practice of his profession, and was actively engaged in the same almost up to the time of his death. Judge Ogden Hoffman, the oldest Federal Judge on the Pacific coast, died August 9. Judge Hoffman was born in New York City on Oct. 16. 1822, his father being the famous Whig leader. He was graduated at Columbia College, and then studied law in Benjamin D. Silliman's office. When the gold fever broke out he went to Cali fornia, arriving in May, 1850. In the following year President Fillmore appointed him Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, a place which he held for forty years. Judge Hoffman had passed on many important cases, and he was noted for fairness and conscientiousness. His decisions were seldom reversed. Hon. Glenni W. Scofield died at his home at Warren, Penn., August 30. Judge Scofield was born in Dewittville, N. Y., March 11, 1817. He was educated in the common schools. At the age of fourteen he started to learn the printing trade, and at seventeen entered Hamilton College, New York; he graduated in 1840. He taught school for two years, — one year in Farquhar County, and another as Principal of McKean County Academy. He studied law while teach ing. He was admitted to the bar in 1842. He practised law in Warren, and was appointed Dis trict Attorney in 1846 by Governor Shunk. He served two years — 1849 and 1850 — as a mem ber of the Legislature. He was a Democrat until

1856. When the Republican party Was formed, he joined that party. He was elected to the State Senate. For a short time he was President Judge of Mercer, Venango, Clarion, and Jefferson Coun ties. He was a member of the Thirty-eighth, Thirty-ninth, Fortieth, Forty-first, Forty-second, and Forty-third Congresses, aud served on many important committees. He was Register of the Treasury under President Hayes. President Gar field appointed Mr. Scofield Judge of the Court of Claims He resigned in July last. Judge Lorenzo Sawyer, of San Francisco, died suddenly on September 6. He was bom in Jeffer son County, N. Y., in 1820. He went to Cali fornia in 1850, and in 1854 was elected CityAttorney of San Francisco. In 1862 he was appointed Judge of the Twelfth District Court, and in 1863 was elected Justice of the Supreme Court of California. In 1869 President Grant appointed him United States Circuit Judge. Through his connection, in his judicial capacity, with the suit brought by Sarah Althea Hill against Senator Sharon, of California, to get a share of the latter's fortune, on the ground that she had been his wife, Judge Sawyer incurred her enmity. In the year previous to the attack made by her hus band, Judge Terry, on Justice Field, when Terry was killed by United States Marshal Nagle, she attacked Judge Sawyer in a railway car. Judge Sawyer had long passed the age permitting him to retire, and for some time had contemplated such action. The death of Judge Sawyer leaves the Northern District of California without any Fed eral Judge, the late Judge Hoffman's place not yet having been filled. John H. B. Latrobe, the oldest lawyer in Maryland, and widely known as a jurist, author, and philanthropist, died in Baltimore, September 11, aged eighty-nine. Mr. Latrobe was a native of Philadelphia, and was first sent to school in Washington, where his father, who was the ar chitect in charge of the Capitol building, was then living. The War of 18 12 caused the suspen sion- of work on the building, and the Latrobe family removed to Pittsburg. Afterward they re turned to Washington, and young Latrobe was sent to Georgetown College, and then to the school of Mr. Carnahan, who later was President of Princeton College. He was appointed a cadet