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had been in the country district schools of his native county, and after a hard struggle and the bravest perseverance he was admitted to the bar of that county in 1856, when he was twentyeight years old. He practised there two years, and removed to Trenton, Mo., where he resided until his death, and rose to a pre-eminent position at the bar, there being probably but two gentle men in his circuit who approached near him in legal acumen, or force and brilliancy as an advo cate and orator. When the Civil War began, in 1 86 1, Judge DeBolt recruited a company of brave young Missourians for the Union service, and was elected their captain. W hile leading his men in charge at the battle of Shiloh, April 6, 1862, he was taken prisoner, and detained in Rebel prisons several months, when he was exchanged, and again entered the service as Major of the Forty-fourth Missouri Volunteer Infantry, and was mustered out as such in 1865. In 1863, while home on a sickfurlough, he was elected Judge of the Eleventh Missouri Circuit, and held the office by re-election to Jan. i, 1875, discharging its duties from the close of the war in 1865 with marked ability. In 1874 he was elected to Congress as a Democrat, took his seat in that body March 4, 1875, held the office until 1877, when he returned to the practice of his profession, and pursued it with marked success until prevented by the sickness which caused his death. He was a profound law yer, a forcible, brave, eloquent, and, when occa sion required, a fiery orator on the hustings and in the forum, yet was courtly and gentle withal to the highest degree. In 1889 he was elected Grand Master of I. O. O. F. for Missouri, and was Grand Representative from his State to the Sovereign Grand Lodge of that order at the time of his death. Judge DeBolt was twice married, first to Miss Maria M. McCleery, of Lancaster, Ohio, June 19, 1849, by whom he had six chil dren, — three of whom are living and three dead. After her death he was married, Oct. 12, 1869, to Miss Lauristine U. I Hnsmoor, a native of Canada, but who was reared in New York, who survives him, with the seven children of their marriage. She is a highly accomplished lady, and assisted the Judge greatly in his political and legal ambi tions; and when he was Grand Master of I. O. O. F. of Missouri in 1889, she was elected to the highest office of the feminine branch of the order in the State. William A. Wood.

Hon. Daniel Barnaro, Attorney-General of the State of New Hampshire, died in Franklin, N. H., on January 10. He was born in Orange, N. H., on Jan. 23, 1827, and received his education in the district schools and academies of his native State. In 1851 he went to Franklin and studied law with Hon. George W. Nesmith and Hon. Austin F. Pike, who were then in partnership. Upon being admitted to the bar, in 1854, he formed a law part nership with Mr. Pike, which continued till 1863, when he withdrew and went into practice alone. In 1860 and 1862 he represented the town of Franklin in the Legislature, and in 1865 and 1866 was elected to the State Senate from the district in which he resided. He filled the office of Presi dent of the Senate during his last term in that body. In 1870 and 1871 he was elected a member of the Governor's Council, and in 1872 was a member of the National Republican Convention at Philadel phia. From 1867 till 1872, when he declined a reappointment, he served as solicitor of Merrimac County, and on Feb. 3, 1887, he was chosen attor ney-general to succeed Hon. Mason W. Tappan, deceased, and held this office at the time of his death. In 1867 Dartmouth College conferred upon him the honorary degree of Master of Arts. The deceased was a man who in professional and social life enjoyed the respect and esteem of people to an eminent degree. He was an indus trious, well-read lawyer of marked ability, and oc cupied a conspicuous place in the front rank of his profession. In practice he was always faithful to the interests of his clients, and in the performance of his public duties he adhered inflexibly to a course dictated by his remarkably keen and seldom erring sense of right.

Hon. Richard Pratt Marvin died in James town, N. Y., on January 11, at the age of eightynine years. He was one of the best known jurists of the State of New York, a man of great ability and sterling integrity. He was born in Fairfield, Herkimer County, N. Y., Dec. 23, 1803, and was a lineal descendant of Reinold Marvin, one of the original settlers of Hartford. Conn. The early years of his life were passed on a farm. In 1826, after having obtained a common-school education and some knowledge of Latin, Mr. Marvin began the study of law in the office of George W. Scott, in Newark, Wayne