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pointed April 6, 1874, and retired Jan. 11, election Mr. Cornell was elected, and Judge 1875. He was born in Boston in 1839, and Young returned to the bar. In 1878 he was educated at the Boston Latin School and appointed by the Legislature to revise the Harvard University, graduating from the statutes of the State, which service he per academic department at Harvard in 1860, formed in a manner very satisfactory to the and from the Law School three years later. bar of the State. He is at present the offi After a period of practice in New York cial reporter of the decisions of the Supreme City, he came to Minnesota and located in Court, and lecturer on the Conflict of Laws Minneapolis about 1870. His appointment in the Law Department of the University

was a great surprise of Minnesota. to the bar and the F. R. E. Cornell community. When was born in Coventry, Chief-Justice Ripley Chenango County, retired from the New York, Nov. 17, bench, it was gener 1821. He was gradu ally conceded that ated from Union Col his successor should lege in 1842, and was admitted to the bar of come from Minneap olis, and the people the Supreme Court at of that city almost Albany in 1846. Im unanimously united mediately thereafter in recommending F. he commenced the practice of law at R. E. Cornell for that Addison, Steuben position. Much to County, where he re the astonishment of mained until 1854. the public, Governor He was a member of Davis named Associ ate Justice McMillan the State Senate of New York for 1852 as Chief-Justice, and and 1853. In the year George B. Young as 1854 he removed to McMillan's successor. Minneapolis, which Mr. Young had re GEORGE B. YOUNG. was his home until his sided in the State but (From a photograph taken while he was on the bench). about four years, and death. Judge Cornell was Mr. Cornell's friends were very indignant that he should be a member of the State Legislature in 186i, passed over, and the great professional prize 1862, and 1865, and Attorney-General of the given to so young a man. " Governor Davis State from Jan. 10, 1868, to Jan. 9, 1874. has committed an enormous blunder," wrote In November, 1874, he was elected Asso the editor of a Minneapolis paper, "or else ciate Justice of the Supreme Court, and he is a prophet and the people of Hennepin qualified and took his seat on the 11th of County are fools." In the light of Judge the same month. He died in Minneapolis Young's subsequent brilliant career at the on the 23d day of May, 188 i. Judge Cornell was an able lawyer. I can bar, many people now believe that the Gov ernor was endowed with at least a measure not better characterize him than by quoting of prophetic vision. In the few months of from an address delivered by the late exhis term'Judge Young gave ample evidence Attorney-General Gordon E. Cole, himself of fine judicial ability. At the November one of the ablest lawyers of the Northwest :