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 The Supreme Court of Indiana. month before his term expired, in order to take his seat on the Superior Court of Allen County, to which place he had just been unanimously elected. He died at Fort Wayne, June 2, 1884. His opinions are often very witty.1

Charles A. Ray. But one man born at the capital of the State of Indiana ever sat on the bench of the highest tribunal of the State, and that was Charles A. Ray, who was born Sept. 3, 1829. He attended the county seminary, having for one of his classmates Lew Wal lace, the author of "Ben Hur." After wards he attended Brown University, Providence, R. I., but was compelled to leave in his senior year, ow ing to the sickness of his father. In the course of a few years he studied law and at tended the law school at Cambridge, Mass., and entered the prac JOSEPH A. S. tice at his native home in 1853. In 1861 Gov ernor Morton appointed him judge of the Common Pleas Court of his own county, and the following year he was elected. While serving on the bench he was nominated by the Republicans for the Supreme Court and elected, taking his seat Jan. 3, 1865. In 1870 he was renominated, but went down with his ticket. After his defeat he formed a partnership, and entered on the practice of the law at Washington, D. C. While a resi dent of Washington he was connected for three years with the law department of the 1 See Waugh v. Waugh, 47 Ind. 580.

General Post-Office, resigning in 1882. He returned temporarily to Indianapolis, and then went to Rochester, N. Y., to assume edito rial charge of the " Western Reporter" (law). At present he is practising law in New York City. Judge Kay is the author of " Negligence of Imposed Duties." This book has been well received by the profes sion. His judicial opinions stand well the test of the times, and are able, showing that they emanated from a sound legal mind. At the time he ascended the Supreme Court bench he was in his thirty-sixth year. Robert C. Gregory. Robert C. Gregory was born in Knox County, Ky., Feb. 15, 1811. In 18 1 2 his father moved to this State. After reading law, young Gregory opened an office at Crawfordsville, Ind, and from that place was elected State Senator in 1841. In 1843 he moved to La Fayette, Ind. In 1850 he was MITCHELL. nominated as a dele gate to the State con stitutional convention, but was defeated by a party vote. Subsequently he was a candi date for the legislature and for Congress, but went down with his party, although he led the ticket by several hundred votes. In 1864 he was nominated for the Supreme Court bench and elected; but in 1870, though nom inated, he was defeated. He was a Whig so long as the party existed as a political force, and then a Republican. Judge Gregory was a genial gentleman, well beloved and admired by all who knew him; his mind moved slowly, but when in