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 The Supreme Court of Kansas. mer, until he was unfortunate enough to lose his hand in the cylinder of a threshingmachine. This in one sense was a misfor tune only, for he then turned his attention to a more regular system of schooling, at tended the Ithaca Academy for a short time, then, his family having moved to the adjoin ing county of Schuyler, he was sent to Watkins Academy, from which institution he was graduated. After graduation he took a select course superintended by John A. Gillett, which he continued for one year, and then commenced the study of law. He became a student in the office of Dana, Beers & Howard, prominent in the profes sion at Ithaca; but after remaining with them a short time, removed to Tioga County, Penn., and entered the law office of his cousin Butler B. Strang, from which he was admitted to the practice, in partnership with his preceptor. Judge Strang was elected and served one term as District Attorney for Tioga County, shortly after which he emigrated to Kansas, settling at Larned, Pawnee County, in the spring of 1877. The following spring he was elected County Attorney for two years. In 1880 was elected State Senator, serving during the first session, then resigned to ac cept the appointment of District Judge of the Sixteenth Judicial District. He was elected to succeed himself in the fall, and re-elected in 1885, in which capacity he served until June, 1889, when he declined a renomination, deciding to re-enter the practice, but at this juncture was tendered the position of Su preme Court Commissioner, to take effect March 1, 1890, which he accepted. Judge Strang was one of the four del egates at large for Kansas to the Republi can National Convention in 1888, and has been prominent in many ways in the politics of the State. Judge Strang is a young man, and is an excellent lawyer, as the records of his court when district judge will confirm. From the moment of his arrival in Kansas he took a prominent position; his talents for the in

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tricacies of local politics, coupled with his legal abilities and oratorical powers, al though he is not an eloquent but an effective speaker, brought him rapidly " to the front." Hon. George S. Green, Junior Commis sioner by date of appointment, was born a short distance east of Kenton, Hardin County, Ohio, on the 16th of December, 1845. He was a farmer's boy until his twelfth year, doing such work on the paternal homestead as his strength permitted. At the age'of twelve he was sent to the Bellefontaine High School in Logan County, where he picked up much knowledge, studied hard as long as he attended, and then served an apprenticeship at harness-making in the village of East Liberty in the same county. At the inauguration of the Civil War, imbued with that spirit of patriotism char acteristic of the American youth every where, he enlisted in Company C of the Fifteenth Ohio Infantry, commanded by Colonel John M. Connell, of Lancaster, on the 25th of August, 1861; on the 1st of Oc tober of the same year, crossed the Ohio River into Kentucky, and participated in the battles of Wild Cat on the 21st, Mill Springs on the 19th of January, 1862, Shiloh in April, and the siege of Corinth. His regiment then marched with General Buel's army to East Tennessee through Northern Alabama, and from thence back by way of Nashville to Louisville. He also was in action at the battle of Perryville on the 8th of October, and Stone River on the 31st of December. He was with Rosecrans in Chickamauga, on the 19th and 20th of September, and under General Thomas at the storming of Missionary Ridge on the 25 th of November, 1863. In January, 1864, Judge Green re-enlisted as a veteran in the same company and reg iment. He was with his command .with Sherman from Ringold, Georgia, and par ticipated in all the engagements during the memorable Atlanta campaign, culminating at Jonesborough in September. He was on the famous march " To the sea," and in Jan