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uary, 1865, participated in the campaigns sylvania, Judge A. A. Harris of Fort Scott, through the Carolinas which ended with and Mr. Rossington of Topeka, in Quo the occupation of Raleigh. His regiment Warranto proceedings against the Union then marched with General Sherman to Pacific Railroad, to contest the consolida Washington, by way of Richmond, and was tion of that corporation with the Kansas in line at the Grand Review. From thence Pacific Railway, which celebrated case re his regiment was ordered to Louisville, sulted in a stipulation upon the part of the Ky., where it remained until July, when it Union Pacific, yielding substantially all that was sent to Camp Chase, Ohio, and mus the State of Kansas demanded. tered out by the provisions of a general Judge Green is a Mason of high standing, having served as Master of the Grand Lodge order. At the close of his continuous and gallant of Masons in 1883, and Grand High Priest, military service, young Green entered the in 1884, of the Grand Chapter of Kansas. Ohio State University, at Athens, where he Judge Green is a good lawyer, a careful remained until 1867, then emigrated to judge, a gentleman with all the inherent Kansas, and settled in the embryo town qualities which go to make up the honest of Manhattan. The following year he was man, and as a legislator was a power, — a "Hustler," to employ a Western phrase elected Justice of the Peace for his town ship, and two years later attorney of the which if not a particularly polite rendition of the meaning intended to be conveyed, is county. That year he formed a law part very expressive, and thoroughly understood nership with John E. Hessin, Esq., which re mained unbroken until the dissolution of the by the people of the great empire of which firm, in consequence of Mr. Green having Kansas is an integral part. been appointed one of the Supreme Court The story of the Supreme Court of Kan Commissioners, on the 1st of March, 1890. sas is not a long one; the period which has Judge Green has served two terms in the elapsed since the State's admission to the lower branch of the Legislature, with dis Union of great Commonwealths is too short tinction, as a member of the Judiciary Com to admit of extended necrological records mittee, of which he was its Chairman, and or a lengthy list of judges. The highest the Committee on Railroads. In 1884 he court of the State has an honorable record, was elected to the State Senate, where he and the people have been very wise in the served for four years as Chairman of the selection of those distinguished lawyers who Committee on Public Lands and on the have been called to preside over its deliber ations. Its " Opinions " will compare fa Judiciary Committee. Judge Green studied law under Judge vorably with those of any court in the older James Humphrey, of Junction, Kan., who States, and are recognized as authority was for a number of terms President of the wherever the law is applied, throughout the Board of Railroad Commissioners, and has country. As a confirmation of the youth of practised continuously ever since, to the the State's judicial history, it is only neces moment of his appointment to the Supreme sary to repeat that the court has had but Court. In 1883 he was employed by the five Chief-Justices, all living to-day, and State of Kansas to assist the Attorney- but one of them has reached the allotted General, Judge Jerry S. Black of Penn "threescore and ten."