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leaders of the Vermont Bar. Without any of in which he had acquitted himself, and the graces of oratory, his manner of speech pointed him out as an example of thorough was direct, pointed and concise; in his low training. tone of voice he would state to the Court, He was a fluent French scholar, and read when about to speak upon the most impor civil law in Sherbrooke, Quebec. He soon tant questions, that he desired about thirty located in Derby, and although called " the minutes time, and he seldom exceeded it. boy lawyer," took high rank among the Upon the declination of Judge Loyal C. ablest and most experienced, and after six Kellogg to continue longer upon the Bench,

years' practice was he was elected and appointed judge, served two years. He when Judge Poland declined further ser resigned to accept a vice. He was in seat in the United comfortable circum stances, his income States Senate. from his profession In court, he pre was great, and he was sided with great ease disinclined to make and dignity, and was the usual journeys very patient in his about the State, most investigations. He of which came in the disposed of questions winter months. He with promptness, care was as well fitted for and accuracy. His the discharge of the opinions were finely duties of a judge in written, the result of the Supreme Court his education, his lit as any one probably erary taste, and ac who ever occupied curacy of expression. the position. He was The settlement of not as gifted in county the large estate of his courts. His voice was wife's father demand low, and at times he ing his attention, he JONATHAN ROSS. could with great diffi resigned his judge culty be heard by ship after five years' those present. After his instructions to a jury service. in one case, the noted David E. Nicholson, JOHN Prout was of Addison County counsel, said that he could take no excep origin, practicing until 1854 in Salisbury. tions to Judge Prout's charge, upon the He then removed to Rutland, and continued ground that the jury would probably be there until his death. He was one of the misled by it, for they hadn't heard a word most studious of men, studying law and but that he said. little else. During the latter part of his life, he purchased substantially all the text-books Hoyt H. Wheeler, United States judge issued, especially everything of a new kind or in the Vermont District, is so well known upon new subjects. He was counsel for the that little need be said of him. He was great corporations in his vicinity, and at the born in Chesterfield, N.H., and when young time of his death was regarded as one of the his father removed to Newfane, Vt. He