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Jonathan Ross, present Chief Judge, after graduating at Dartmouth, studied law with William Hebard, of Chelsea, and lo cated in St. Johnsbury. He was elected judge in 1870, and Chief Judge in 1890, upon the retirement of Judge Royce. H. Henry Powers, of Morristown, graduated at the University of Vermont, in 1855; was admitted to the Bar and resided for a time in Hyde Park, afterwards returning to his native place, where he now resides. He represented both towns in the General Assembly, was State attorney for the county, member of the Council of Censors in 1869 and of the Constitutional Convention in 1870; was in the Senate in 1872; in 1874 was Speaker of the House, and at that session was elected judge, and continued in office until 1890, when he was elected member of Congress from the first district, was re-elected and is now in ser vice. Mr. Powers, by his service upon the Bench, has demonstrated the fact that an astute politician may possess excellent judi cial qualities; he has the reputation of hav ing been a good judge, and of being a good politician. He is not like the musical lawyer whose friend, when inquired of as to what the former's business was, replied that the lawyers said he was a musician, but that the musicians called him a lawyer. WALTER C. Dunton, a native of Bristol, fitted for college at Franklin Academy, Malonc, N.Y., and graduated at Middlebury College in 1857. He read law with Mr. Dillingham at Waterbury, and Linsley and Prout at Rutland, and was admitted to the Bar at Rutland in 1858. He then resided for two years in Kansas, prior to its admission as a state, and was a member of the last territorial legislature. He re turned to Rutland in 1861, and was for a time partner with Mr. Prout and subse quently with Mr. Veazey. He was judge

of probate for the Rutland District for twelve years, and a member of the Constitutional Convention in 1870. In April, 1877, he was appointed by Gov. Fairbanks to fill the vacancy occasioned by the appointment of Judge Wheeler to the United States District judgeship. Judge Dunton resigned in October, 1879, on account of ill-health, and was succeeded by his former partner, Mr. Veazey. After his resignation, his health was to a great extent restored, he resumed practice, and for one year was professor in the law school at Iowa University. Judge Dunton and Judge Prout were both natives of Addison County; they were both born in November, and died the same year. Both of Mr. Dunton's partners, Prout and Veazey, were also judges. Wheelock Graves Veazey, of New Hampshire origin and education, graduat ing at Dartmouth College, studied law at the Albany Law School and opened an office in Springfield, this State. At the beginning of the Civil War, he enlisted as a private in Company A, but left the regi ment as lieutenant-colonel and was made colonel of the Sixteenth Vermont Regiment; he led the latter at Gettysburg, where he performed brilliant and distinguished ser vice. Since the war, he has been at the head of the Grand Army of the Republic and is a distinguished member of that or ganization. After the war, he settled in Rutland; was reporter of the' decisions of the court from 1864 to 1872; was State senator in the latter year; for several years served as reg ister in bankruptcy, and when his former partner. Judge Dunton, retired in 1879, Veazey was appointed in his place and remained a member of the court until his appointment as one of the Interstate Com merce Commissioners in September, 1889. He is now serving as such commissioner The last judicial act of Judge Veazey was