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judicial office vacant. The judges had in the bar. In 18 10 he was elected by the 1809 been reduced to four, but the Legis legislature, judge of the Supreme Court, lature reduced it to three. This cut Morris which office he held for eight years. out, who never presided in the Supreme In 18 18 he was chosen Governor of Ohio, Court, and the only official act he ever and in 1821 elected to the United States performed was to administer the oath of Senate. In 1830 President Jackson ap office to Sheriff Lindsey. He was the son pointed him minister to Brazil, from which of Isaac Morris, a Baptist preacher, and position he retired in 1834. After twenty was admitted to the bar in 1804, and was years of distinguished public service he

one of the most dis sought repose in his bachelor home at tinguished and ablest lawyers in Ohio. He Cincinnati. But Pres represented the State ident Jackson urged him to accept the in the Senate of the United States, where commissioner gener alship of the Land he sat in ability and Office, which he did, power among the and after two years' highest men in that service retired. He great body. Judge Thurman once said died Feb. 24, 1852, that the time was in Indianapolis, Ind., after a long and use when Judge Morris ful career. His was one of the first lawyers of all the picture appears in the March number western territory. of this magazine. W1ll1am W. IrVIN was appointed to Judge Calv1n T Pease was born at the Supreme Court Suffield, Hartford on the tenth day of February, 18 10, County, Connecticut, with Thomas Scott Sept. 9, 1776. His education was and Ethan Allen Brown, but no traces meagre, being only WILLIAM Y. GHOLSON, such as the common of his life seem to schools of his day be left. Ethan Allen Brown was born July 4, furnished. He read law in the office of 1766, in the State of Connecticut. Before Gideon Granger, his brother-in-law. Was coming to the western country he received admitted to the bar in Hartford County, all the educational advantages obtainable, Connecticut, in 1798, and began practice in and was a student of Alexander Hamilton New Hartford, where he remained only two when he was at the height of his celebrity years, removing to Ohio in 1800, settling as a lawyer, orator and statesman. He was at Youngstown. Was appointed the first admitted to the bar in 1802 at the age of postmaster of that town. He moved to Warren in 1803. Was admitted to practice thirty-six years. by the General Court of the Territory at In 1804 he took up his residence at Cin cinnati, where he entered the practice of his Marietta in October, 1800. The County of profession, taking a very high position at Trumbull was organized July 10, 1800, by