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vacancy caused by the resignation of Judge the Legislature by the free-soil party in Ranney, and held under that appointment 1849, and voted for Salmon P. Chase for until the term for which he had been elected United States senator. He also voted for began. Twice re-elected, he continued on Benjamin F. Wade for senator later on. the bench until the 9th of February, 1872, He supported Horace Greeley for President when he declined a re-election. Before in 1872. He was elected a judge of the leaving the bench he returned to Bucyrus Supreme Court in 1858, serving five years, the last year of his term as Chief Justice. and again took up his home there, and re sumed practice until 1876, when Governor His record as a judge is a good one. Com Hayes appointed him a member of the Su ing to the bar at an early day in the preme Court Commission; on the expiration history of the country, he advanced with of the Commission in February, 1879, he firm and steady progress to the front. again went back to his practice, but died on William V. Peck was one of the judges the 15th of June, 1879, after having reached of the Supreme Court of Ohio from Feb the age of seventy-six years. ruary 9, 1859, to February 9, 1864. Ac Judge Scott did not neglect the pursuit cording to the rule of that Court he was of learning outside of his profession, being Chief Justice during the year ending Febru a student of English literature, a fine Latin ary 9, 1864. His decisions are contained and Greek scholar, Horace and Demosthe in Volumes 8 to 14 inclusive of the Ohio nes being his favorite authors. He was a State Reports, during which period many very skillful cross-examiner; he would lead questions of great importance were con a witness on until he had gotten the truth sidered and determined by the Court. It was the period which covered the momentous from the most stubborn of them. In argu ment to the court Judge Scott was full events just preceding the outbreak of the of logic, and could nearly always convince. war, and during the first three years of its His opinions will be found in the Ohio State progress. He declined a renomination on Reports, from volume five to volume twenty- account of ill health. He was for many one inclusive, and in the scries containing years severely afflicted with bronchitis, which the decisions of the Commission, and rank prevented him from again engaging in ac with the very best. He left an impression tive practice after leaving the bench. upon the jurisprudence of Ohio which will Judge Peck was a bright scholar, and had never be erased, and his opinions are both the advantage of a splendid legal education, instructive and sound. which he received at a law school maintained at Litchfield, Connecticut, when he was a Milton Sutliff was born in Trum bull County, Ohio, October 6, 1806; was young man residing there. Judge Gould, the son of Samuel Sutliff, a farmer, and a who is the author of Gould's Pleading, was soldier in the Revolutionary War. Of a in charge of the law school, and from him family of six sons, four of them became Judge Peck derived his legal instruction. lawyers of note. Milton graduated from His family have now in their possession the Western Reserve College in the class Gould's law lectures, as delivered by him to of 1834. He was an Abolitionist, and very the students of the law school, and which have never been printed, the lectures com active in behalf of his party. Was a mem ber of the National Anti-Slavery Society, posing six volumes transcribed by Judge formed in Philadelphia in 1833, and took a Peck in his own handwriting, and are re prominent part in its deliberations. He was markably elegant specimens of his penman admitted to the bar in 1834, and began ship. The handwriting is as easily read as practice at Warren, Ohio. Was elected to print, and is in marked contrast with the or-