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mitted to the bar October 22, 1849. In 1853, practice of his profession, with his son Clem while a clerk in the office of Secretary of ent R., who was admitted in 1888. Judge Gilmore has been a Trustee of State, he was appointed probate judge of his Miami University since 1871, and is one of native county, and was afterwards elected to the trustees for the State of the Ohio the same office. In 1856 he was elected Archeological and Historical Society. Was judge of the Court of Common Pleas, and president of Ohio State Bar Association was elected a second time to that office. He removed to Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1865, 1885-86, and delegate to American Bar As where he became associated with Hon.,W. Y. sociation in 1894. Washington Wallace Boynton was Gholson, and for nearly two years they labor born Jan. 27, 1833, in Lorain County, ed together in the preparation of the "Ohio Ohio. In his younger days, from the age Digest," which was one of the best digests of sixteen years until 1858, he employed his ever made in Ohio. Afterwards Judge time in teaching. He was admitted to the Okey and S. A. Miller prepared and had bar in 1856, commencing practice in 1858. published what is known as "Okey and He was appointed prosecuting attorney of Miller's Municipal Law," which work was Lorain County to fill a vacancy. In 1865 published in 1869. In 1875 he was, by he was elected to the lower house of the Governor William Allen, appointed, to gether with M. A. Daugherty and Judge Day, State Legislature. In 1869 he was ap pointed, by Governor Hayes, judge of the a member of what is known as the codify Court of Common Pleas, to fill a vacancy, ing commission to revise and codify the general laws of the State. In 1877 he was and in 1871 was elected to the same posi tion. He was elected judge of the Supreme elected a judge of the Supreme Court of Court in 1876, and retired in 188 1. After Ohio. On the resignation of Judge Boynton leaving the 'bench he located in Cleveland, in 188 1, Judge Okey became Chief Justice. where he is still extensively engaged in prac Nearly the whole of Judge Okey's life was given to judicial labors. While in the ac tice. John Waterman Okey was born in tive practice of his profession he was con Monroe County, Ohio, January 3, 1827, and sidered a strong and ready trial lawyer. If a was of English and Scotch-Irish parentage. long term on the Common Pleas bench and His grandfather, Leven Okey, came to Ohio a laborious course of study of general prin before it was a State, and when Monroe ciples are the things needed to fit a person County was organized he was elected one of to perform well the duties of a judge of the the judges. His father, Colonel Cornelius highest court in the State, then few men Okey, at one time represented Monroe have come better prepared to perform those County in the lower house of the General delicate and laborious duties than did Judge Assembly, Ohio; he was a man of ability Okey. He was familiar to an unprecedented and stood well with his people. He died degree not only with the Constitution of the in 1859, at the age of seventy-seven. Judge state, the legislation of the state, and the judicial decisions of the state, but with the Okey's great-grandmother reached the ex treme age of one hundred and three. Judge English, Irish and Scotch reports and Okey attended the Monroe Academy; he authors and with the multudinous reports also had private instruction from some able of our Federal and State courts and ele scholars; on the completion of his studies he mentary writers as well. His mind was became a deputy in the office of the county eminently judicial and logical in character, clerk of his county. He read law under ready to take in all of a case, analyze it, eliminate the immaterial and irrelevant, and Nathan Hollister, at Woodsfield, and was ad