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 A Sketch of the Supreme Court of Ohio.

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experience herein outlined been of service field of legal contest, and having returned to to the judge in the preparation of judicial Warren, where he was admitted to the bar opinions. Says one distinguished in the of Ohio, he at once became a member of craft : " Heme has uttered a sneer at the the firm of Cox & Ratliff. Later he was husk and shell of learning, but the best associated in practice with Hon. John C. bread is made from the whole meal, and in Hutchins, now of the Court of Common cludes the 'shorts' and the 'middlings' as Pleas of Cuyahoga County. In 1871 he well as the fine flour. If every lawyer, was elected prosecuting attorney for Trum physician, and clergyman were to spend six bull County, serving two terms, and then

months at the ' case ' solicitor of his native before entering upon city for two terms; his profession, he and for several years would find, even in he was engaged in the practice with C. that short term of A. Harrington, Esq., labor, a useful and fitting preparation for the firm enjoying a such literary tasks as lucrative business. may afterwards de Soon after laying volve upon him." down the duties of The young printer those minorpositions, appreciated his call Mr. Spear was elected ing, but growingtired judge of the Court of the confinement of of Common Pleas, the printing office, the duties of which and having imbibed office he entered up an ambition for the on in 1878. He was law, he returned to re-elected at the ex piration of his first Warren, and at once began to learn some term, but did not thing of the practical complete the second side of the profession term, because of his of his choice, by ser election to the Su vice as deputy clerk John a SHAUCK. preme Court, which occurred in 1885. of the Probate and Common Pleas Courts of Trumbull County. He has since been twice elected judge of He served in these capacities for several the latter court. years, devoting his spare hours, in the Thaddeus A. Minshall, a present mean time, to the study of the law un member of the Supreme Court of Ohio, is a der the direction of Hon. Jacob D. Cox, native of Ohio, born in Ross County, June since Governor of Ohio, but then of the 19, 1834. His educational training began Trumbull County Bar, now Dean of the in the country schools, and rounded up by Cincinnati Law School, and father of many attending Mt. Pleasant Academy, in his na lawyers. This preparation was followed by tive county. His legal education was ob a course in Harvard Law School, where tained in the office of S. L. Wallace of ChilMr. Spear was graduated in 1859. Being licothe, being admitted to the bar in 1861. thus equipped by reason of his practical and He served in the War of Rebellion with dis theoretical training, and ready to enter the tinction, at the close of which he began the