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I ever appeared before." Judge Nicholas's plan for electing the president of the United States received the approval of the best in tellects of the country. General William Preston, on account of his handsome person and courtly manners, was called " the last of the Cavaliers." He achieved distinction as a lawyer, orator, diplomat and soldier. Judge Logan was a man of deep learning. A gentleman once said: " Judge Logan is too profound to be agreeable." He had a habit of discussing the most complicated cases, that were sub mitted to him to de cide as chancellor of the chancery court, with Washington Spradling, a popular negro barber, who shaved him. Some friend who heard him asked him why he wasted his time ex plaining the compli cated chancery cases to Washington. He replied, tryingto state BLAND them plainly enough for the negro to un derstand helped him to see them more clearly himself. His son-in-law, Thomas W. Bullitt, is one of the leading lawyers of Louisville. He has been engaged in many of the most important cases in the Kentucky courts since the war. He has associated with him, Charles H. Sheild, a clever Vir ginian, who has taken high rank at the Louisville bar. Henry Pirtle was a most distinguished lawyer. Col. Durrett says : " He read ' Coke on Littleton ' and other heavy tomes as if they had been novels or poems. There was

no judge in the State whose decisions were more just and learned." His son, Judge James Speed Pirtle, named for AttorneyGeneral James Speed, is one of the most prominent lawyers now at the Louisville bar, and " has never suffered the lustre of his father's achievements to be dimmed in his hands." Edward S. Worthington and R. T. Durrett composed a law firm in 1850. Col. Dur rett is the founder of the Filson Club, and one of the best-loved men in Louisville. Judge Thomas A.

Marshall was an illus trious lawyer and ^0ЬМ

judge. In private his ?•• life was as pure and lovely as his talents and acquirements were distinguished. He was a member of Congress and judge of the court of ap peals, most of the time as its chief jus tice, for twenty-one years. Judge Bland Ballard began to prac «ALLAKD tice law in 1840. His vigorous mind and professional zeal soon gave him prominence. Appointed by President -Lincoln judge of the United States district court, he took his place on the bench in 1861, just as the flames of war were lighted. His position as judge of the Federal court in Kentucky made him many enemies. He was devoted to the preservation of the Union. AssociateJustice Field of the Supreme Court said: "As judge in Kentucky, Bland Ballard was worth twenty thousand men to the Union cause." Yet so absolutely just was his administration that, although he died only