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ernor and president of the common pleas of Pennsylvania. It is not strange, therefore, that he is one of the best lawyers at the Louisville bar. Edward F. Trabue is a fine pleader and a good lawyer. Judge Charles S. Grubbs was a judge in Logan County before he removed to Louis ville, where he has taken high rank at the bar. Randolph H. Blain is lawyer for the school board and is a man of sound judg ment. Three Louisville lawyers, under President Cleveland's administrations, ably represented this country abroad. Boyd Winchester, a brilliant man, was minister to Switzerland. Charles W. Buck was one of the youngest men ever selected for a diplomatic office so important when he went as minister to Peru. He acquitted himself with great good sense and discretion, and it was said, " No United States minister, since the days of Randolph Clay, in the fifties, made such a favorable impression." Albert S. Willis went as minister to Hawaii at a time of great difficulty. How well he performed his task is fresh in the minds of all. He died at his post deeply mourned. The judiciary of Louisville is equal to any in the country. Emmet Field, Reginald Thompson, L. M. Noble and I. W. Ed wards are men who are highly respected and who fill their positions with credit to themselves and honor to the city. Frank Parsons is the present able com monwealth's attorney. He is a brilliant member of a brilliant family. His brother, a very bright man, died while a member of Congress. John Young Brown, former governor of Kentucky, is now numbered among the Louisville lawyers. He is one of the finest speakers in the State and made a very able governor. He was elected to Congress while under the constitutional age, and has always occupied a conspicuous and honorable place among the first men of Kentucky.

The list of Louisville's good lawyers would not be complete without the names of John and J. C. Dodd, John C. Russell, Frank Hagan, Edward Humphrey, Garvín Bell, and Frank Swope. Among the younger members of the pro fession who give promise of worthily walking in the footsteps of those who have gone be fore are Oscar Turner, Arthur Peter, Swager Sherley, Ernest W. Sprague, George Burton and Theodore Snively. President Buchanan came to Kentucky to practice law, but soon left. Years after, he said : " I went to Kentucky expecting to be a great man there, but every lawyer I met at the bar was my equal, and more than half of them my superiors, so I left." SOUTHERN AND WESTERN KENTUCKY.

The list of lawyers of southern and west ern Kentucky includes the names of many men who have been and are eminent in the profession, and the equals of any lawyers in the country. John Calhoon, for whom the town of Calhoon was named, was a brilliant man. From Franklin came Beverly L. Clark, one of the finest lawyers in the State. Oscar Turner was one of the best lawyers of his day. His father was one of the most distin guished jurists of the South, and his mother, Caroline Sargent, was the daughter of Gov ernor Winthrop Sargent of Louisiana. Com ing to Ballard County, after his school days were over, Mr. Turner's fame as a lawyer soon spread. In 1851 he was the commonwealth's attorney, and it is said, " His vigorous pros ecutions and undaunted courage and ardor soon brought law and order in many locali ties of his district, which had known little of either before." He was equally at home in criminal and civil cases, and successfully held his own against the best legal talent of the State. In three congressional races he was vic torious against odds such as would have