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his fellows, and bearing a sovereign air. Carroll (then Gallatin) County circuit court He never had his superior for satire and for thirty-three years. Mr. Winslow was a thorough business man. He was president of invective." Judge James Paxton Harbeson and W. the Carrollton branch of the Southern Bank G. Deering are among the leaders of the of Kentucky and trustee of the Carroll Flemingsburg bar. Judge Harbeson was a County Academy. His ability and the wellbrave soldier in the Federal army. He was known integrity of his character won him elected county judge without opposition, in not only his high position at the bar but 1 890, and is a brilliant man and a courteous the respect and admiration of all. He was

a devoted member of gentleman. the Southern Metho Judge Peters of dist Church. It is Mt. Sterling was a said " he had four judge of the court of ' hobbies,' his church, appeals for sixteen his home, his profes years, and Judge sion and his garden, Richard A p perso n or 'truck patch,' as he was one of the lead called it, and he never ing members of the neglected any one of bar in central Ken the four." His thor tucky, and a man oughness and atten widely beloved. tion to details in his The present gover professional life is nor of Kentucky, Wil said to have been mar liam A. Bradley, has velous. A brother long been regarded lawyer, Judge Nuttall, as one of the ablest was in the habit of members of the cen jokingly telling, at his tral Kentucky bar, expense, that so great and his father, Robert was his thoroughness, M. Bradley, was a that on one occasion fine lawyer. in a case he proved J. N.' Cardwell of GEN. W. 11. WADSWORTH. a man dead and not Winchester is the satisfied with that-, brother-in-law of the present mayor of Louisville, George D.Todd. went on to prove he was still dead. He was very fond of gardening, delighted in see At seventeen he was a soldier in the Mexi can War, and served with distinction on the ing things grow, and prided himself on having Union side in the Civil War. His profes the earliest vegetables in the county. In sional rank is indicated by the magnitude of the gardening season he was in the habit of the cases in which he is employed. He is rising at daylight and working two or three skillful and successful in argument, and at hours before breakfast. He was a schoolthe same time courteous, good-natured and 'mate of the late Norvin Green, President of the Western Union Telegraph Company. self-possessed. William Beverly Winslow of Carrollton In writing to a son of Mr. Winslow's, Dr. Green said, " I cannot close this long and was the most prominent lawyer in his sec strictly business letter in justice to my feel tion of the State. ings without some expression of the high es His father was a lawyer and clerk of the