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teem and warm regard in which, during an acquaintance of nearly forty years, I have always held your father, my high esteem of his clear head and professional ability, and my great admiration of his personal char acter." Four out of Mr. Winslow's five sons are lawyers. Three of them at Carrollton, the eldest, Henry M. Winslow, is the leading lawyer of the present Carroll County bar. The fourth son, his namesake, William Bev erly Winslow, is a talented lawyer and a member of a prominent New York legal firm, Russell, Robinson and Winslow. A re cent able brief prepared by him and used in a case tried in the United States circuit court of eastern Tennessee, to prove the solvency of the Knoxville Building and Loan Association and prevent the appointment of a receiver, was widely commented upon and resulted in the property being turned back to the management selected by the majority of the stockholders. It is a notable fact that Mr. William Beverly Winslow, Sr., was buried in a cemetery which joined the lot on which he was born, though in a different town and county, the name of the town having been changed and the county created in the mean time.

distinguished as one of the best read, ablest and most conscientious lawyers of his day. He was a pupil of his uncle's, Chief-Justice Marshall, and for some time lived with him in Virginia. His grandson, Anson Maltby, is a prominent member of the New York bar and is a son-in-law of that splendid Kentucky lawyer, statesman and soldier, General John C. Breckinridge. William Henry Wadsworth was one of the greatest lawyers in Kentucky. He was a second cousin of Henry Wadsworth Long fellow, and had much of his romantic, poet ical nature. His beautiful home, above Maysville, on the river, was called " Buffalo Trace." General Wadsworth was a courtly, elegant gentleman, a great student and a charming conversationalist. He was four times a member of Congress, and General Grant offered to appoint him minister to Mexico, but he declined. He had a beauti ful garden and was devoted to flowers. His charming home dispensed a wide hospitality, and especially on Sunday afternoon were all the prominent men in the neighborhood to be found there. Richard H. Stanton was an able lawyer and writer. He was the father of Henry M. Stanton, the poet, and author of " The Moneyless Man."

MAYSVILLE.

Many are the lawyers' names that are in scribed upon the roll of Mason County's •greatness, and those of Judge Adam Beatty, Judge Walker Reid, Judge Lorin Andrews, William Henry Wadsworth, Judge John Coburn, Martin P. Marshall, Harrison Tay lor, Richard H. Stanton, Judge E. C. Phister and John D. Taylor are among the most noted. Harrison Taylor was an indefatigable and untiring worker. " He was a big-hearted man," said one who knew him well, " too generous to be rich, and died universally regreted and respected." Martin P. Marshall was one of the braini est men Kentucky has ever known. He was

CYNTHIANA.

Cynthiana was named for two women, Cynthia and Anna Harrison, daughters of Robert Harrison, who laid out the town. It is in Harrison County, a very beautiful and fertile part of the State, and a number of its bar have been prominent men. Andrew Harrison Ward, the Nestor of the Cynthiana bar, is eighty-two years old and has been an active practitioner at the bar for fifty-two years. He never had a client hung, and the longest term in the penitentiary ever given one of them was ten years. He deprecated the Civil War, was op posed to secession. He said, "This country is the grandest on earth and none too large