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pacity until the outbreak of the civil war. He prepared ten volumes of the reports of that court and a digest of the decisions of the appellate courts from the date of the ad mission of the State into the Unionuntil 1870. These works are monuments to his learning in the law. He was a member of the con vention which adopted the ordinance of se cession and signed that memorable document. He was captain of the twentieth regiment of

Mississippi volun teers and was pro moted, successively, to the offices of col onel and brigadiergeneral in the Con federate service. He was chairman of the Democratic execu tive committee of his- State in 1875-6. In 1879, he was ap pointed to the su preme bench and made chief justice. In February, 1881, he resigned his seat on the bench to take the place to which he was elected in the United States Senate. He was re elected in 1886, and again in 1892 and SAMUEL H. declined reelection in 1896. He was the leader in the Constitutional Convention of 1890. In all these relations, with his strong arm and great brain and sympathetic heart, he wrought much for the cause of liberty and good government. His career is a part of the history of the country. He died, honored and lamented, on the four teenth day of August, 1897. Tim E. Cooper was born July 5, 1843, in Copiah county, Mississippi. He entered the University of North Carolina at Chapel

Hill, but his studies were interrupted by the call to arms, and, at the age of seventeen, he enlisted in the Confederate service, and was a gallant soldier throughout the war. At its close, he studied law in the office of Judge Yerger, and later, with Messrs. King and Mayes, at Gallatin, and was admitted to the bar at the latter place in 1866. He sub sequently removed to Crystal Springs and there prosecuted his profession with success until 1872, when he removed to Hazelhurst and there likewise acquired a large and lucrative practice. He was appointed to the supreme bench in 1 88 1, to succeed Chief Justice George. In [896. he resigned his place, and removed to Memphis, where he is now engaged in the practice of his profession. James M. Arnold was an able member of the Columbus bar. He served on the circuit bench for a number of years with eminent sat TERRII.L. isfaction. He was promoted to the supreme bench in 1885, and served there with ability and impartiality until 1889, when he resigned his place to resume the practice of his profession. Justice Arnold was a man of much learning and many accom plishments. After leaving the bench he settled in Birmingham, Alabama, and con tinued in practice until his death in 1898. Thomas H. Woods was born in Glasgow, Kentucky, in 1838. In 1848 his father, the Rev. Henry Woods, removed with his