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Judge Bullitt at the outset of the war had been an ardent Union man, but like many southern born patriots, his sentiments changed when the schemes of subjugation and emancipation and arming the negroes came to the surface as " war measures." For this he was proscribed by military power and in effect banished from his native land.

When the passions of the war subsided, he returned to his home in Louisville and resumed the practice of law. In 1871 he was made one of the commis sioners to revise the Codes of Practice of the State. He has at great labor edited and annotated two editions of the Codes, and for years he was regarded as the best versed lawyer in Kentucky in matters of practice. H e died at his home near Louisville, in Febru ary, 1898. Judge Bullitt came of a family that has long been distin JOSHUA F. guished in the annals of Kentucky. He was born on February 22, 1822. In the paternal line, he was descended from Capt. Thomas Bullitt, who in 1773, first surveyed a town site where Louisville now stands. On his mother's side he was the grandson of Joshua Fry, one of the earliest citizens of Kentucky, the teacher of Chief Justice Rob ertson and many other distinguished men of his day. Judge Bullitt was educated at Center College, in Danville, Kentucky, and at the University of Virginia.

WILLIAM SAMPSON.

After the removal of Chief Justice Bullitt from office, Governor Bramlette on June 5. 1865, appointed his personal friend, William Sampson, to fill the vacancy until an elec tion could be held. At the ensuing election he was chosen by a close vote to fill out the remainder of Judge Bullitt 's unexpired term. His views on the political questions of the day prevented him from becoming popular in the State. He was an able lawyer who had carved out his own destiny and had well qualified himself for the duties of his trying position. He did not live long enough to prove the full measure of his ability as a Judge. His health began to break down soon af ter he went on the bench and he was compelled to leave Frankfort for his home in Glasgow, Kentucky, where he died on February 5, 1866. Upon his death, ex-Chief Justice BULLITT. Thomas A. Marshall was named to suc ceed him and thus for the third time he came to preside over the highest court of the State. BELVARD J. PETERS.

In August, 1860, Belvard J. Peters, then fifty-five years of age was elected Judge of the. Court of Appeals of Kentucky. He served a full term of eight years and was elected for a second full term. When his last term expired in August, 1876, he de clined to stand for re-election, and having passed beyond the allotted three score years