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 The Court of Appeals of Kentucky. father was a man of wealth and the son was educated in Centre College, an institution of learning that has given many famous men to Kentucky and all the central and southern part of the country. He graduated in 1843, studied law and was admitted to the bar when twenty-one years of age. He represented his county in the State Legislature several times and when the Civil War broke out he was made Colonel of the Confederate Regiment in which Chief Justice Cofer served. In 1864 he was com missioned Brigadier General to succeed Gen. Roger Hanson in command of the brigade then and since known as the " Orphan's Brigade." This name was given to his com mand because of the fearful loss of life among officers and men which it sustained in many of the bloodiest battles of the war. Gen. Lewis's command of this famous brigade gave him a hold on the affections of his men that made his candidacy for an office equivalent to an election. He is a man of great firmness of character and an unfalter ing adherence to what he believes to be right. Hence his natural ambition led him to seek judicial preferment. In the highest court of the State he proved himself a jurist of high rank, whose opinions are worthy to be classed with those of the other eminent men who have sat in the court. JOHN M. ELLIOTT AND THOMAS F. HARGIS.

When Chief Justice Peters voluntarily retired from the Court of Appeals in August, 1876, John M. Elliott was chosen to succeed him. Judge Elliott entered upon the duties of his office and continued to discharge them with fidelity and with credit to himself and to the State until March 26, 1879, when he was shot clown in cold blood by an insane and disappointed litigant. The event shocked the civilized world, as it is said that modern history mentions but one parallel case—that of Sir George Lockhart, President of the Court of Sessions in

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Edinburgh, who was assassinated in like manner in 1689. The bar of the State and the Court of Appeals, at a meeting held April 8, 1879, adopted resolutions attesting "the integrity, dignity, impartiality, love of justice and strong common sense which marked his character as a judge and a man." At a special election called for May 1 2, 1879, Thomas F. Hargis, formerly associated in practice with Judge Elliott, was chosen to fill out his unexpired term. As a result of that election, Judge Hargis in August, 1882, became Chief Justice of the court for two years. Judge Hargis was born in Breathitt County, Kentucky, on June 24, 1842. He is emphatically a self made man. When the war between the States began, he joined the Confederate Army and served through out the war with credit. At its close he turned his attention to the law. He served his people in various capacities, as State Senator, as County Judge and as Circuit Judge prior to his election as Judge of the Court of Appeals. At the expiration of his term of office he removed with his family to Louisville, where he has ever since been engaged in the practice of law. THOMAS H. HIÑES.

Thomas Henry Hiñes was born in Butler County, Kentucky, on October 9, 1838, and he died in Frankfort, Kentucky, in January, 1898. His family is one of the oldest in the State and numbers many of its most prominent citizens in both public and pri vate life. His early training developed in him those strong qualities of self-reliance and that utter absence of fear which made him peculiarly fitted to be a leader of men. When a mere boy he became a professor in a college at La Grange, Kentucky, where he remained until the breaking out of the war, when he joined the Confederate Army. His gallantry and calm intrepid courage made him famous