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 The Court of Appeals of Kentucky. was Chief Justice of the court. When his term of office expired, he was not a candi date for reelection, but went abroad for a year in search of health. Upon his return he took up the practice of law before the Court of Appeals, where he appeared in many important cases up to the time of his death. WILLIAM H. HOLT.

William H. Holt was elected a Judge of the Court of Appeals in August, 1884, from the eastern district of the State, and he became Chief Justice for the last two years of his term, 1890-1892. He is a Republi can in politics and he was the first Republi can, after the Civil war, to sit in the court. He had not long been a member of the court when he showed himself free from partisanship and political bias. When his term expired, he had established a reputation for ability and integrity that led many law yers throughout the State, regardless of pol itics, to support him for reelection. The year 1892 was, however, a Democratic year, and he was defeated by the present Chief Justice, James H. Hazelrigg. The strength that Judge Holt developed against his able and popular antagonist is sufficient evidence of the esteem in which he was held by the voters of his district and by the bar of the State. Judge 'Holt was born in Bath County, Kentucky, on November 29, 1842. He graduated in law at the Albany Law School in May, 1863. In June, 1863, he commenced the practice in Mt. Sterling, Kentucky, and he soon took high rank at the bar. His career as a lawyer has been most successful. When he was defeated for reelection he continued to reside in Frankfort, where he is still engaged in the active work of his profession. He is retained in a large number of cases before the Court of Appeals—especially in those cases appealed from the eastern section of the State.

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CASWELL BENNETT.

Caswell Bennett, Judge of the Kentucky Court of Appeals from August, 1886, to his death on August 9, 1894, was born in Hali fax County, Virginia, on August 27, 1836. He received a liberal education and had as his preceptor in law Judge Joseph R. Under wood, already mentioned as a Judge of the Court of Appeals with Chief Justice Rob ertson. He was admitted to the bar in 1857 and he practiced with success until 1867, when he was elected Circuit Judge—an office which he held for twelve years. In 1878 he was a candidate for Judge of the Court of Appeals to succeed Judge Lindsay, but he was de feated by Judge Hiñes. At the expiration of Judge Hincs's term he again became a can didate, and this time he was elected. His term of office would have expired on January i, 1895, and he was the candidate of the Democratic party for reelection, with certain prospects of success, when his sudden and untimely death occurred. For two years he was Chief Justice of the court. His associates on the bench said of him, " As a man, he was upright, fearless, true to his convictions and impatient of wrong or injustice; as a friend he was loyal to a fault; as a lawyer, careful, wary and resource ful, and as a judge, patient, learned, indus trious?nd intrepid." I. M. QUIGLEY.

Upon the death of Chief Justice Bennett, Governor John Young Brown, on August 13, 1894, commissioned Isaac Moore Quigley of Paducah, Kentucky, to fill the vacancy. He at once qualified and in the discharge of his duties presided over the court a little more than three months. With such asso ciates as Judges Pryor, Lewis and Hazelrigg, Chief Justice Quigley had little opportunity in three months to prove his ability asa jurist. He was born on March 5, 1856, and be fore his elevation to the bench he had sig