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 THE GREEN BAG istic serenity, and in the very moment of extremest peril, when the relentless waters closed over the sinking ship, he was still loyal to all the impulses of a brave and noble nature." Young Wheeler was educated at the Albany Academy and Union College, which he entered as a Junior. His health broke down in 1851, and he was obliged to leave college and travel abroad, which he did until 1853, when he returned from Europe and entered the Albany Law School, from which he was graduated. In 1854, he went into partnership with his father and Lyman Tremain in Albany, where he took high standing in his profession and became a leader of the Junior Bar. In 1855, Mr. Peckham married Miss Annie A. Keasbey of Newark, New Jersey, who survives him. He continued the practice of law in Albany until 1856, when he was again attacked with a hemorrhage of the lungs and was compelled to give up practice, and travel. He went a second time to Europe accompanied by his wife and brother, where he remained a little over a year. On returning he went West, and finally settled in St. Paul, Minn., where for five years he practiced his profession, and became one of the leading lawyers of that section. Mr. Peckham loved, in later years, to recount his experiences at the Western Bar, where he engaged in general practice in the State and Federal courts, and received a thorough training in criminal law, which he there practiced quite extensively, as was usual with the leading lawyers of that day. Having regained his health in the dry climate of the Northwest, Mr. Peckham returned to New York City in 1864, and entered the law firm which then became Miller, Stautenburg and Peckham, after wards Miller, Peckham and Dickson, and finally, Peckham, Miller and King, so con tinuing until his death. Mr. Peckham's fame as a la-wyer rested upon the surest foundations, built up as it was out of the solid masonry of professional

achievements, unaided by any attempts to bring himself into prominence. He was singularly modest and unostentatious. Few of his great compeers at the Bar had had so wide and varied an experience as he. His native talents had not been confined in practice to any particular department of law, but had ranged over the whole field. He was equally versed in constitutional law, the law of real estate, and trust, corpora tion, commercial, and criminal law, and occasionally appeared in important patent cases. His argument before the United States Supreme Court in the Bell Telephone Cases, reported in 126 U. S., is a model of clearness and force, and displays his famil iarity with that branch of the law which is so generally relegated to the specialist. In all of these fields, and many others, he achieved brilliant success and established precedents that are landmarks in the law. Mr. Peckham frequently appeared before the United States Supreme Court. The last case which he argued there was the case of South Dakota v. North Carolina (192 U. S. 290) in which he successfully maintained his contention that the original jurisdiction of the Federal Supreme Court under the United States Constitution (Art. 3, Sec. 2) over controversies between two or more states, extended to a suit by the state of South Dakota as the donee of bonds issued by the state of North Carolina and secured by mortgage of a railroad belonging to that State, to compel the payment of such bonds and subject the mortgaged property to the payment of the debt. He also, at an earlier day, argued the cele brated case of New Hampshire v. Louisiana (108 U. S.) where a similar constitutional question respecting interstate controver sies arose. For many years Mr. Peckham was the counsel of the Union Trust Company of New York. He reorganized it after its temporary suspension in 1873, and continued its counsel down to the time of his death. During that period he saw its stock increase in value from