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his fitness for his calling, he applied him self with a courage and confidence that never wavered, and an industry that never flagged, to the conscientious discharge of his judicial duties. He may be said to have had a genius for judicial insight and dis crimination, and his ruling passion was the search for and the dispensation of reme dial justice. Retiring from active service at 80 years of age, he spent the remaining year of his life in the quiet enjoyment of his own home in Cooperstown, where he received and welcomed with generous hospitality his

numerous friends and admirers from all sections of the country. During this period he was the recipient of testimonials from the bench and bar of his native state, as well as from the Federal Circuit, in which he had presided, and the Supreme Court, of which he was so long a member, all unit ing in the highest encomiums upon his judi cial life and labors — encomiums which may well be regarded as trustworthy indications of the final verdict of posterity concerning his career and character. His death occurred in 1873. Albany, N. Y.. February, 1907.