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California, he went to the islands in earlylife, and was educated at Oahu College, Hon olulu, at Yale, and at Yale Law School. He taught Greek, mathematics, and political economy at Oahu College for two years, and entered judicial life in 1893 as a circuit judge of Hawaii.

William R. Harr of the District of Columbia has been appointed Assistant AttorneyGeneral of the United States, to succeed Alford W. Cooley, whose appointment as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of New Mexico was confirmed by the Senate June 2.

Judge Ignatius C. Grubb retired from the state bench of Delaware June 12, after twenty-three years' service. He has had a distinguished and active career, holding many public offices in Delaware, and per forming arduous duties in the constitutional convention of 1897. In 1893, he declined the office of Chief Justice, and in 1895, that of Chancellor. In length of service he is the dean of the Delaware bench.

Judge David W. Doom, one of the foremost lawyers of Austin, Texas, died there May 24. He was born in 1848, served in the Confed erate army, and acted as special district judge and special judge of the appellate courts on several occasions, and handled a large amount of land litigation.

The Senate has confirmed the appoint ments of the following to be United States District Judges: Edward E. Cushman to be District Judge for the third division of Alaska, William I. Grubb for the northern district of Alaska, Charles A. Willard for the district of Minnesota, and A. W. Cooley for the district of New Mexico. The appointments of Ernest W. Lewis and Edward M. Doe to the Arizona Supreme Court bench have also been con firmed.

Personal— The Bar William Curtis Gulliver, Yale '70, a prom inent New York lawyer, died May 25 at his home at 8 East 56th street. John B. Morrill of Gilford, N. H., a former member of the Legislature, and a member of the constitutional convention in 1889, has been appointed Judge of Probate of Belknap County, N. H. W. W. Fuller of New York, general counsel for the American Tobacco Company, and for merly a student of the University of Vir ginia, has given $10,000 to the law library of that institution. Francis M. Fogarty has been appointed Clerk of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals at Boston. He has been first as sistant clerk for the past four years, and is twenty-eight years of age. J. Herbert Denton, K.C., of Toronto, J. McKay, K.C., of Sault Ste. Marie, G. M. Rogers, K.C., of Peterborough, and C. Russell Fitch, K.C., of Toronto, have been appointed to the county bench of Ontario.

President Taft has appointed William Williams, a practising attorney of New York, to succeed Robert Watchorn as Commissioner of Immigration at that port. Mr. Watchorn was a graduate of Yale in 1884, and was Im migration Commissioner for two years during the Roosevelt administration. Mr. Frederick W. Lehmann, president of the American Bar Association, has been ten dered by Governor Hadley the position of Judge of the St. Louis Circuit Court of Mis souri, to succeed Judge Matt. G. Reynolds, on the latter's retirement, but has stated that owing to his business relations he can not accept the honor. The fiftieth anniversary of the admission to the Vermont bar of Gilbert A. Davis was celebrated at Woodstock, Vt., June 1, by about fifty of his friends, including prom inent lawyers and judges. Mr. Davis has been assistant clerk of the Vermont House of Representatives, Register of Probate, state senator and State's Attorney. State's Attorney Hugh M. Alcorn on June 7 announced the appointment of Theodore G. Case of Hartford, Conn., as Assistant State's Attorney, beginning his duties July 1. Mr. Case is about thirty-four years of age, and is a brother of Superior Court Judge William S. Case of Hartford. He is a grad uate of. Trinity College, and studied at the Yale Law School. Mr. Charles F. D. Belden, who is a member of the New York bar, has been appointed librarian of the State Library of Massachusetts It is expected that he will make the State Library invaluable to the Legislature, be cause of the particularly appropriate expe rience he has had not only as librarian of the Boston Social Law Library but in that of the Harvard Law School. George Donworth, a prominent lawyer of Seattle, was sworn in as United States Dis trict Judge for the western district of Washing