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 The Legal World 16 at his home in Sandusky, O. Going .west in 1848 from Connecticut, he was prominent in Ohio politics for half a century and 'held various public offices. Judge William C. Hall, who died at Long Beach, Cal., May 7, was one of the most prominent lawyers of Salt Lake City. He fought in the Civil War on the Confederate side. He made a specialty of mining law, and was twice elected city attorney. Judge Edwin H. Wooley, a leading lawyer of Kansas City, Kan., and one of the oldest members of the Wyandotte County Bar Association, was stricken with paralysis May 13. He had formerly enjoyed a large prac tice in the highest courts of Nebraska. The memory of the late Judge William H. Donohue was honored by the Minneapolis bar May 15. Five judges who had been his colleagues on the bench presided, and voiced the sentiments of the profession in the pres ence of one hundred or more members of the Minneapolis bar. Former Judge William Waugh of Mercer County, Pa., died at Greenville, Pa., recently, being ninety-one years old. He was grad uated over seventy years ago from the law school of the Western University of Penn sylvania. He received the degree of LL.D. from the University of Pittsburgh last Feb ruary. The Bar Association of Fairfield County, Conn., paid an admiring tribute to the late Judge Charles A. Doten, who died May 15. Judge Doten held the offices of corporation counsel of Bridgeport, Judge of the City Court, and County Coroner, and was a wellinformed and faithful lawyer of honorable character. Walter L. Weaver died May 26 at Spring field, O., in his fifty-eighth year. He was educated at Wittenberg College, afterward studying law and engaging in newspaper work. He practised law, and then became a member of the Fifty-fifth and Fifty-sixth Congress, and in 1902 was appointed by Mr. Roosevelt Associate Justice of the Choctaw and Chicka saw citizenship court, in which capacity he served for three years. Judge William H. Hulsey, a progressive citizen of Atlanta, and a Confederate colonel in the Civil War, died May 17. He had served in the legislature of his state and as Ordinary of Fulton County for several terms. Judge Hulsey as Atlanta's "Boy Mayor" in 1869 displayed exceptional enterprise, and as a criminal lawyer he ranked with the most eloquent and successful in his part of the country.

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Justice Guy C. Scott of the Illinois Supreme Court died at Galesburg, Ill., May 24, after an operation for appendicitis. He was fortysix years old. For one year he served as Chief Justice. When he first went on the bench he was considered the best trial lawyer in Mercer County. His service on the bench was marked by incessantly studious and con scientious labor. Judge Henry Perry Henderson of Salt Lake City, Utah, died there June 3. He was born at Otisco, N. Y., and was sixty-five years of age. He had filled many minor offices, having been clerk of the Supreme Court of Michigan, county attorney for Ingham County, and Mayor of Mason. In 1886 he was appointed one of the Justices of the Supreme Court of Utah, later returning to his law practice. Judge Denis O'Brien, who retired from the New York Court of Appeals two years ago, died May 18, at his home in Watertown, N.Y. He had served as Mayor of Watertown in 1878, as Attorney-General from 1883 until 1887, and as Judge of the Court of Appeals from 1889 to 1907. He was the friend of Tilden and Cleveland. On the bench he served with conspicuous ability, rendering many important decisions, including that wherein the Alien Labor Wage Law was held unconstitutional. His decisions were char acterized by marked learning and independ ence. Necrology— The 'Bar W. H. Reece, a prominent lawyer of northern New York, died suddenly in Watertown May 26. Bryan L. Oliver, a prominent lawyer and Republican leader of Los Angeles, died in Mexico May 15. Major Horatio K. Tyler, a successful pen sion attorney and a prominent Civil War veteran, died at Pittsburgh June 7. Edward T. Lovett, a lawyer of Nyack, N. Y., died May 23. He was a member of the Westchester and Rockland County Bar Associations. Charles Gibbs Carter, who died May 14 in Pittsburgh, had been connected with many large suits, principally oil and gas cases. Erastus P. Jewell, a leader of the bar of Belknap County, N. H., died at Laconia, N. H., June 3, after an active and useful L. F. Fryer, a prominent and respected attorney of Fort Worth, Tex., was accidentally killed May 19 by a fall from the window of his office.