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Jacob P. Solomon, founder and editorjof the Hebrew Standard, who diedtMay 26 Jin New York, had practised law from 1865 until seven years ago. William H. Ely died at New Haven, Conn., May 26. He was graduated from Amherst College in 1877, and ranked with the best known and most popular lawyers of Con necticut. Major H. Frank Wilson, a prominent member of the Sumter, S. C., bar, a polished orator and gentleman, tragically shot himself May 18. He had been in ill health for sev eral years. Charles H. Reed, a prominent lawyer and Republican, died at Dufur, Ore., May 17. He had at one time practised law in Idaho, and had been prominent in Idaho as well as in Oregon politics. Robert O. Bascom, District Attorney of Washington County, New York, died at Fort Edward, N. Y., May 18. He was a prominent Republican, and was secretary of the New York State Historical Society. Francis A. Bolles, the oldest lawyer in practice in Bellows Falls, Vt., died May 23. A graduate of Tufts College in 1890, he be came a member of the Legislature, and was afterwards State's Attorney for Windham County. Smith L. Lindsley, president of the Oneida County Bar Association, died at his home in Utica, N. Y., May 17, after a long illness. He was admired and respected for his ability and integrity, which had won him success at the bar. Jonas Guilford, who in former years was counsel in much important litigation, died May 15 at Minneapolis. A native of Massa chusetts, he was graduated from Amherst College in 1864, and had resided in Minnea polis for forty-two years. Walter Alexander, a prominent graduate of Harvard, died in New York City May 21. When in college he stroked the 'Varsity crew of 1887, in which year he was graduated. He was a member of the Board of Education, and president of the Missouri Society. John H. Bird, formerly a prominent lawyer and clubman of New York City, died at Peekskill May 25 in his seventy-third year. In his prime he had been an enthusiastic yachtsman and amateur actor, and had also had charge of some important litigation.

Governor Stuart andTall the judges of the Supreme and Superior Courts of Pennsylvania attended the funeral services for Col. Alex ander K. McClure, the veteran journalist and prothonotary of the Supreme and Superior Courts, at Wallingford, Pa., June 10. John M. Poston, who was for years one of the most prominent lawyers in California, died May 12. Habits which he could not master had steadily driven him down to abject poverty from the position of one of the most skillful masters of pleading in the state. A memorial to Thomas G. Kent of Wor cester, Mass., was entered on the records of the Superior Court on June 3. Chief Justice Aiken and a number of lawyers spoke feel ingly of his high integrity and his marked ability. Mr. Kent was for years one of the leading lawyers of Worcester. Hugh H. Hamill, whose father had been head-master of Lawrenceville School, died in Trenton, N. J., May 14. He was grad uated from Princeton in 1871, admitted to the bar in 1874, and practised until 1890, when he became President of the Trenton Trust and Safe Deposit Company. The late Walter L. Granger stood high in the legal fraternity of Cincinnati. He was known as an indefatigable worker in lucrative practice until three years ago. To his habit of severe study in leisure hours is ascribed the chief cause of the failing health that com pelled him to give up active practice. iames M. Williams, well known in the tical and legal life of Cleveland, and former Lieutenant-Governor of Ohio, died in Cleveland May 22. He had been a member of the Legislature and was state senator for four terms, until a year ago. He had also done much work in the way of securing a revision and codification of the Ohio laws. Charles H. Burns, a prominent New Hamp shire lawyer, died at Wilton, N. H., May 22, at the age of seventy-four. He was a grad uate of the Harvard Law School, and served as state senator, and later as United States Attorney. For many years he was senior counsel for the Boston & Maine Railroad in southern New Hampshire. The memory of the late John G. Stetson, who died March 30, 1908, for many years Clerk of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals, has been honored by the Boston Bar Association, which has just adopted resolutions paying tribute to his excellent work and tine talents, a beautiful eulogy being delivered by Judge Colt.