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twice a year at Davenport, it was made a condition that it should be without cost to the state, a species of economy, by the way, which has nothing to recommend it. The better to accommodate the court and the bar, Judge Grant fitted up a room for the use of the court above his library, and set it apart for them for several years, neither receiving nor expect ing compensation. The judges and bar of the state cannot but feel how much they are indebted to him for access to a library which was until recently the only one in the state at all complete.

three of his wife's nephews and nieces, and two of his own; I made three. Within a year he had three more of his own and one of his wife's, and besides these he had three more of his own off at school, who some part of that time were at the house." All of these nephews

He was a great and a systematic worker. It was his habit to rise early, sometimes as early as four o'clock, and he was often found by members JUDGE GRANT'S LATER RESIDENCE IN DAVENPORT of his household delving into books by candle light. The wonder is that he and nieces were under age, and the had time to study so many things and eldest was seventeen. Judge Grant become thorough in them. It is surely had surely assumed a great task in under a great task for any man to master the taking to care for and educate these profession of law, but he became, as we children. He had, to be exact, twentyshall presently see, a master of railroad four nephews and nieces in the South, ing and mining and smelting also. He and his offer was to each and every one was not an experimenter in anything, of them that he would transplant them but he was a schooled and graduated at his own expense and provide for them expert in law, metallurgy and railroading. amply if they would emigrate to the One would think that his time was West. Twelve of them accepted his all devoted to work, but it was not so. offer. He was not a rich man at that Under the roof of his Davenport home, time, and his fortune did not exceed after the war, he had a household such seventy-five thousand dollars when he as has seldom been seen in this or any undertook this prodigious work of kin other country. The following account ship and humanity. He threw himself, of it was given by his nephew, Hon. however with his accustomed zeal and Whitaker M. Grant: "When I went to thoroughness into the duties of pater his house in 1868, the family consisted familias for all his nephews and nieces of himself and wife, his mother-in-law, who had accepted his offer to come to