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 The Legal World H. B. Miller, a lawyer of Nashville, Tenn., died September 17. He was well known throughout the state on account of his con nection with the legal department of the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway Company, and his former connection with the state comptroller's office. James J. Gray, a lawyer and Democratic politician, died at his home in Chicago, September 2. In recent years he had trans ferred his allegiance from the Democratic party to the Independence League. He was chair man of its county central committee and ran a strong race as candidate for sheriff. James A. Douglas, a practising attorney of New York City, died at the Hotel Cecil, London, England, on September 7. He was born in Delaware County, New York, fiftytwo years ago, and practised law for several years in Delhi. He was connected with the Law Reporting Company of New York.

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Joseph T. O'Neal, aged sixty-one years, who was one of the best-known attorneys of Louisville and Kentucky, died September 21 at Louisville. He was local attorney for the Louisville and Nashville railroad, and repre sented the Louisville and Eastern when it was first organized. He was born near Versailles, Woodford County, Ky., February 14, 1849. Albert Gimbacker of Ellsworth, Wis., one of the most prominent attorneys of the Pierce county bar, died September 18. He had been for several successive terms district attorney. He was born in Somerset, St. Croix County, Wis., and was fifty-two years of age. He studied law in the office of Senator Moses E. Clapp of Minnesota, and located at Hudson, Wis.

Charles A. Greene of,the New York law firm of Underwood, Van Vorst & Hoyt, died September 25 at New Haven, Conn. He was thirty-four years of age, and a graduate of •Yale, 1899, and the Yale Law School, 1902. He had been associated with this firm for E. D. Martin of Baltimore, Md., died Sep five years, making a specialty of corporation tember 20. Mr. Martin was a prominent law law. He died on the eve of his intended yer of that city and head of the judicial de marriage, and the ushers were chosen to act partment of the Fidelity Trust Company. as pallbearers. He formerly took an active part in politics, serving in the legislature. He was graduated Roger M. Lee of the firm of Lee & McMarty, from St. John's College in the class of 1874. Cleveland, Ohio, committed suicide, Septem 2, by shooting. He was probably worried John A. F. Hey died September 22, at his berill-health and the delay in trying his cases. home in Clarion, Pa. He was born in New by He was about forty-four years old, and a Bethlehem, Pa., in 1864. He was counsel for graduate of the University of Michigan law three national banks, two trust companies department. Later he became the partner of and several coal mining and other corpora Judge Mr. Lee taught admir tions. He was a member of the Pennsylvania alty lawD.inH.theTilden. law department of the Western House of Representatives from 1897 to 1903. Reserve University. S. Proctor Thayer of North Adams, Mass., died September 2. He was born July 1, 1853, and was a graduate of Williams College, and later of the law school of Boston University. He served a term in the Massachusetts senate, was special justice of the local court, and served in the state House of Representatives in 1880 and 1881. John Henry Colby, a Boston lawyer, and formerly a representative in the Massachusetts Legislature, having also been a councilman and alderman in Boston, died of heart failure at Mount Vernon, N. H., September 11. He was born in Randolph, Mass., June 13, 1862. He was. a graduate of Dartmouth College and of Boston University Law School. George Harvey Christy, aged seventy-three years, of Christy & Christy, patent lawyers, died September 27 in Pittsburgh, Pa. Mr. Christy was born in Kinsman, O., and was educated in the public and high schools and was graduated from the Western Reserve College, then at Hudson, O., now the Western Reserve Uni versity of Cleveland. After serving in the Civil War he came to Pittsburgh and prac tised law with William Bakewell. Later he took up the practice of patent law exclusively.

John Cornell Schenck, a former practising lawyer in Brooklyn, died at his home in that city September 29. Mr. Schenck was gradu ated in law from Columbia College in 1860. In the early years of his active life he was town clerk for the township of New Lots, and later became Associate Justice of the Court of Common Pleas of Kings County. He was born in the old Schenck homestead, on Jamaica avenue, Brooklyn, on February 27, 1837. Murray F. Smith, a lawyer and politician of Vicksburg, Miss., died September 27. He was a member of the law firm of Smith, Hirsch & Landau, counsel for the Yazoo and Missis sippi Valley railroad. In 1887 he was elected to represent Warren county in the lower house of the legislature and was a member of the constitutional convention of 1890. In 1896 he was elected state senator. He was a dele gate from the state at large to the national Democratic convention of 1892. The death of Governor John A. Johnson of Minnesota cut short the expectations of his friends that he would receive the Democratic nomination for the Presidency in 1912. The son of immigrant parents of no superior traits,