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 The Legal World 1886, elected an associate judge of the Court of Appeals of New York. He was the last of President Cleveland's Democratic ap pointees to the bench of the United States Supreme Court, Chief Justice Fuller and Justice White being the other two. He took his seat in January, 1896.

Necrology— The Bar Archibald Foote Clark, of the firm of Gil lette & Clark, 99 Nassau street, New York City, died suddenly October 15. He was thirty-five years old. Hon. W. P. Pipes, Attorney-General of Nova Scotia, and representative of Cumber land County in the provincial Parliament, died suddenly in Cambridge, Mass., October 7. William R. Donihee died at his home in New York City October 4, after an illness of several months. He was long recognized as one of the most effective Tammany Hall orators, and served in the Assembly. Milton Sater, a member of the bar of Hamilton county, Ohio, and brother of United States District Judge John E. Sater of Co lumbus, died October 13 at his residence in Cincinnati. H. D. Tate, aged fifty-nine, died suddenly at Pittsburgh, Pa., October 22. He was the attorney and one of the moving figures in the proposed Bedford & Chambersburg Elec tric Railway. Capt. Leland Hathaway, the oldest member of the Winchester (Ky.) bar, died October 23 aged seventy-four. At the time of his death he was Master Commissioner of the Circuit Court. Isaac Franklin Jones, one of the most prominent and wealthiest lawyers in West Virginia, died October 10, in Wheeling, W. Va., aged seventy-three. He practised law here for forty years. Judge James Calvin Sawyer died in Terre Haute, Ind., October 12. He was sixty-one years old and for more than twelve years had been one of the leading attorneys of the Vigo county Bar. John S. Reynolds died October 25 at Columbia, S. C. He was Supreme Court librarian, a prominent lawyer and newspaper man, and author of "Reconstruction in South Carolina." J. Q. A. Sullivan, formerly well known in Pittsburgh, where he practised for many years, died at Butler, Pa., October 29. He

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was born in Prospect, Pa., and was admitted to the bar in 1861 Joseph A. Stetson, a New York patent lawyer, died October 29 in Brookline, Mass. He was graduated from Harvard College in 1891, and from the Harvard Law School in 1894. He was one of the board of overseers of Harvard University. Robert B. Murray, aged sixty-six, one of the oldest and best known members of the Mahoning county (Ohio) bar, died October 22, at Youngstown, O. Two years ago he was stricken in the United States Court at Cleveland with paralysis. C. C. Brock of Cottage Grove, Oregon, died October 31, aged sixty-one years. Mr. Brock was a retired lawyer of prominence, having practised at the bar of many of the eastern states He was born in Pennsylvania, and had practised for thirty years. Benjamin Franklin Etter, the oldest of the Dauphin county bar and former Deputy Attorney-General of Pennsylvania, died at Harrisburg, Pa., October 16, at the age of eighty-five years. Mr. Etter retired from practice several years ago. Frederick T. Johnson, at one time city attorney and later comptroller of Newark, N. J., died October 14, in that city. He was born in Newark on September 18, 1858, and was admitted to the New Jersey bar in 1876. Appropriate resolutions were adopted by the Essex County Bar Association. Hugh K. Mcjunkin, aged sixty-five, a leading attorney of the Pacific coast, died early in October in his home at Sawtelle, Cal. He served in the Civil War and when he had reached middle age he studied law and served one term as district attorney for the thirteenth jurisdiction district of Iowa. Hon. Francis Rives Lassiter, for many terms the member of Congress from the fourth Virginia district, died in Petersburg, Va., October 31. He was city attorney of Petersburg for five years, and was appointed United States Attorney for the eastern dis trict of Virginia by President Cleveland. Charles Russell Sturgis, a Boston lawyer, died October 2, at the age of thirty-eight years. He was graduated from Harvard in the class of 1893, and three years later, from Harvard Law School. He was admitted to the bar and was for a short time in the office of Storey & Thorndike. Later, he took an office with the late Robert Codman. Mr. Sturgis gave most of his attention to trustee ships for estates.