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Patrick Henry McCarren, New York state senator and Democratic leader of Brooklyn, died October 23. He was born in East Cambridge, Mass., fifty-eight years ago. In 1881 he was sent to the Assembly, where he served three terms. During his last term he took up the study of law and was admitted to the bar. In 1888 he was elected to the state senate and had been re-elected every term since with one exception. Samuel Blair Griffith of Pittsburgh, Pa., aged fifty-seven, one of the best known members of the Allegheny county bar, the first president of Pittsburgh's Civil Service Commission, and formerly Assistant United States District Attorney, died October 19 in that city. He was born in Mercer, March 12, 1852. He was appointed Assistant United States District Attorney for the Western district of Pennsylvania by President Cleve land in 1893. John Stewart Kennedy, a New York lawyer, financier and philanthropist, died October 31. He was nearly eighty years old. He was a director of many large corporations, including the Northern Pacific Railway Company, and held office in many charitable and public institutions, being chairman of the Presbyterian Hospital of New York and second vice-president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and of the New York Public Library. His will made enormous bequests to charity. George T. Sewall of Old Town, Me., died October 31, at the age of sixty-five. Mr. Sewall spent practically all his life in Old Town. He was graduated from Bowdoin College in 1867. He was once a member of the Maine legislature and held other public offices. An honored citizen of his town, he was also a profound student of the law and in his more active years had a large practice. The Penobscot Bar Association was repre sented at his funeral and appointed a com mittee to draw up resolutions. Joseph Tanner Richards, of the law firm of Richards, Richards & Ferry, Salt Lake City, died October 9 following an operation for appendicitis. For twenty-six years he had lived in Salt Lake and for the last seventeen years had ranked among the leading lawyers of the city. When twenty-one years old he graduated from the Cornell law department and took up practice in Michigan. After a short career there he returned to Salt Lake, where a year, later he was made Assistant United States Attorney for the territory. Frank W. Lewis, a Boston lawyer and student of social and economic problems, died at Concord, Mass., October 8. He had made a careful study of the various forms of life insurance and their relations to the laboring man, and had recently published a discussion of "State Insurance, in which

he urged a revision of the German scheme of insurance. Mr. Lewis was born in Claremont, N. H., in 1840, and graduated from Dartmouth in 1866. For ten years he resided in Lincoln, Neb., where he was active in politics, twice conducting a successful cam paign against the saloon element. United States Senator Martin Nelson Johnson of North Dakota died October 20 at Fargo, N. D. He was born in Wisconsin about fifty-nine years ago. He removed to Iowa when he was a boy, where he received his education at the State University. He was elected to the lower branch of the legis lature and was admitted to the bar. In 1882 he moved to North Dakota, where he took up government lands. He was elected Dis trict Attorney. From 1891 to 1899 he was a member of Congress, retiring to resume his law practice. Last year he was elected by the legislature to succeed Senator Hansbrough. W. Mosby Williams died October 1, at Washington, D. C., on the very day when the District Supreme Court put into operation the new rules of practice, for the adoption of which he labored earnestly and untiringly for more than two years as chairman of the committee of the local bar. Mr. Williams was born in Front Royal, Va., about forty years ago, and came to Washington as a poor boy. He was graduated from the Law School of Georgetown University in the class of 1890 and received his master's degree in 1891. He was admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia in 1890, and entered actively upon the practice of his profession about three years later. John Prentiss Poe, leader of the Maryland bar, died October 14 in Baltimore, Md., aged seventy-three. He had been dean of the law school of Maryland University since 1871. He was a native of Baltimore and was gradu ated from Princeton University in 1854 and was admitted to the bar in 1857. He served as city solicitor for two years in Baltimore, and in various public offices, and was elected state senator in 1899 and in 1891 was elected Attorney-General of the state on the Demo cratic ticket. In 1869 he was elected a regent of the University of Maryland and later be came dean of the faculty. As a practitioner at the Baltimore bar he had a long and suc cessful career. In 1886 Mr. Poe was appointed by the General Assembly to prepare the Maryland Code of Public General and Local Laws, and his codification was adopted by the act of 1888 and re-adopted in 1890. He was well known as an author and authority on legal subjects. Memorial exercises in his honor were held in the Superior Court room in Baltimore October 22, addresses being made by Judge Harlan, Attorney-General Straus, Edgar H. Gans, Joseph C. France, and State's Attorney Albert S. J. Owens. "No one in this generation," said Judge