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to do nothing but to choose what I

and the International Law Association

would wish to do."

of London.‘ He is now President of the Connecticut

Chief Justice Hall said :— “Justice Baldwin retires in perfect mental and physical health. His only weakness is a constitutional weakness. The constitution says that he is no longer capable of holding the oﬁice. But the constitution is very much mis taken.”

Academy of Arts and Sciences, of the Connecticut Society of the Archaeological Institute of America, of the Trustees of the Hopkins Grammar School of New Haven, and Director of the Bureau of

Simeon E. Baldwin was born Febru ary 5, 1840, at New Haven, educated

Comparative Law of the American Bar Association. He is a member of the American Anti quarian Society and the National Insti tute of Arts and Letters, and a corre

at the Hopkins Grammar School and

sponding member of the Massachusetts

Yale College (A. B. 1861), and after wards studied law in the Yale and Har vard Law Schools. In 1893 he was

Historical Society, the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, and the Institut de

appointed a member of the Supreme Court of Errors of Connecticut, and since

1907 had been the Chief Justice. Before going on the bench he was in active practice at the bar, both in the

Draft Compare of Brussels. Harvard gave him the degree of LL.D. in 1891. Besides having been a frequent con tributor to the transactions of various

societies and to legal or historical peri odicals, both in the United States and

state and federal courts, and occasion

abroad, he has published a Digest of the

ally appeared in important cases in those

Connecticut Reports, “Modern Political

of New York, Massachusetts and Rhode

Institutions,” “The American Judiciary,"

Island, as well as before the Supreme

“American Railroad Law,” and was a co-author of "Two Centuries’ Growth of American Law." Chief Justice Hall, who succeeds Judge Baldwin, was born in Saratoga Springs, N. Y., Feb. 20, 1843, the son of Jonathan and Livonia (Hayward) Hall. He

Court of the United States. He had from time to time served on state commissions for the revision of the education laws, of the system of tax ation, of the General Statutes, and to

simplify and reform procedure in civil actions. Since 1869 he has been one of the Faculty of the Yale Law School, and

has given several hours a week to class room work.

This he was able to begin

and keep up on Saturdays and Mondays, by declining engagements in the Court of Common Pleas; the higher courts not

sitting on those days. He has been President of the New

Haven Colony Historical Society, the American Historical Association, the American Bar Association, the Asso ciation of American Law Schools, the

American ‘Social Science Association,

worked his way through Brown Univer sity, from which he was graduated in 1867 and last June received the de gree of LL.D. Yale has also con ferred the degree of A. M. upon him. He enlisted in the Seventeenth Connec ticut Regiment of Volunteers in 1862,

and was admitted to the bar of Fair ﬁeld county in 1870. He was made judge of the Court of Common Pleas for Fairﬁeld county in 1877 and held that post till 1889, when he became a

judge of the Superior Court. From this tribunal he was advanced to the Su preme Court in 1897.