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 The Green Bag

390 who was a powerful

ﬁgure in the

constitutional convention of the early

and former Reporter of Decisions of the Supreme Court of Maine. He was the son of Hannibal Hamlin, Vice-Presi

seventies.

dent during Lincoln's ﬁrst administra Charles F. Choate. —Charles Francis later

tion. Being graduated from Bowdoin College in 1857, he read law with his

president of the Old Colony Railroad,

father, and was admitted to the bar in

Choate,

formerly

counsel

and

and once a leading member of the Boston

1858.

bar, died May 23 at the age of eighty

of brevet Brigadier-General, he resumed the practice of law in Bangor after the war. Aside from the practice of his profession he found time to do some legal writing, and wrote and compiled a work upon the Insolvency Laws of Maine. He was also the author of a series of biographical articles in the Green Bag on the Supreme Court of

three.

During his presidency of the

Old Colony the policy of consolidating the lines of southeastern'Massachusetts

was carried out, and the consolidated property was leased to the New York,

New Haven 8: Hartford, of which com pany Mr. Choate served as a director. Under his presidency the Old Colony Steamboat Company built the fleet of steamboats which have given wide fame to the Fall River line.

Maine.

Leaving the army with the rank

(7 Green Bag 457, 504, 553; 8

G. B. 14, 61, Ill.) La Fayette Grover.

-—

La

Fayette

R. H. Clarke. —Richard H. Clarke,

Grover, a leading ﬁgure of pioneer

one of the founders of the Association

history, former Governor of Oregon,

of the Bar of the City of New York, and

former United States Senator, and one of the last surviving delegates of the

associated with Charles O'Conor in the case of the United States against Jefferson Davis for treason, the Jumel will case and the Forrest divorce suit,

died at his home in New York May 24, at the age of eighty-four. He had known nearly every President of the United States since Jackson, and came of a distinguished ancestry. He was the editor of “The History of the Bench and Bar of New York" and the author of

“Lives of the Deceased Bishops of the Catholic Church in the United States," “The Illustrated History of the Catholic Church in the United States," “Life of Pope Leo XIII," “Old and New Lights on Columbus," and “France's

Oregon constitutional convention of 1857, died at Portland, Ore., May 10, aged eighty-seven. He was a native of Bethel, Me., and was of Pilgrim descent. He studied for two years at Bowdoin

College and studied law in Philadelphia, being admitted to practice in 1850. He emigrated to Salem, Ore., in a vessel which went round Cape Horn, his ﬁrst

position of public service being as clerk of the federal District Court at Salem. Thereafter he rose rapidly. In the Territorial Legislature he promoted the bill leading to the establishment of Willamette University, of which he became one of the trustees. He became

Aid to America in the War of Inde pendence."

the most important member of the con

General Charles Hamlin. -—- General Charles Hamlin of Bangor, Me., died on May 15, at the age of seventy-three. He was United States Commissioner,

man he bore a large part of the brunt of the conﬂict leading to the admission into the Union of Oregon by a close

stitutional convention, and as Congress

margin of votes in 1859.