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 The Legal World The fool and the pessimist will always be with us, but I feel and hope that the day of the warrior is about gone and that the day of the lawyer and the judge has

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York, in his eighty-seventh year, For more than ﬁfty years he was regarded as one of the ablest members of the New York bar, not as a court lawyer, but as an expert of great knowledge and sagacity

in intricate matters of constitutional and Obituary

railroad law. Many actions of great importance were won upon briefs which

James E. Hays. — James Eyre Hays, prominent as a corporation lawyer in New Jersey, New York and Philadel

he had prepared. He retired from active practice many years ago. Yale conferred upon him the degree of LL.D. in 1883.

phia, died June 29 in the last-named place, aged sixty-eight. He was the New Jersey counsel for many well

known corporations and practised in New York city from 1899 to 1904.

Solomon Schoyer. — Solomon Schoyer

died at Pittsburgh July 3, aged seventy nine. He was one of the best known attorneys at the bar and spent the greater part of his life in the practice of corporation law, being known as an

General William H. Koontz.—Gen eral William Henry Koontz, lawyer, orator and former Congressman, died at Somerset, Pa., July 4, in his eighty-ﬁrst

year.

He was elected District Attorney

of his county when twenty-six years of age. In Congress, he took an active part

in the Johnson impeachment proceed ings. For years he maintained an active interest in Republican politics and in

authority throughout the state. For many years he was associated with John

1898 was elected to the state House of Representatives and re-elected in 1900.

P. Hunter, the ﬁrm building up an ex tensive practice.

the contest against M. S. Quay and

Justice Frank A. Hooker. — Frank A. Hooker, Justice of the Supreme Court of

Michigan, a resident of Lansing, Mich., died suddenly July 10. He was born at Hartford, Conn., in 1844, and was gradu ated from the University of Michigan

in 1865. Before being appointed to the

In those sessions he took an active part in in 1901 was defeated for Speaker of the House by one vote, being the nominee of a combination of anti-Quay men. General Koontz was noted as an ora tor and lawyer. He was a director in

banks and railroads and coal companies.

Supreme bench in 1892 to ﬁll a vacancy,

Eugene F. Ware.— Eugene Fitch Ware, Pension Commissioner under Roosevelt,

he practised law in Bryan, Ohio, and

died suddenly of heart failure at Cas

Charlotte, Mich. He was elected Su preme Justice for ten-year terms in

cade, near Colorado Springs, July 1. Mr. Vare was seventy years old. He was born in Hartford, Conn., in 1841, and at an early age removed with his

1893 and 1903. During 1902 and 1903 he was Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Charles F. Southmayd.—Charles F. Southmayd, a law partner of the late Senator Villiam M. Evarts and of Hon.

Joseph H. Choate, died July 11 in New

parents to Iowa and obtained his edu cation in the public schools of Burling ton. When the Civil War broke out he enlisted in the First Iowa Volunteer Infantry, later serving in the Fourth Iowa Cavalry and as captain in the