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 The Green Bag

54 Oﬂicers

elected

for

the

ensuing

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include: President, W. T. Slater, S em; secretary, W. L. Brewster; treasurer, Charles

J. Schnabel; assistant treasurer, L. C. Mackey,

Obituary Henry Jll. Hoyt.—Henry Martyn Hoyt, counselor for the Department of State, died at his home in Washin

on, D. C., Nov. 20,

of peritonitis. Mr. oyt was the strong right arm of Philander C. Knox when the latter was Attorney-General, and when Mr. Knox became Secretary of State the latter lost no time in obtaining his transfer to the State Department. Mr. Hoyt was born in Wilkesbarre, Dec. 2, 1856, the son of Gen. H. M. Hoyt, once Governor of the commonwealth. He was educated in the public schools, was graduated from Yale in 1878, took a post-graduate law course in the University of Pennsylvania in 1881 and afterwards was admitted to the bar and practised law in Pittsburg. In 1883 he married Anna. daughter of Col. Morton McMichael of Philadelphia. He came to Washington in 1897 to accept an ap intment as assistant Attorney Genera. He served in that position until March 21, 1903, when he was appointed Solicitor-General b

President Roosevelt to

succeed John K. 'chards. Solicitor-General, Mr. Hoyt argued several noted cases Many of them were of a character and the trace of his the law of the land.

While he was prepared and with success. constitutional work is left in

he represented the proponents of the will in the famous Davis will case. For many years he was Chief Counsel for the interests represented by the late Marcus Daly. He was a member of the American Bar Associa tion, and at the time of his retirement from the active practice of law was considered the best lawyer in the state. James B. Dill.—]udge James Brooks Dill, until recently a member of the New Jersey Court of Errors and Appeals, and one of the leading American authorities on corporation law, died at his home at East Orange, N. 1., Dlgc. 2, of pneumonia. He was ﬁfty-six years 0 . Judge Dill was a aduate of Yale and was admitted to the bar in New York City in 1878 and from the beginning of his career devoted gractically his entire attention to co ration w. He was the author of “Dill on orpora tions," the standard work on the subject. ment His activities of various in connection corporations with andthe as manage— director and counsel of large co rate interests have made his name known t roughout the United States. He formed fully thirty important trusts having an aggregate capital of almost $600,000,000. He was said to have received a fee of $1,000,000 for his work in connection with the organization of the United States Steel Co ration. Judge )ill was born at Spencerport, N. Y., on uly 25, 1854. In 1858 his parents moved to hicago, where they remained till the death of his father in 1862. Mrs. Dill then moved to New Haven, Conn. Four years later her son, then fourteen years old, went to Oberlin,

William Wirt Dixon.-—Hon. William Wirt Dixon died at Los Angeles, California, on

November‘ 13, 1910, in the seventy-third ear of his age. He was born in Brooklyn, ew York, June 3, 1838, but moved while a

boy to Iowa, and was admitted to practice there in 1858. He practised his profession in Iowa, Tennessee and Arkansas, and in 1862 crossed the Plains to California, but soon returned as far east as Nevada, where he remained four years and then went to Helena. Montana, and later to Deer Lodge, Montana. In 1879 he went to the Black Hills, but returned to Montana and located in Butte in 1881, where he remained until 1907,

when failing health compelled him to seek a warmer climate. Judge Dixon was a member of both Con stitutional Conventions of the state of Montana. was president of the Montana State Bar Association from

1887 to

1891,

Ohio, where he spent three years in a re paratory course, entering the freshman 0 SS of Oberlin College in 1871. The following year he left Oberlin to enter the freshman class of Yale University and was graduated in 1876. For a ear he taught in a private school in Phila e1 hia, at the same time studying law with. Cope Mitchell, a noted equity awyer. He went to New York in 1877, was an instructor in Latin and mathe

matics in the Stevens Institute, and at the same time entered the Senior class in the

Universit Law School, from which he was graduate as salutatorian of his class in 1878. In New Jersey as well as in New York Judge Dill had been prominent in corporation matters. He had been director and one of the counsel of the National Steel Company, of the American Tin Plate Company and the Carnegie Company. He was a member of the Roosevelt committee for revising the laws

and was a representative in the Fifty-second Congress from Montana. He was prominent

of New York and was counsel to the com

in political life in Montana, and was one of

only time on record that a forei

the leaders of the Democratic Party. In his law practice he was prominently connected with the most notable litigation in the state;

called in American counsel. e married in Philadelphia, in 1880, Mary W. Hansell of that city.

mittee for revising the laws of Canada, the

Government