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steam and sailing vessels on the Pacific ocean. He is likewise a director and general counsel of this company, is vicepresident and director of the Syracuse Trust Company, and a director of the Commercial National Bank. Mr. Nottingham is of Holland Dutch descent on the paternal side. His father was Van Vleck Nottingham, the family having been represented in the Revo lutionary War by several members. Three brothers of the name arrived in the new world early in the eighteenth century, one settling in New York and another in Virginia. The mother of our subject, Abigail Maria (Williams) Not tingham, was a representative of the Williams and Stark families, who figured largely in the Revolutionary War. The subject of this sketch was also for many years a lecturer on corpora tion law at the law college of Syracuse University, and was also a trustee of the University until elected a member of the Board of Regents of the Univer sity of New York State, which office he has held since 1902. Recently he was made a member of the executive com mittee of The Trust Companies Asso ciation of the State of New York. He received the Master of Arts degree in 1877, the Doctor of Philosophy degree

in 1878, and the Doctor of Laws degree in 1903 from Syracuse University, and in 1885-6 he was president of its alumni association. He was president of the Onondaga County Bar Association in 1910 and 1911, and a vice-president of the New York State Bar Association in 1910. Mr. Nottingham was married Oct. 20, 1881, to Miss Eloise Holden, a daughter of Erastus F. Holden, a promi nent coal merchant of central New York. In politics Mr. Nottingham is a stal wart Republican and a deep student of the political movements and questions of the day. He has been solicited to become a candidate for nearly every political office in Syracuse, but has always refused, saying that he cannot be a lawyer and a politician at the same t'me. Mr. Nottingham belongs to the Pilgrims' Club of New York and Lon don, to the Lawyers' Club of New York, the Citizens' Club and Century Club of Syracuse, the Delta Kappa Epsilon and the Phi Beta Kappa. He holds member ship in the First Methodist Church and to a large extent co-operates in the good work that is done in the name of charity and religion. In manner he is extremely modest and unostentatious.

The Courts and the New Social Questions1 BY EDWARD Q. KEASBEY, OF THE NEW JERSEY BAR AFTER bidding the members of the Maryland Bar Association welcome to New Jersey, Mr. Keasbcy referred to the fact that Maryland and New Jersey have this in common — 'An address delivered before the Maryland Bar Association at Cape May, N. J., June 30, 1911.

that they were both proprietary colonies and were both established with the pur pose of securing civil and religious lib erty under the control of legal authority; both were organized after the pattern of the government of England and both inherited English laws and the English