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Gleason, James, who died Jan. 30, was considered one of the ablest admiralty and probate practitioners of the Port land, Ore., bar. He was a native of California. Hatch, Judge David Patterson, a promi nent lawyer of Los Angeles, died Feb. 21, aged sixty-five. He had served as dis trict attorney and county judge. He wrote "Scientific Occultism," "The Blood of the Gods," and other books. Hendrick, S. J., former Speaker of the lower house of the Texas legislature, died at Henderson, Tex., Feb. 12. He had been county judge for fourteen years. Lanning, William M., United States Circuit Judge, died in Trenton Feb. 16, of heart trouble, aged sixty-three. Be fore that he was a federal district judge. He had served one term in Congress. In 1885 he published "Help for Town ship Officers." In 1887, with G. D. W. Vroom, he compiled and published a supplement to the Revised Laws of New Jersey, and in 1895 a new edition of all the general statutes of New Jersey. Judge Lanning was a member of the special commission that framed the present comprehensive township laws, and of the Constitutional Commission of 1894. Morgan, J. Willard, former state comp troller of New Jersey, died at his home in Camden, N. J., late in February. Mr. Morgan, who was one of the leading lawyers in South Jersey, was born at Blackwood in 1854. He was an active Republican worker for many years. Post, Hoyt. — Having been an active member of the Detroit bar for fortynine years, Hoyt Post, president of the Detroit Bar Library Association, died on June 31. From 1872 to 1878 Mr. Post was official Reporter for the Michi

gan Supreme Court, and for several years was a member of the Michigan Fish Commission. Spence, Thomas W., head of the law firm of Quarles, Spence & Quarles, died in Milwaukee Feb. 24. He was born in Dungannon, Ireland, in 1846, com ing to Ohio when he was two years old, and being valedictorian of his class when he was graduated from Cornell University. While residing at Fond du Lac, Wis., he served in the Wiscon sin legislature from 1879 to 1884, and was chairman of the State Republican Convention in 1884. He became a part ner of the late Judge Joseph V. Quarles in 1881, the firm moving to Milwaukee seven years later. Terry, Henry C., a prominent lawyer of Philadelphia, died Feb. 14, at the age of sixty-five. While mainly con cerned in litigation in Philadelphia courts, federal and state, he was well and favorably known to the bench of the Supreme Court of the United States and Court of Claims at Washington. His most notable successes were in cases for and against corporations, though he had a large mercantile and Orphans' Court practice. Weaver, Gen. James B., died at Des Moines Feb. 6. He was candidate for President on the Greenback -Labor ticket in 1880 and on the Populist ticket in 1892. He was graduated at the Cin cinnati Law School in 1856, but did not follow the law as a profession. White, Trueman C., retired, of the New York Supreme Court, died in Buffalo Feb. 7. He was a veteran of the Civil War, and had been on the bench for several years when, in 1896, he was elected to the Supreme Court. It was Justice White who presided over the trial of Czolgoz, the assassin of President McKinley.