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enormous law practice, and was con sulted frequently as an expert in the subjects of street railways and municipal waterworks. He had several times de clined an appointment to the bench. He was an able orator. Governor Plaisted said of him: "Herbert M. Heath was one of Maine's greatest lawyers. He measured up intellectually with the ablest menof the wholecountry. His death is a distinct loss to the state. Here in Augusta, we who knew him best loved him for the many excellent quali ties of heart which he possessed and admired him for his brilliancy of in tellect. He was, moreover, an honest man and a most loyal citizen." Herron, John W., father of Mrs. William H. Taft, died Aug. 5 at his home in Cincinnati, aged 85. Mr. Herron was one of Cincinnati's most prominent lawyers until he abandoned the practice of law a few years ago. He was one of the most prominent members in the deliberations of the Ohio constitutional convention of 1872. Under President Harrison Mr. Herron became United States Attorney for the southern district of Ohio and served in that capacity for four years. Koon, Martin B., distinguished law yer, business man and worker for civic betterment in Minneapolis died Aug. 20. He was county attorney from 1870 to 1874 and judge of the fourth judicial district of Minnesota from 1883 to 1886. Miller, T. Scott, of Dallas, Tex., former general attorney for the Missouri Kansas & Texas Railway, died at his summer home in Michigan Aug. 3. He was a native Louisianian, and was grad uated from Harvard College and Har vard Law School, going to Dallas in 1876 to practise law in partnership with Judge Seth Sheppard and later with Col. W. Leake. Judge Miller was

made dean of the law department of the University of Texas in 1896. It was said of him, before his health be came impaired, that he enjoyed the largest civil practice in Texas. Parker, Judge Luman F., of Vinita, Okla., former federal judge of the northern district of the Indian Terri tory, died Aug. 14 in St. Louis. Judge Parker was one of the ablest jurists in in the state. Simpson, R. T., Associate Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, died Aug. 12 of bronchitis in a New York hospital. He was educated at Princeton and fought in the Confederate army. He had served in both houses of the state legislature. Stringfellow, Col. Charles S., for many years one of the most distinguished attorneys of Richmond, Va., died Aug. 11, in his seventy-sixth year. He retired in 1908. Stripling, Col. Joseph N., former United States Attorney for the southern district of Florida, died Aug. 16 in Hendersonville, N. C., whither he had gone from Jacksonville in search of health. Sweeney, Judge Edward, superinten dent of the United States Mint at San Francisco, died Aug. 17. He had been county attorney and judge of the Superior Court. Toney, Sterling B., former judge of the chancery court at Louisville, Ky., died in that city Aug. 22. He had practised law both in Alabama and in in New York, being elected to the legislature of both states. He was elected judge of the Kentucky Court of Appeals in 1904, but declined and moved to Den ver, where he became a leading figure. Walling, Stuart Douglas, Justice of the Colorado Court of Appeals, died at Denver Aug. 22. He was a former law partner of Governor Shafroth.