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high tone which prevailed throughout. The President of the tribunal commended it in terms of deserved eulogy. His practice has been for many years very large. He was made President of the American Bar Association in 1894. Since the death of his former partner, Mr. Henry J. Scudder, in 1886, with whom he was associated for thirty-three years, Mr. Ledyard, a grandson of General Cass, has been associated with him. Mr. Carter is a bachelor, and retains, to all appearances, his old-time vigor and earnestness, and is greatly esteemed by his associates."—Clark's Sketches of Eminent Lawyers.

Mr. Clark rightly says that Mr. Carter retains his old-time vigor and earnestness. No man who has met him at the Bar, in conflict, needs any proof of that. Five feet nine inches in height; strong-legged; square-waisted; deep-chested; full-blooded; ruddy and vigorous, but carrying no freight; easy of movement; and strong of grip; he has to this day kept up an eager interest in sport, and loves out-of-door life. Naturally a strong man; in that same great Jumel will case, his running-mate, Mr. O'Conor, so forced the pace that it took his junior off his feet; and, breaking down with nervous exhaustion, he left the active practice of the law for some four years; and, like the sensible man he is, devoted himself to thoroughly regaining the health that intense and unremitting over-work, for a quarter of a century, had so impaired. He "shot ducks from Currituck to Eastport," as he once said; and at his charming home by the sea, directly under the light of one of the great light-houses of Long Island, where he spends his summers, his neighbors delight to tell of his athletic doings. One of them says that in the teeth of a gale, when Shinnecock Bay is a mass of foaming whitecaps, "Judge" Carter—as they love to call him—takes his boat alone, and rows right into the very roughest

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