ing men's real property to the payment of all their debts. Lord Brougham says: "Strange force of early prejudice—of prejudice suffered to warp the intellect while yet feeble and uninformed; and which owed its origin to the very error that it embodied in its conclusions; that of making the errors of mankind in their ignorant and inexperienced state, the guide of their conduct at their mature age, and appealing to those errors as the wisdom of past times, when they were the unripe fruit of imperfect intellectual culture."
Recent Deaths.
The Hon. William H. Whitman, clerk of the Plymouth county courts for over thirty years, died at Plymouth, Mass., August 13. He was born in Pembroke, Jan. 26, 18 17. After studying law in the office of Thomas Prince, of Kingston, Mr. William Whitman began practice at Bath, Me., where he lived several years. During this time he served as adjutant in the Maine militia. Afterwards going to Boston he formed a partnership with the Hon. Charles G. Davis. In 1851, he was appointed clerk of the Plymouth county courts, succeeding John B. Thomas, and under the law of 1855, making the position elective, he had held the office ever since by successive elections once in five years. He was a man of genial nature, and greatly beloved by all who knew him.
Henry Weld Fuller, formerly a prominent lawyer of Boston, died at his residence in that city on August 14th. Mr. Fuller was born in Augusta, Me., on the 16th day of January, 1810, and was the son of the late Henry W. Fuller of that city. His mother was Esther Gould, a daughter of Captain Benjamin Gould of Newburyport, and a sister of the well-known poetess, Hannah Flagg Gould. At the age of eighteen he graduated from Bowdoin College with the class of 1828, delivering the Latin salutatory at the commencement exercises. He studied law at the Harvard Law School, and in his father's office. After a short sojourn in Florida he returned to Augusta in 1832, and entered upon the active practice of his profession. Being a young man of exceptional talents, a fluent and brilliant speaker, he speedily attained an enviable position at the bar. In 1841, he removed to Boston and formed a copartnership for legal practice with E. Haskett Derby. Subsequently he was appointed clerk of the Circuit Court of the United States for the district of Massachusetts, a position which he held for many years. In 1835, he married Mary Storer Goddard, daughter of the late Nathaniel Goddard of Boston. Mr. Fuller was an uncle of the present Chief-Justice of the United States, and of the eminent astronomer, Dr. Benjamin A. Gould. He was a gentleman of the old school, dignified and courteous in manner, but with a kindly genial nature which won at once the love and respect of all who were brought into contact with him.
James R. Doolittle., Jr., for many years a prominent member of the Chicago Bar, died at his home in Chicago, Aug. 8th.
Mr. Doolittle was born April 2, 1845, in Warsaw, N. Y., and graduated from Rochester University in 1865. He graduated from the Cambridge Law School in 1869, and practised law in Chicago with his father, ex-Senator Doolittle, practically from that time until his death. At the time of his death, he had been for five years a member of the City Board of Education, having been appointed by Mayor Harrison, and re-appointed by Mayor Cregier. At one time he was president of the Board. In this position he is credited with having done a great deal of useful work, especially in connection with the sanitary condition of the schools. He married the widowed daughter of ex-Governor Matteson, of Illinois, who, with three children, survives him.
The death of ex-Judge William F. Bullock at Shelbyville, Ky., removes one of the oldest and best known lawyers in that State. Judge Bullock had attained the ripe old age of eighty-two. He was born near Lexington, Ky., and educated at Transylvania University. He was one of the founders of public schools in Kentucky, having presented the first bill for their establishment. He also drew up, in 1858, the bill for the establishment of the first school for the blind, south of the Ohio, and secured the establishment in Louisville of the printing-house for the blind. He was president of the board of control of this institution from that time till his death. He recently secured the establishment of a school for blind colored children.
