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The Supreme Court of Illinois. ecuting attorney, Circuit Judge, a member of the Supreme Court one year and a half, and Governor of Illinois. He wrote a history of Illinois from 18 18 to 1847. He died Nov. 2, 1850, at Peoria. Scates was born at South Boston, Virginia, Jan. 18, 1808. He studied law in the office of Governor Morehead in Kentucky. He was assistant clerk of the Illinois House of Representatives, Circuit Judge, AttorneyGeneral, Judge of the

Supreme Court about ten years, Chief-Jus tice about two and a half years of that time, a member of the Constitutional Con vention of 1847, and a Brigadier-General in the late war. From 1857 to 1862 and con tinuously after the war until his death, Oct. 26, 1886, he practised law in Chicago. He was one of the co-edi tors of Treat, Scates, and Blackwell's Stat utes of Illinois, in force Dec. 1, 1857, in two volumes. The honors of Judge Scates were WILLIAM KING unsolicited offerings of the people. His in tegrity was unquestioned, His written opinions entitle him to, and he has received, high rank among the judges of the court. Of Douglas, who was a judge of this court only from Feb. 15, 1841, till June 28, 1843, it is sufficient to say that his career in the House of Representatives, the United States Senate, his political debates with Abraham Lincoln, and other incidents, have given him a fame which renders further statement here unnecessary. Treat was born in Otsego County, New York, June 21, 1811. He came to Illinois in

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1834, became a Circuit Judge in 1839, which office he held until his elevation to the Su preme Bench in 1841. He remained upon the Supreme Bench about fourteen years. For six years he was Chief-Justice. In 1855 he was appointed Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois, which position he held till his death at Springfield, March 27, 1887. His long list of written opinions are devoid of ostenta tion, and among the briefest and clearest that have been written. He was one of the co-editors of Treat, Scates, and Blackwell's Statutes. He was held in the highest regard by the profes sion and public. He was a cousin of Samuel Treat, lately Federal District Judge of the Eastern District of Missouri. Breese has probably received more univer sal praise for judicial ability than any other judgeof thiscourt. He was born in Oneida County, New York, MCALLISTER. July 15, 1800. At eighteen years of age he was graduated at Union College, third rank in a class of sixty-four, among whom were Bishops Alonzo Potter and George W. Doane, and United States Senators A. S. Porter and James A. Bayard. He came to Illinois in 1 8 18, on the invitation of his friend Elias Kent Kane, in whose office he studied law. He was admitted to the bar in 1820, married a sister of William R. Morrison, who is a member of the Inter-state Commerce Com mission, became Circuit Attorney and United States District Attorney, published " Reports of the Decisions of the Supreme Court of the