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and members of the Illinois Legislature. Volume of Illinois Reports, and his last will Skinner was a member of the Constitutional probably appear in the 114th volume of that Convention of 1870, and, says Chief-Justice series, making in all ninety-five volumes. . . . Fuller, " gave proofs ... of marked ability Throughout that long period of time he was never absent from his place on the bench as a jurist." Lyman Trumbull was a member of this during a single term. . . . He was usually the court from Dec. 4, 1848, to July 4, 1853. first one to enter the conference-room . . . A sketch and portrait of him appear in this and the last one to leave it. . . . He never failed to write an opinion in a case assigned magazine (vol. i. p. 337).

to him, . . . and he Corydon Beckwith, . . . very often wrote born in Caledonia opinions in cases not County, Vermont, July assigned to him, to 24, 1823, came to Illi nois in 1853, and was assist and relieve a appointed by Gov. brother judge. . . . Neither private busi Richard Yates a judge ness nor social en of the Supreme Court, joyment, not even and served from Jan. sickness of friends 7, to June, 1864. or family, was allowed Thence until his death, to claim his atten August 18, 1890, he practised in Chicago, tion at the expense of and was the General the business of the Solicitor of the Chi court. . . . His life cago and Alton Rail was literally sacrificed road. to his sense of judicial Pinkney H. Walker, duty." whose services in this He wrote about court were as exten three thousand opin sive as any in its his ions, among which was tory, was born in Adair the one in Swift v. County, Kentucky, Castle, 23 Ill. 209. June 18, 181 5. He This case is unusual DAVID JEWETT BAKER, studied law with his because of the vigo uncle Cyrus Walker, rous and elaborate a prominent lawyer in Illinois. He became dissent of Justice Breese, the reply of Chiefa Circuit Judge in 1853, and a member of Justice Caton thereto, and Justice Breese's the Supreme Court in 1858, where he re rejoinder. In Carroll v. City of East St. mained twenty-seven years nine months and Louis, 67 lll. 568, and Starkweather v. twenty-eight days, till his death, Feb. 7, American Bible Society, 72 lll. 50, he wrote 1885. He was Chief-Justice about five and the opinion of the court in important cases a half years of that time. involving the power of foreign corporations Chief-Justice Scholfield in a memorial re to hold land in Illinois. sponse said : " Judge Walker's mind was Charles B. Lawrence, Judge of this court strong and practical, and he was industrious nine years from June, 1864, and Chief-Justice to a degree that I have never seen surpassed. three years of that time, was born in VerHe was thoroughly and incorruptibly honest. gennes, Vermont, Dec. 17, 1820. His father . His first opinion is reported in the 19th was Judge Ville Lawrence, whose great 3'