wealth, but of the neighboring States and in the Supreme Court of the United States. Judge Samuel M. Breckenridgk, of St. Louis, one of the best known lawyers in the United States, died suddenly at Detroit, Mich., on May 28. He belonged to the famous Kentucky family of that name, and was the son of Rev. John Breckenridge, one of the most noted Presbyterian divines of his day, a cousin of John C. Breckenridge and a nephew of Robert J. Breckenridge. He was born in Baltimore, Md., Nov. 3, 1828, and was educated at Union College, New York, Centre College, Kentucky, and graduated from Prince ton. He then took up the study of the law, and completed the law course at Transylvania Uni versity at Lexington, Ky., in 1840. Upon leaving the University he went to St. Louis, where he en gaged in the practice of the law, and had since resided. In 1858 he ran for Congress against Frank P. Blair and John R. Barrett, but was de feated. In 1859 he was elected a Circuit Judge over Newton Strong, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Judge Lackland. At the end of the term, which was four years, he was ap pointed a member of the State Convention which terminated in 1863. In 1866 he was made Sur veyor of Customs for the port of St. Louis. Judge Breckenridge was a polished after-dinner orator, his ability in that line being acknowledged by all who knew him. Besides his law practice, Judge Breckenridge was interested in many busi ness and co-operative enterprises, and took a keen interest in the advancement of the interests of St. Louis. No man had warmer friends. Politically he was well known, and was prominently spoken of as a probable appointee to the vacancy on the United States Supreme Bench which occurred in President Hayes's administration, and also the one now occupied by Judge Brewer. At one time his friends thought he would be made a member of President Harrison's Cabinet.
Judge C. J. McCurdy died June 8, at his home in Lyme, Conn., his native place. He was born Dec. 7, 1797. He graduated at Yale in 18 17, and was at his death the oldest graduate. He rep resented Lyme in the State Legislature of Con necticut for ten terms, and the District in the Senate one term. He was Lieutenant-Governor two years.
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In 1851 he represented the United States at the Court of Austria. In 1856 he was appointed Judge of the Superior Court, and in 1863 was promoted to the Supreme Bench. He was a mem ber of the Peace Congress at Washington in 1861. He was retired from the bench by the age limita tion in 1867. Since then he has delivered many courses of lectures before the Yale Law School. He received the degree of LL.D. at Yale. He was, perhaps, the best-known lawyer in Connecticut.
Stillman B. Allen, one of the best-known mem bers of the Suffolk Bar, died in Boston, June 9. He was born in September, 1830, at Waterborough, York County, Me., and was the son of Horace O. and Elizabeth Allen. He received his early edu cation in the academies in North Yarmouth, Kennebunk, and Alfred, Me. In September, 1853, he was admitted to the bar, and practised law in his native State until May, 1861, when he removed to Boston, and two years later became associated with the Hon. John D. Long, who subsequently retired from the firm upon his election as Governor of the State. Mr. Allen was largely engaged in jury trials, and had the reputation of winning for his clients the largest verdicts against railroads and other corporations ever rendered in this country. In 1876-1877 Mr. Allen represented his ward in the House of Representatives, serving the first year on the Committee of the Judiciary, and the next as Chairman of the Committee on Probate and Insolvency. In 1877 he conducted an inves tigation made by the Legislature into the alleged abuses existing in the State Reform School, which led to an entire change in the management of that institution. Marland Cogswell Hobbs, one of the most promising and able among the younger members of the Suffolk Bar, died at his home in Brookline yesterday afternoon. He was a son of the late William and Mary M. (Cogswell) Hobbs, and was born in Roxbury in November, 1862. After grad uating from Harvard College in the class of 1885, he began the study of law at the Harvard Law School, where he took high stand as a member of the Thayer and Pow-wow Law Clubs, and as one of the founders of the " Harvard Law Review," of the Board of Editors of which he was the second president. While still a law student he was appointed
