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The Supreme Court of New Jersey. resumed his practice in Trenton with very great success, but finally removed to Jersey City, where he died in March, 1873. Henry W. Green succeeded Chief-Justice Homblower in 1846. This eminent jurist has occupied the two highest judicial posi tions in the courts of New Jersey. Justice cannot possibly be done to him and his memory in the short space necessarily al lotted to him here.

He was born near Trenton in 1804. After receiving the most careful prepa ration, he entered Princeton College, and graduated in 1820, at the unprecedentedly youthful age of six teen. He was a born lawyer, and in no other profession could he possibly have at tained such eminence as he did as Coun sellor, Chief-Justice, and Chancellor. After graduation he entered the office of Charles E w i n g, afterward Chief-Justice. Very little is known of his life as a student, but it E. B. D. can well be imagined how master and pupil must have been drawn together. The young man was always sedate, sober, and studious; his distinguished teacher was the greatest jurist of his time, and amply equipped to direct such an inquiring mind as that which he must have found in his youthful scholar. Young Green was an enthusiastic student, and delighted to dig and delve into the abstruse questions which were ever presented to him in the many cases which came to the office in the extensive practice of Mr. Ewing. His term of studentship was much longer than was required by the rules of the court, as he

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did not attain his majority until 1825, and could not have been licensed as an attorney until he was twenty-one years of age. In that year he became an attorney-at-law, and three years later a counsellor. He came to the bar fully equipped to meet all the re quirements of his profession, by a sound legal knowledge, by an intimate acquaint ance with the many abstract principles of the science of which he was to become a most brilliant expo nent. The courts soon learned that in the young advocate was one who was prepared to grapple with the principles found in any case submitted to him, and his fellow- mem bers of the bar feared him as a most formida ble antagonist. He shortly became a lead ing counsellor and ad vocate at the capital of the State, and was em ployed in almost every cause of importance which came before the courts. His practice was very largely made up of arguments in OGDEN cases of an appellate character, before the highest tribunals of the State. In submit ting his argument it was remarked by older practitioners that he never lost sight o£ any point in the case which in any way aided him or his client, and it was once jokingly said of him that in preparing a case for argument on a certiorari he would present at least fifteen points, one of which and perhaps the last would be conclusive, and the others not at all tenable, but that he argued all alike. He was a Whig of the old school, and his party hoped to strengthen itself by inducing