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The Supreme Court of New Jersey. Assembly. In 1844 he was a member of the Constitutional Convention, and aided materially by his wisdom and good judgment in the perfecting of the Constitution, pre pared by that body, composed of the very best men of the day. In 1855 he was made an As sociate Justice; but he held the position only three years, when he was obliged to resign in consequence of ill health. In 1873 his repu tation as a sound jurist

had become national, and he was made one of the judges of the Alabama Commis sion; but after a ser vice of two years he was obliged to resign from that body. He was often called upon to serve his State in positions where tal ents of a peculiar order were required. But in the latter part of his life, when these honors came oftener, he was obliged to re fuse them all. He died on July 17, 1875, at his residence in Newton. When in full practice it is said that he pre pared himself for the trial or argument of GEORGE S. a cause, by first writ ing out his adversary's brief and then demolishing it by his own; and those who had an opportunity to judge de clared that the opposing brief as i^ came from his hands for this purpose was generally bet ter and stronger than the one actually written by his adversary. In the trial of a cause he was a formidable opponent; he seemed always prepared for any and every point which could be brought against him. He was never caught unprepared; his mind was peculiarly clear, calm, and judicious. No man, probably, ever sat on the bench with a cooler head and

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a better balanced mind. He was in every sense a model judge. His opinions were al ways listened to with the greatest respect. If there were any one feature of his mental fabric more prominent than any other, it was his great energy of character. Notwithstand ing his continuous ill-health, he was enabled through this indomitable energy to accom plish wonders. His correspondence, espe cially during the civil war, was enormous; he was not a politician in the ordinary sense of that word, but he was a high-minded, whole-souled patriot, and, impelled by his love of country, he was constantly devising plans through which to serve the Republic, and these plans were universally acknowl edged to be the very best which could be concerted. He was a man of enthusiasm in whatever he under took, and he never engaged in any enter prise without first ma turely considering all the arguments for and against it. Once hav WOODHULL. ing given it the bene fit of his support, he threw himself into the matter with all the force of his nature. Edward W. Whelpley was a Morris County man, born at Morristown in 181 8, and de scended from the very best ancestry ever found in New Jersey. His father was William A. Whelpley, a practising physician of great talent and high character; and his mother was a daughter of Gen. John Dodd, of Bloomfield, in Essex County, New Jersey. The Dodd family has given some most remarkable men to New Jersey, in all the ranks of cultured,