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judge John H. Rogers.—Federal Judge
Justice of the Supreme Court of Mon
John H. Rogers of the western district of Arkansas died in a hotel at Little Rock April 17. He went to Arkansas in 1869 from North Carolina, locating at Fort Smith. In 1877 he was elected to the state circuit bench and served
tana. He was a member of the Montana Constitutional Convention in 1889. From 1890 to 1904 he was United States district judge for Montana.
until 1882 and the next year went to
of Sir Henri Taschereau, Canada has
Congress. In 1896 he was appointed United States Judge by President Cleve
Sir Henri, who was born in 1836, was
land.
educated at the Quebec Seminary, and
Sir Henri Taschereau. —— By the death lost one of its most distinguished lawyers.
called to the bar in 1857.
In 1878 he
Ingold K .Boyesen. —— Ingold K. Boye sen, at one time one of the foremost
was promoted to the Supreme Court of
lawyers in the Middle West, died April 20, in Colorado Springs, where he had lived for the last five years. Before going there for his health he was a
became Chief Justice. On account of advancing age he resigned the Chief
member of the law firm of Herrick, Boyesen, Morson & Allen of Chicago, one of the most prominent corporation
Charles Fitzpatrick. He was the author of works on the criminal law of the
firms of that city. He was a brother of the late Hjalmar H. Boyesen, the Nor wegian author.
Canada.
the Dominion, of which he afterwards
Justiceship three years ago, when he was succeeded by the Right Hon. Sir
Dominion and on the civil law of Lower
Edward A. Moseley. — Edward A. Moseley, secretary of the Interstate Commerce Commission, died at Wash
Stephen A. Osborn. — Stephen A. Os ington April 18 after a long illness. Mr. born, a prominent attorney of Denver,
died May 2. He was born in Wisconsin July 25, 1851, was educated at Tabor College, Iowa, and began the practice of law at Brownville, Neb.
In Denver
he was associated with the legal depart ment of the Burlington road for many years. In Colorado he specialized in irrigation law and was an acknowledged
authority. He was connected with many irrigation enterprises.
Judge
Hiram
Moseley was recognized as an authority upon measures designed to insure the safety of railway employees and travel ers, and was instrumental in securing the
Knowles. — Hiram
Knowles of Missoula, Mont., died April 6. He began his career in Nevada in 1862, becoming prosecuting attorney of Humboldt County. In 1865 he moved
enactment of laws requiring the use by railways of safety devices. Born at Newburyport, Mass, on March 23, 1846, he was admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court of the United States, became a member of the Massachusetts Legislature, and had been secretary of the Interstate Commerce Commission since 1887. He was a thirty-second
degree Mason, a standing committeeman of the Massachusetts Society of the
to Idaho, and on to Montana in 1866.
Cincinnati, ex-president-general of the American-Irish Historical Society, and a member of the Society of Colonial
From 1868 to 1879 he served as Associate
Wars and many other clubs and societies.
