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ernor of Porto Rico, Regis H. Post, was
October, 1904, appointed him assistant
eral terms. He became Governor of Kentucky in 1883. Later he was Pro fessor of Civics and Economics at Centre College, Kentucky, and dean of the law
secretary of Porto Rico.
faculty.
made secretary of Porto Rico, he urged Mr. Gill to go to the island, and in
D. Frank Lloyd.—-D. Frank Lloyd, assistant United States Attorney-Gen eral, died June 6 in New Haven, whither he had gone to recuperate from an ill ness. He was about forty-eight years old, and had been in the federal service since 1897, when he became an Assistant
United States Attorney. When he joined the Attorney-General's office he was placed in charge of all the government's customs cases at this port and had marked success, winning more than 60
per cent of the cases in the customs court.
Godfrey Morse.—Godfrey Morse, a prominent Boston attorney, died in Dresden June 23, aged 65. Born in Bavaria May 19, 1846, he was educated in the Boston public schools, and was graduated from Harvard College and Harvard Law School. In 1882 he was appointed by President Arthur a mem ber of the court of commissioners on the
Alabama claims, in recognition of his services in mercantile law.
Library. Gen. R. B. Brinkerhofl”. —Gen. R. B. Brinkerhof‘f, who had an international reputation as a prison reformer, died
at his home in Mansfield, 0., early in June, aged 84. He was a former president of the Prison Congress. He was born in Owasco, N. Y., on June 28, 1828.
He organized and was first president of the Ohio Archaeological and Historical Society, in which office he was succeeded by Rutherford B. Hayes. He was the author of “The Volunteer Quarter master" and “Recollections of a Life time."
J. Proctor Knott. —— Former Governor Knott of Kentucky died on June 18, aged 81, having had a distinguished career. Before the Civil War he was a member of the Missouri Legislature and Attorney-General of the state. He was imprisoned for refusing to take the test
He served
on the Boston School Committee and came on thea Common trustee of Council, the Boston and also Public be— He practised law in partner
ship with Lee M. Friedman, the firm having a large practice.
Judge John J. Jenkins. — Judge John J. Jenkins, federal judge of Porto Rico, who died June 11 at Chippewa Falls, Minn., was born in Weymouth, England, in 1843, and mrne to Wisconsin before the Civil War, serving in most of the battles in Virginia. He formed a law partnership in 1870 at Chippewa with R. D. Marshall, now Chief Justice of Wisconsin. He was elected to the state assembly and was United States Attor turning ney for the to territory Wisconsin of Wyoming. he was made Re— county judge and afterward served for fourteen years in Congress, being for the last eight years Chairman of the Judiciary Committee of the House. He was appointed federal judge of Porto
oath, and was afterward sent to Con
Rico in May, 1910, but worked too hard
gress from Kentucky, serving for sev
and returned home ill last April.
