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and Interior by President McKinley, but declined the honor.
Nash, Edwin .4. —Judge Edwin A. Nash died at Geneseo, N. Y., July 23, at the age of seventy-five. He was dis trict attorney from 1869 to 1873; county judge from 1878 to 1896, and Justice of
the Supreme Court of New York, and
11.
For nine years he was head of the
department of English studies, history.
and law at Annapolis.
He afterward
was a regular lecturer at the Naval War College and assistant secretary of the Navy from 1890 to 1893. Later he practised law in New York City. Pro fessor Soley was counsel for Venezuela in
the Venezuela-British Guiana boundary Appellate Division, Fourth Department, from 1896 to 1906. Penrose,
Clement Biddle. — Former
Judge Penrose of the Orphans' Court of Philadelphia, who was recently succeeded by Judge John Marshall Gest, died
dispute in 1899. He wrote a history of the United States Naval Academy, 1876;
“Foreign Systems of Naval Education," a government report, 1880; “The Block ade and the Cruisers,” 1883, and numer ous other works.
Sept. 4. He was born in 1832, and was appointed to the bench in 1878, after twenty-five years’ practice at the bar.
Townshend, John. —John Townshend. who rian subjects, wrote books died oninlegal New and York antiqua' City.
Richardson, James B. — Judge James B. Richardson, dean of the Massachu
Aug. 11.
setts Superior Court, died Aug. 30, at the
Judicature in the State of New York as
age of seventy-nine.
He was corpora
tion counsel of Boston in 1889, being raised to the superior bench in 1892. Shepard, Edward M. — Edward M. Shepard, a leading member of the New
He was the author of “New
Practice of Civil Actions in Courts of Established by the New Code of Pro cedure" (1848), which ran through ten editions, and of “Libel and Slander" (1868), which went though five editions lValker,
Sir Samuel. — Sir
Samuel
York bar, prominent in Democratic politics, and not long ago one of the chief
candidates for United States Senator, died July 28 of pneumonia, at the age of sixty-one. He was head of the firm of Shepard, Smith & Harkness, 128 Broad way. His absorbing pursuits were litera ture, politics and the law. He was a prolific writer, producing many schol arly monographs on social, economic and political subjects. He was also the author of a life of Martin Van Buren. Smithers, William T. ——William T. Smithers, secretary of state of Delaware, and considered the best orator among the state Republican leaders, died Sept. 15. He had been a memberof the Dela ware constitutional convention of 1897.
Soley, James Russell. —Vell-known as a writer on naval affairs, Professor James R. Soley died in New York, Sept.
“"alker, Lord Chancellor of Ireland, died Aug. 12 in Dublin. Born in 1832,
his career was built up in Ireland. In 1892 he was made Lord Chancellor, hav
ing filled the offices of Solicitor-General and Attorney-General of Ireland.
Wellford, Beverly Randolph. -— Judge Beverly Randolph Wellford, for thirty‘ three years judge of the circuit courts of
Richmond, Va., died Sept. 19 at the age of eighty-two. During the Civil War he was connected in a legal capacity with the Confederate Var Department. Wister, W'illiam Rolch. — William Rotch Vister, an honored member of the Philadelphia bar, died in August at a ripe age. He was counsel for several
large Philadelphia companies.
He had
done much for the promotion of cricket in this country.
