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The Green Bag

Geeting, John F., a well-known Chicago lawyer, died in Washington, D. C, Feb. 28. He specialized in criminal and constitutional practice. At the time of his death he was editor of the American Criminal Reports and professor of criminal law in Kent Law School.

Henderson, Col. Elliott, a member of the Mississippi constitutional convention of 1890, and a brave Confederate soldier, died at Pass Christian, Miss., Feb. 12, aged eighty.

Holt, Col. Orren Thaddeus, former mayor of Houston, Tex., and a prominent lawyer and banker of that city, died Feb. 7.

Houghton, James Warren, Justice of the Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court, third department, died Feb. 14. He was County Judge of Saratoga County from 1888 to 1899.

Jones, Thomas S., twice District At torney of Oneida country and regarded one of the ablest trial lawyers in central New York, died Feb. 19 at his home in Utica, aged seventy-three.

Kilpatrick, J. D., former president of the Atlanta Bar Association, and a valued member of the faculty of the Atlanta Law School, died Feb. 28.

Major, Charles, author of "When Knighthood was in Flower" and other novels, who died Feb. 13 at his home in Shelbyville, Ind., practised law in Indianapolis and Shelbyville.

Mclntyre, James William, chief of the publishing department of Little, Brown & Company of Boston, who died Jan. 9 at his home in Newton, Mass., was a master of his profession, and his efforts contributed in no small degree to the maintenance of the prestige of his firm both in law and in general publishing. An appreciative memoir of him, written by Dean Wigmore, appeared in 7 Illinois Law Review 440 (Feb.).

Miller, Joaquin, the "Poet of the Sierras," who died Feb. 17, in early life practised law a short time on the mining frontier in California and was for some years on the bench as a county judge in Grant county before he took to writing.

Pope, William H., formerly one of the most famous criminal lawyers of Texas, author of the "Jim Crow" law when he served in the state senate, and later state district judge, died at Waco, Tex., Feb. 15.

Valliant, Leroy B., former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Missouri, died March 4 at Greenville, Miss., aged eighty-four years. He was elected a member of the state Supreme Court in 1898 and served continuously for almost fourteen years.

Woodford, Gen. Stewart Lyndon, former Minister to Spain, died March 14 at his home in New York City, in his seventy-eighth year. He was assistant United States Attorney of New York, afterward serving with distinction in the Civil War. He was elected Lieutenant-Governor in 1866, United States Attorney for the southern district of New York in 1877, and later, member of the Greater New York Charter Commission.

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