and formed a partnership with E. W. Fosdick for the practice of the law at Butler, Ind. In 1872 he removed from Butler to Auburn, and in 1873, entered into a partnership with E. D. Hartman, which he continued until 1881. From 1881 to 1892 he practised law at Auburn, and in 1892 he and his son, James H. Rose, formed a partnership which continued until his death, except for the period when his son was judge of the Circuit Court.

In politics he was a Republican, and was present at the meeting under the oaks at Jackson, Michigan, when the Republican party was born. He never held office, although he was a candidate for Circuit Judge in 1876.

He was a man of strong convictions, a lawyer of decided ability, and given to plainness and pungency of speech. He was, moreover, honest, upright and just, and had the confidence and respect of all who knew him.

IOWA.

WILLIAM D. BURK.

William D. Burk was born at Johnstown, Pa., in 1849, and died August 17, 1908.

He was graduated from the law department of the Iowa State University. All his life he was fond of reading, travel and study, and he accumulated a store of legal knowledge and general information, from which he could readily draw for the benefit of his large and important clientele.

Modest and retiring in his disposition, the public work of an advocate at the trial table never had any attractions for him, but his unusual ability as a safe and conservative counsellor was fully recognized by men of affairs, and his services were eagerly sought by large and important interests.

Mr. Burk always declined office of every kind, except that of trustee of the public library, a position which he held for many years. He never married.

In politics he was a Republican. He was at one time a part

ner of Judge J. Scott Richman, and later, of Judge Jerome Carskaddan.

He was not sixty when he died, but he had lived long enough to achieve eminence in his profession and to possess the esteem and confidence of his associates.

KANSAS.

WILLIAM HENRY ROSSINGTON.

William Henry Rossington was born July 31, 1848, at Galena, Ill., and died in the City of Topeka, Kan., on July 19, 1908.

His parents removed to the State of California in 1849, in which state young Rossington passed his boyhood days. Being early instructed by his father, who was a scholar of great attainments, and having also attended the Jesuit Schools of California, he entered Yale at an early age, but owing to the death of his father was compelled to leave before graduation. Upon leaving college he served as a reporter upon the "Philadelphia Press," and reported for that paper the proceedings of Congress for one session. He subsequently located in Davenport, Iowa, as a reporter and journalist, where he became acquainted with that eminent jurist and lawyer, John F. Dillon, then serving as United States Circuit Judge for the Eighth Circuit. Under Judge Dillon's advice, Mr. Rossington went to St. Louis and entered the law offices of Dryden, Lindley & Dryden, and enrolled himself as a student in the St. Louis Law School. He subsequently removed to Kansas, and in the year 1875 entered upon the active practice of his chosen profession at Topeka, Kan., forming a partnership with Charles Blood Smith, of that city, which continued until his death.

Few men ever entered upon the profession better qualified through education and natural ability to attain success than Mr. Rossington. For more than a third of a century he was well known in the courts of the West and to the profession generally throughout the country. He had a genius for clear thinking and logical analysis. Early in his career he was attracted by the chancery practice of the federal courts, and it was before the

chancellor and judge, rather than before a jury, that he was most successful.

His fine instincts, his innate sense of right, his cleanly life, his fathomless mind, his brilliant attainments, and above all, his warm, kindly, all-encompassing heart bound his friends to him as with hooks of steel. His life was as open as the day, and he was as he seemed, a great big, loving, honest man, and in his heart was the love of right, which he carried with him in his daily walks.

Few people have had more friends than Mr. Rossington, or friends more devoted. He was not only a man to be esteemed, but one to be loved by all who knew him, and his high intellectual qualities, his unusual and manifold attainments in many branches of knowledge, commanded respect and homage. His extraordinary social endowments, his clear sense of justice, his lofty regard for unstained and incorruptible honor, his unfailing consecration to the obligation of duty, the warmth and fidelity of his unselfish friendship, and his great kindness of heart, combined to make up a character exceedingly rare and one of priceless value, that rendered his death not only a private grief, but also a public calamity.

KENTUCKY.

JEREMIAH ROGERS MORTON.

Jeremiah Rogers Morton was born in Clark County, Ky., on February 10, 1842, and died at his home in Lexington, Ky., December 18, 1908. Possessed of a good education, in the autumn of 1862 he enlisted in the Confederate army, in Company A of the Eighth Kentucky Cavalry, attached to the command of the late General John H. Morgan, and served throughout the entire war with courage and honor. After the war he studied law at the law school of Kentucky University, and began practice in Lexington, where he continued to live and prosecute his profession. He was elected judge in 1883 to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Judge B. F. Buckner, and, being once re-elected, continued on the Bench for nine years,

until 1892, when he voluntarily resigned and resumed his practice at the Bar.

As a lawyer he was able, learned and fully equipped for service. As a judge he was painstaking, just, upright and without suspicion of partiality or unfairness, and as a citizen and friend was always ready to do his part, standing in his lot and bearing his burden in the conflict of life. In all of these capacities he was an exemplar of patience, courage, integrity and capacity, and was possessed of a most kind and lovable temper that endeared him to all.

He is survived by his widow and one son.

LOUISIANA.

WILLIAM WIRT HOWE.

(President of American Bar Association, 1897-1898.) William Wirt Howe was born at Canandaigua, N. Y., November 24, 1833, and died in New Orleans, La., March 17, 1909.

He was graduated from Hamilton College in 1853, from which college he received, in 1899, the degree of LL. D. He studied law in the City of St. Louis, where he began practice, but soon removed to New York City, where he continued his professional activities.

At the opening of the Civil War he enlisted on the side of the Union, was chosen lieutenant in the Seventh Kansas Volunteers, and served continuously on staff duty, attaining the rank of major.

At the close of the Civil War he resumed the practice of law at New Orleans. He served for a time as judge of the Chief Criminal Court of New Orleans, under appointment by General Sheridan, and was subsequently appointed one of the justices of the Supreme Court of Louisiana, which position he held from 1868 to 1872. In 1897 he was elected President of the American Bar Association, of which for many years he was a prominent and useful member. In 1900 he was appointed United States District Attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana, which office he continued to hold until his resignation in 1907.

In many lines of patriotic and philanthropic effort Judge Howe took a prominent part. From 1897 to 1900 he was President of the Civil Service Commission. He was the fourth President of the Louisiana Historical Association; he served as administrator of the Charitable Hospital of New Orleans; was Treasurer of Tulane University; was one of the incorporators and, at the time of his death, a member of the Board of Trustees of the Eye, Ear and Nose Hospital; was one of the original members of the Association for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals; was the first President and one of the original incorporators of the New Orleans Art Association; was a delegate to and Chairman of the Conference on Combinations and Trusts in Chicago, 1899; was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Institution of Washington.

His activities were no less in church and kindred organizations, and at the time of his death he had been the senior warden of Christ Church Cathedral for thirty-four years.

He was a lecturer of great clearness and power, often appearing before law schools and universities, and was an honored speaker at Bar association meetings in all sections of the country.

Aside from his lectures and addresses, he wrote and published a "Municipal History of New Orleans," "Monograph of Johns Hopkins," "History of François Xavier Martin," "Studies in the Civil Law," and contributed constantly to many law publications.

"A brave soldier, an able lawyer, a capable judge, a publicspirited citizen, a cultured gentleman, he merited and attained the respect of the community at large, the esteem of the members of his profession and the affections of a large circle of friends."

THOMAS MCCABE HYMAN.

Thomas McCabe Hyman was born in Alexandria, La., in 1848, and died in New Orleans, June 28, 1909.

He received his preliminary education in Alexandria, and later the family moved to a country home at Camp Parapet, above Carrollton, where he lived for many years. Thomas