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McCabe Hyman completed his schooling at the St. Joseph's Parochial School in Carrollton. When he was sixteen years of age, and while his father was Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, he was made a deputy clerk in the clerk's office, and while there studied law at the old Louisiana University, now Tulane, his legal mentor being Hon. Carleton Hunt, who was Dean of the Law Department when he was given his diploma. In 1886 Mr. Hyman became Minute Clerk of the United States Circuit Court and served for two years. Later he became one of the assistant city attorneys. In 1891 he was unanimously selected as Clerk of the Supreme Court, the duties of which he discharged up to the time of his death.

Mr. Hyman was known as a man of wide knowledge, of thorough training in court practice, and of great discretion, and as a man who earned the respect and esteem of all those with whom he came in contact. He was a man of many noble qualities, and was considered a gentleman of the old school, suave, polite, and withal sincere.

MAINE.

ORVILLE DEWEY BAKER.

Orville Dewey Baker was born in Augusta, Me., December 23, 1847, and died August 16, 1908. He graduated from Bowdoin College in the class of 1868 with highest honors, studying law with his father and at the Harvard Law School, from which he was graduated in 1872. In the same year he entered upon the practice of his profession, and followed it devotedly until his death.

In 1883 he was admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court, and in 1885 he became Attorney-General of Maine, serving two terms.

The estimation in which he was held by those best qualified to judge his talents is shown by the following extracts from a tribute to his standing as a lawyer made by a life-long friend: "So great was his conception of legal principles, so accurate was his idea of their relations one with another, so finely ana

lytical was the keenness of his logical mind, that in his hands the common law expanded with society and equity took on new shape. He did much for the science he so dearly loved.

"Graceful in manner, of attractive address, with a pleasing, well-modulated voice, he brought to his work all the externals of true oratory. His diction was rich, at times a prose-poem. But word-painter as he was, he never forgot that the real work of an orator is to convince.

"He believed that work was the price of all success. The royal English that often entranced his hearers was not always born of a night, but was more often the harvest of years of study and of toil. Such men deserve the fame they leave. Orville D. Baker will go down in the history of his state as a man great in whatever he undertook in life because he deserved to be great."

Mr. Baker was President of the Maine Bar Association at the time of his death. He attended the meeting of the American Bar Association held in Portland, in August, 1907.

Mr. Baker lived all his life in the house in which he was born. He had a wide circle of acquaintances and many close friends, who will ever cherish his memory and long mourn his loss.

HILAND L. FAIRBANKS.

Hiland L. Fairbanks was born in Farmington, Me., September 21, 1871, and died at his home in Bangor, February 15, 1909.

Mr. Fairbanks obtained his early education in the local schools and Phillips' Academy, Exeter, where he passed two years, later returning to the Bangor High School, from which he was graduated in the class of 1891. He then entered Bowdoin College, from which he was graduated in 1895. At Bowdoin he became a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity.

Mr. Fairbanks had early selected the law for his profession, and after completing his studies at Brunswick entered the Harvard Law School, from which he was graduated in 1900. He served the city as its solicitor in 1903-1904, previous to which he had for two years been a member of the city council. addition to carrying on his law practice, Mr. Fairbanks was associated with his father in the insurance business.

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During his student days Mr. Fairbanks was well known throughout the state, and, indeed, throughout New England, because of his remarkable ability as an athlete, particularly as a football player. He was possessed of indomitable courage and a determination to overcome whatever might be the obstacles in his way. He was an unselfish and loyal friend, a devoted son and an affectionate and loving husband.

MARYLAND.

CONWAY WHITTLE SAMS.

Conway Whittle Sams was born in Chester, S. C., January 26, 1862, and died at Atlantic City, N. J., where he was temporarily sojourning, September 5, 1909.

Judge Sams was the son of Rev. J. Julius Sams and Mary Whittle Sams, the former for many years being Rector of Holy Trinity Protestant Episcopal Church in the City of Baltimore, Judge Sams always representing that church at the diocesan conventions, in which he took a great interest. He removed to Baltimore at the age of sixteen and entered the Carey School, later taking a special course in the Johns Hopkins University, after which he entered the Law School of the University of Maryland, from which he was graduated in 1884. After his graduation from the latter institution, he attended a special course of lectures on law at the University of Virginia. Judge Sams practised law for a number of years in Baltimore, being a member of the firm of Sams & Johnson, and later entered into politics, being elected to the City Council. In 1892 he was elected a member of the House of Delegates, and on the election of Thomas G. Hayes as Mayor of Baltimore, was appointed President of the Appeal Tax Court. Judge Sams' work in that court was so favorably received that he was retained during the succeeding administrations of Mayors McLane, Timanus and Mahool. In April, 1908, Governor Austin L. Crothers appointed him Associate Judge on the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City, which position he occupied at the time of his death. He was

President of the Maryland State Bar Association in 1906-1907, and was made Chairman of the Committee on Laws of that body in 1906. Prior to his election as President of the Association, he for many years acted as its Secretary.

The following extracts are taken from the memorial minute presented at the services of the Bench and Bar of Baltimore in honor of Judge Sams:

"Judge Sams was a well-read lawyer, of sound sense and discriminating judgment, faithful to his clients, fair and courteous to his brethren of the Bar, respectful and candid in his behavior to the Court. He served the public in the City Council of Baltimore, in the General Assembly of Maryland, and for more than eight years as Chief Judge of the Appeal Tax Court. It was in the place last mentioned that the public at large were best able to take his measure. He there showed himself devoted to the interests of the city, quick to apprehend facts, resourceful in suggestions and plans for the betterment of conditions, just and equable in his dealings with all people, whether rich or poor, who came before him, and intrepid in pursuing whatever course his reason and conscience taught him to be right. He was endowed with a native courtesy which sprang from his genuine interest in his fellow men, with a straightforwardness of thought and speech which was instinctive and invariable, with an openness of mind and sweetness of temper which were unfailing. He did not shirk either labor or responsibility; he was ready to give the best that was in him to whatever he undertook, and all his actions were inspired and regulated by a simple and unaffected piety.

Such qualities as these presaged for him a career of distinction as a judge. Certainly they won for him the affectionate regard of his brethren of the profession of the law, who are taught by their own sorrow at his death to sympathize with the deeper grief of those who were bound to him by the close ties of blood."

MASSACHUSETTS.

LEWIS STACKPOLE DABNEY.

Lewis Stackpole Dabney was born December 21, 1840, on the Island of Fayal, where his father was Consul-General of the United States, and died on May 15, 1908.

Educated at home by private tutors, he was sent, at the age of seventeen, to Harvard College, from which he graduated in 1861. He was a scholar, and much-liked and respected by his classmates; he belonged to the Phi Beta Kappa, the Institute of 1770 and the Hasty Pudding Club.

After college he entered the office of the late Associate Justice Horace Gray, but shortly afterwards volunteered and served in the Second Massachusetts Cavalry and on General Auger's staff until January, 1865, when he resigned and was discharged with honor.

On May 15, 1866, he became Assistant United States District Attorney for the District of Massachusetts, a position which he held for about six months, resigning to become associated with Hon. Richard H. Dana, Jr., in the general practice of the law. After Mr. Dana's retirement he continued to practise alone, and never thereafter had a partner.

His practice was extremely varied. For a long series of years, up to the time of his death, he was constantly before juries at nisi prius; he conducted many equity causes; was engaged in many contests over wills; and was engaged in many important admiralty cases tried in the Massachusetts district. At every session of the legislature he was engaged in hearings before committees and state commissions, and in addition to all this he had a large consulting practice and was trustee in a number of large trusts.

While striving in every fair way to the utmost of his ability for the success of his client, he always regarded himself as primarily an officer of justice, charged with a duty to the court and the community that right should prevail, and that the common law should develop and progress along the true lines. His mind was clear, alert and of quick perception. As a crossexaminer and advocate, and in the presentation of questions of law, he was unsurpassed.

He belonged to the Unitarian Congregation of King's Chapel, and was a member of the Somerset Club and Boston Athletic Association, as well as the Beverly Yacht Club, of which he was for some years commodore.

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