Graduated at the Boys' High School, New Orleans, February 15, 1858, Mr. Benedict was admitted to the Bar May 31, 1865. Possessed of uncommon clerical talents and proficiency, he had the advantage, in the beginning, of serving as minute clerk in the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Louisiana, at a time when the business of the court, resulting from the disorder and complications at home and abroad of the American Civil War, was of enormous proportions, and was necessarily full of instruction to the student of law and of history.

He married August 11, 1870, Jane West, daughter of the late Charles W. Hornor, and formed a partnership to practice law with his brother-in-law, Joseph P. Hornor, deceased.

The extraordinary diligence of Mr. Benedict, his love of order and system, his capacity for labor and his devoted office habits, his assiduity in the preparation and trial of the cases entrusted to him and the punctuality and fidelity with which he discharged his obligations to his client, gave great value to his services in the new firm. He practiced in the courts of the United States, as well as in the courts of the State of Louisiana, with equal knowledge of the jurisprudence and of the rules of procedure in the two jurisdictions.

With gathering years, Mr. Benedict's disposition drew him constantly into relations of sympathy and of kindly intercourse with his brethren of the Bar. He surrounded himself in his office with young lawyers. He kept up intimate knowledge of the members of the profession. He gave his services freely to his associates when they were needed. When the Louisiana Bar Association was formed, he took a zealous part in the movement, and continued to the day of his death to support it with unabated effort, and to work with public spirit and liberality to establish a law library. He made a model secretary. He yielded to others -again and again to his juniors-candidacy for the offices of honor. He stepped aside in order that the young men might reach them. He was content to remain secretary because that place imposed most duties, and because it allowed him to employ many courtesies, which (knowing so well how to use them as he did) enabled him to contribute to the well-being and happy rela

tions of his fellow members, and to the prosperity of the organization.

William Sommer Benedict was exemplary, tender in all the relations of family. To those who came to him in distress, his goodness was unfailing.

JOHN CLEGG.

Judge John Clegg, a distinguished lawyer and citizen of New Orleans, Louisiana, died in that city October 5, 1908.

He was a native of North Carolina and was born in 1852. He removed to Louisiana with his parents in 1859. His father was Rev. Baxter Clegg and his mother was before her marriage Miss Collins, both being natives of North Carolina.

John Clegg was educated by his father, and in 1872 began the study of law in the office of M. E. Girard of Lafayette, Louisiana, later studying law in the Tulane University, being graduated in 1874, and being admitted to the Bar before the Supreme Court at Opelousas in June of that year.

Mr. Clegg began the practice of law at Lafayette and very soon began to take an interest in political matters. He was secretary of the Senate from 1877 to 1881, and was then made district judge at the age of thirty-one. He served three years and was then elected by the General Assembly judge of the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. He was married in 1882 to Miss Mary Cage, the daughter of Albert G. Cage, of Terrebonne Parish.

In 1892 Judge Clegg came to New Orleans and formed a law partnership with Thomas H. Thorpe, and in 1895, on the dissolution of that firm, he formed a partnership with Lamar C. Quintero. Judge Clegg continued the practice of law since that time in this firm. Judge Clegg's health became impaired from overwork. He was principally a civil lawyer, but occasionally appeared in criminal cases. He was a devoted friend of young lawyers, and was always willing to assist them, and his friendships with them were the features of his legal life.

He was particularly strong as a jury lawyer, though not

voluminous as a speaker. His treatment of the jury was that of a confidential friend, who was willing to leave the facts to them and trust their judgment to do right.

Judge Clegg always took a lively interest in political affairs. He was usually on the side of reform, and took part in the Citizens' League and Jacksonian fights in his city and in a number of other efforts to establish independent party rule.

In social affairs he was both brilliant and popular, and was admired and respected wherever he appeared. He was a great clubman, being at the time of his death vice-president of the Pickwick Club, a member of the Boston Club and of various intellectual and social organizations. He was also an Elk and a prominent Mason, having been at one time an officer of the Grand Lodge. He was always interested in the carnival, and was a great believer in athletics and out-of-door sports, and was president of the Southern Athletic Club for several terms.

He was a member in the State Society of Engineers and various similar organizations. He always devoted considerable attention to school matters, and was in 1907 appointed by Governor Blanchard a member of the New Orleans School Board, although he had opposed Governor Blanchard's election.

Judge Clegg leaves his wife, a brother and a sister.

MAINE.

CHARLES FULLER WOODARD.

Charles Fuller Woodard, a member of the Supreme Judicial Court of the State of Maine, died in Bangor, Maine, on June 17, 1907.

He was born in Bangor, April 19, 1848; attended the public schools in Bangor; prepared for college at Phillips-Exeter Academy; was graduated from Harvard College in 1870, and took his degree from the Harvard Law School in 1872. He was admitted to practice at the October term of the Supreme Judicial Court in 1872, and at once entered upon the practice of his profession, being actively engaged at first in general practice, and later as

counsel for large corporations having litigation and business in the state, until December, 1906, when he was commissioned as a justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of the state. His practice was almost wholly upon the civil side of the court, and was active, constant, laborious and successful.

The brief period during which he held a commission as an associate justice of the court was spent almost entirely under the shadow of an illness which was to end in death, but the short time spent in the performance of judicial duties gave to both Bench and Bar high assurance of future usefulness.

Mr. Woodard's intellectual equipment was strong naturally, unusually so, and his acquirements through the judicious use of his opportunities for cultivation through contact with schools, teachers, books, men and professional work, were the best obtainable. He approached these opportunities in a serious spirit, bent upon making use of all attainable means of cultivation along the lines of his chosen profession.

His qualities as a lawyer and as a man were solid rather than dazzling. Though frequently solicited to enter upon a political career, politics had for him no fascination. He was wedded to the study and practice of law, and in that found an intense satisfaction and reward. He was by no means destitute of ambition, and that ambition was gratified when the judicial appointment came to him, and at a time when he was so seriously ill as to preclude the possibility of any self-seeking upon his part. Of him it was truthfully said: "He is a just man and walks in his integrity."

MASSACHUSETTS.

SAMUEL ORSON LAMB.

(Abridged from Memorial of the Franklin County, Massachusetts, Bar Association.)

Samuel Orson Lamb, at the time of his death and for many previous years president of the Franklin County Bar Association, died at his residence in Greenfield, Massachusetts, March 10, 1908, after a lingering illness of nearly a year's duration.

He was the son of Rev. Amherst and Fanny (Giles) Lamb and was born near Hinesburg, in the town of Guilford, Vermont, October 23, 1821. His father was a Baptist clergyman and preached in the hill towns of Windham County, Vermont, and Franklin County, Massachusetts. His parents could do but little financially toward their son's education, and he was early thrown upon his own resources; and, as was customary in those days in that vicinity, he worked on a farm in the summer and attended school during the winter terms. He was an apt student, a hard worker, and after a few years was an attendant at the Grove Seminary at Charlemont, where he fitted himself to teach in the district schools.

Mr. Lamb came to Greenfield and entered upon the study of law with the late Whiting Griswold, June 1, 1843. Even at this early period of his life he was a strong believer in the tenets of the Democratic party, and so continued during his whole life, and died strong in that political faith. To obtain money for his support, and with a love for the work, he assisted in editing the "Franklin Democrat" while studying for admission to the Bar. In June, 1848, he purchased that paper, and his editorial duties delayed his admission to the Bar until the November term, 1850. He entered into partnership with Mr. Griswold, and the firm of Griswold & Lamb continued until 1854, when Mr. Lamb withdrew, and in 1862 formed a partnership with the late George T. Davis, which continued until Mr. Davis removed to Portland, Maine. For nearly thirty years Mr. Lamb continued to practice alone, and then took as his partner Frank J. Lawler, who had been a student in his office. This partnership continued until Mr. Lamb's death.

After Mr. Lamb disposed of his newspaper in 1851, he gave his attention to his profession, with occasional intermissions. During the Buchanan administration he served as private secretary to his ardent friend, Gen. James S. Whitney, who was collector of the port of Boston. He was a member of the House of Representatives during two terms, and savings bank commissioner for a season, which office he was compelled to resign because of failing eyesight. He was register of probate for two