in Company "E," 20th Illinois Veteran Volunteer Infantry, being then only 15 years old. The regiment was attached to the First Brigade, Third Division, 17th Army Corps. He participated in the battles leading up to the siege and capture of Atlanta, in Sherman's march to the sea, the march through the Carolinas, and the return by way of Washington. He was discharged from the army July 16, 1865.

He read law in the office of the late Hon. Henry S. Green, and was admitted to the Bar in Illinois on January 31, 1868. In April, 1869, he opened a law office in Oregon, Missouri, remaining there until the summer of 1871, when he returned to Clinton, Illinois, and engaged successfully in the practice of his profession at that place. In 1876 he was elected State's Attorney of DeWitt County, Illinois, but resigned that position in 1879 to remove to Nebraska.

In 1880 he was appointed City Attorney of Lincoln, Nebraska, for two years. From 1880 to 1883 he was associated with C. C. Burr in the law firm of Burr & Kelly, and from 1884 to 1890 with the late N. S. Harwood and John H. Ames in the firm of Harwood, Ames & Kelly.

Mr. Kelly was the local attorney for the Union Pacific Railway Company at Lincoln, and in 1888 he was appointed general attorney for that road for the State of Nebraska. In January, 1896, he was made general solicitor for the receivers of the Union Pacific System, and on July 1, 1898, general solicitor of the reorganized Union Pacific Railroad Company.

On January 1, 1906, he severed his relations with the Union Pacific Railroad Company and removed to Los Angeles, California. On December 1, 1906, he was appointed general counsel of the San Pedro. Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad Company, which position he held until the date of his death, March 8, 1911. While general solicitor of the Union Pacific System he achieved a national reputation, particularly with respect to the laws relating to interstate commerce. In the interpretation of such laws he was brilliant and masterful and his opinions were universally accorded the highest respect. Particularly inclusive and exhaustive was his grasp of the subject of railroad rates.

Among traffic officials his reputation upon this subject was as high as it was among the members of the Bar upon questions more strictly legal in character. In the railroad world he was regarded as one of the great lawyers of the country.

His was the unusual distinction of winning and retaining the friendship and respect of every one with whom he came in contact. He always held out a helping hand where help was needed, and was universally beloved.

GILBERT DWIGHT MUNSON.

Gilbert Dwight Munson, the oldest son of Colonel Horace D. Munson, was born in Godfrey, Marion County, Illinois, September 26, A. D. 1840. In 1846 he went with his parents to Zanesville, Ohio, where he resided until the spring of 1900.

He was educated in the public schools, and at the early age of seventeen years received a certificate under which he taught school. He also began to read law.

After the first battle of Bull Run he enlisted as a private soldier in the Fifteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry and was promoted through all the grades to that of colonel.

At the close of the war he returned to Zanesville and resumed his law studies. He attended the Law School of Columbia University, New York City, and then entered the office of Marsh & Haynes in Zanesville. He was admitted to the Ohio Bar in 1867, and was also commissioned as the first register in bankruptcy in Zanesville.

He actively and successfully practiced law in the courts of Muskingum and adjoining counties, first alone, then in 1871-74 in partnership with Judge Moses M. Granger and from 1883 to 1894 with Judge John J. Adams.

In November, 1893, he was without opposition nominated and elected Common Pleas Judge for the subdivision of the Eighth Ohio Judicial District and served five years.

In 1900 he removed to Los Angeles, California, and associated himself with Henry A. Barclay under the firm name of Munson & Barclay. Here he continued the practice until his death, May 21, 1911.

CONNECTICUT.

CHARLES ELLIOTT MITCHELL.

Charles Elliott Mitchell died at his home in New Britain, Connecticut, on March 17, 1911, in his seventy-fourth year.

He was born at Bristol, Connecticut. He attended Williston Seminary of East Hampton, Massachusetts, received his degree from Brown University in 1861, studied law at the Albany, New York, Law School and was admitted to the Bar in 1864. He began active practive in New Britain, Connecticut, soon forming a partnership with the late Frank L. Hungerford. In 1870, under New Britain's first city charter, he was appointed city attorney; he was elected to the state legislature in 1880 and re-elected in 1881; he was chairman of the Committee on Incorporations and a member of the Judiciary Committee; with the Hon. John R. Buck, he drafted the joint stock and incorporation laws, which served the state until very recent years.

He became absorbed in the practice of the law of patents and copyrights, soon reaching the front rank of that Bar and attaining national distinction. The unanimous choice of the patent Bar of the country, he was appointed as commissioner of patents by President Harrison in 1889 and served for upwards of two years in that office, accomplishing desired and permanent reforms and making a line of decisions recognized by both Bench and Bar as of the ablest and soundest.

After resigning as commissioner of patents and having added John P. Bartlett to the old firm of Mitchell & Hungerford, he resumed practice in the city of New York under the firm name of Mitchell, Hungerford & Bartlett, later becoming Mitchell, Bartlett & Brownell.

He retired from active practice in 1902, returning to New Britain, Conn., where he lived until the time of his death.

The sterling quality and honesty in purpose, action and character, a personality that won both respect and affection, and a breadth of view and industry of application that resulted in both devotion to his profession and performance of his civic

duties, made Mr. Mitchell an unusual man in his profession and secured for him an enduring place in the love and respect of both the Bar and the laity.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

SAMUEL TUCKER FISHER.

Samuel Tucker Fisher was born in Canton, Massachusetts, February 12, 1855, and died in Washington, in July, 1911. At the age of seventeen he entered Harvard University, graduating four years later, in 1876. He then took a short course in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After several years of scientific work he took the examination for the United States Patent Office, and in 1886 he was appointed fourth assistant examiner. By successive promotions he became principal examiner in 1891. Meanwhile he had studied law and was admitted to the Bar in December, 1887. In 1893 President Cleveland appointed him assistant commissioner of patents. In 1897 he entered active practice of patent law, becoming a member of the firm of Wilkinson, Fisher & Witherspoon.

He was a prominent member of the Patent Law Association of Washington, D. C., and after his death a special meeting was called for the purpose of paying a tribute of respect to his memory. The resolution adopted was, in part. as follows:

"As an official of the patent office he was able, earnest, hardworking and conscientious, courteous to all having business before him, impartial in his judgments, striving always to do exact justice between inventors themselves and between inventors and the public.

"As a lawyer in active practice he displayed marked ability, was characterized by a high sense of responsibility, by integrity, industry, devotion to the interests of his clients and courtesy to opposing counsel. The example of his life and character and of his conduct as a practicing lawyer may well be followed by the members of his profession.

"In his ordinary intercourse with his fellow men he was a congenial companion and a faithful friend."

HENRY MARTYN HOYT.

Henry Martyn Hoyt was born at Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, on December 5, 1856, and died at Washington, D. C., on November 20, 1911. His father was General Henry M. Hoyt, governor of Pennsylvania from 1879 to 1883. He was graduated from Yale in the class of 1878, which included President Taft. Later he studied law at the University of Pennsylvania and in the office of McVeagh & Bispham, and was admitted to the Bar in 1881. Afterwards he practiced in Pittsburgh, being associated with George Shiras, Jr., who later became a justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

Mr. Hoyt was assistant cashier of the United States National Bank of New York from 1883 to 1886; treasurer of the Investment Company of Philadelphia from 1886 to 1890, and president of that company from 1890 to 1893. He practiced law in Philadelphia from 1893 and was appointed assistant attorney-general by President McKinley on June 15, 1897. On the resignation of John K. Richards to become United States circuit judge, Mr. Hoyt was solicitor-general of the United States from February 25, 1903, to March 31, 1909; later becoming counsellor for the Department of State, which office he held at the time of his death. President Taft, at the banquet of the Yale Alumni Association of Washington on February 4, 1911, declared that to Mr. Hoyt, more than to any other man, was due the preparation of the recent proposed reciprocity agreement with Canada; in fact it was while in Canada on this business that Mr. Hoyt was stricken with the illness which resulted in his death.

Mr. Hoyt was a man of most engaging personality; he was the very personification of courtesy and kindliness, and a gentleman in the best sense of the term. His friends were legion, and his death, at the very prime of life, a shock to all. He was a man of very keen perceptions and of tireless energy. As assistant attorney-general, and again as solicitor-general, he had charge of much important litigation on behalf of the government. The words of appreciation spoken by Secretary of State Knox. at the time of Mr. Hoyt's death, deserve a permanent place in the