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and fifty miles of graded road, the franchises of the court in November, 1881, after an ex of the companies, and about five million tended term of service as a Judge of the acres of land. The dissatisfaction growing Fourth Judicial District. Born at Clifton Park, Saratoga County, New York, Dec. 2, out of the issue of these bonds finally crys tallized in a movement for repudiation, and 1829, his early youth was passed after the in 1860 an amendment to the Constitution fashion of the average American boy of the was adopted which prohibited the passage period. The multifarious duties of a farmer's of any law levying a tax or making other boy, the educational facilities of a district provision for the payment of the principal school, the discipline of character through the responsibilities of

or interest on the a teacher, the private bonds without a refer study of the law un ence of the same to der the direction of a the people. friendly attorney, and Here the matter was • allowed to rest at last the bar, — how many men famous at until about 1877, when the bar have trodden a movement was made this thorny pathway to toward a readjust success and honor! ment of the dishon Judge Vanderburgh ored bond. In 1881 was admitted to the the Legislature passed bar of New York in a law providing for January, 1855, and in the adjustment of the the following year bonds which desig removed to Chicago. nated the judges of After remaining there the Supreme Court a short time, he con as a commission to tinued his journey make a settlement. northwest, until he This act was held un reached Minneapolis, constitutional in State where he formed a vs. Young, 29 Minn. partnership with F. 474, as impairing the R. E. Cornell. obligation of a con WILLIAM MITCHELL. The new firm soon tract, and as an at acquired a large and tempt on the part of the Legislature to delegate its legislative successful business, which continued until 1859, when Mr. Vanderburgh was elected powers. The decision was a very elaborate one, district judge. This position he held un til January, 1882, when he became a mem and was written by Chief-Justice Gilfillan. Subsequently, in Secombe vs. Kittelson, ber of the Supreme Court. He has been 29 Minn. 555, in a decision written by Mr. a resident of Minneapolis since 1856, and is very active in work connected with the Justice Mitchell, the validity of the amend ment to the Constitution under which the church and Sunday-school. William Mitchell was born near Drumbonds were originally issued was upheld, and mondsville, County Weldon, Province of the bonds were ultimately paid, under an ar rangement equally satisfactory to the holders Ontario, Nov. 19, 1832. Removing to the United States in early life, he received his and to the people of the State. Charles E. Vanderburgh became a member education at Jefferson College, Pennsyl