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York, in his eighty-seventh year, For more than fifty years he was regarded as one of the ablest members of the New York bar, not as a court lawyer, but as an expert of great knowledge and sagacity
in intricate matters of constitutional and Obituary
railroad law. Many actions of great importance were won upon briefs which
James E. Hays. — James Eyre Hays, prominent as a corporation lawyer in New Jersey, New York and Philadel
he had prepared. He retired from active practice many years ago. Yale conferred upon him the degree of LL.D. in 1883.
phia, died June 29 in the last-named place, aged sixty-eight. He was the New Jersey counsel for many well
known corporations and practised in New York city from 1899 to 1904.
Solomon Schoyer. — Solomon Schoyer
died at Pittsburgh July 3, aged seventy nine. He was one of the best known attorneys at the bar and spent the greater part of his life in the practice of corporation law, being known as an
General William H. Koontz.—Gen eral William Henry Koontz, lawyer, orator and former Congressman, died at Somerset, Pa., July 4, in his eighty-first
year.
He was elected District Attorney
of his county when twenty-six years of age. In Congress, he took an active part
in the Johnson impeachment proceed ings. For years he maintained an active interest in Republican politics and in
authority throughout the state. For many years he was associated with John
1898 was elected to the state House of Representatives and re-elected in 1900.
P. Hunter, the firm building up an ex tensive practice.
the contest against M. S. Quay and
Justice Frank A. Hooker. — Frank A. Hooker, Justice of the Supreme Court of
Michigan, a resident of Lansing, Mich., died suddenly July 10. He was born at Hartford, Conn., in 1844, and was gradu ated from the University of Michigan
in 1865. Before being appointed to the
In those sessions he took an active part in in 1901 was defeated for Speaker of the House by one vote, being the nominee of a combination of anti-Quay men. General Koontz was noted as an ora tor and lawyer. He was a director in
banks and railroads and coal companies.
Supreme bench in 1892 to fill a vacancy,
Eugene F. Ware.— Eugene Fitch Ware, Pension Commissioner under Roosevelt,
he practised law in Bryan, Ohio, and
died suddenly of heart failure at Cas
Charlotte, Mich. He was elected Su preme Justice for ten-year terms in
cade, near Colorado Springs, July 1. Mr. Vare was seventy years old. He was born in Hartford, Conn., in 1841, and at an early age removed with his
1893 and 1903. During 1902 and 1903 he was Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Charles F. Southmayd.—Charles F. Southmayd, a law partner of the late Senator Villiam M. Evarts and of Hon.
Joseph H. Choate, died July 11 in New
parents to Iowa and obtained his edu cation in the public schools of Burling ton. When the Civil War broke out he enlisted in the First Iowa Volunteer Infantry, later serving in the Fourth Iowa Cavalry and as captain in the
