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director in many corporations and finan, Francis T., Attorney-General of Indiana from 1882 to 1886, died Mar. 8, aged seventy-four. He was long a leader of the Democratic party in Indiana. Jordan, Judge James H., of the Indi ana Supreme Court, died April 5. He had served on the Supreme bench since 1894. Lawson, Judge Thomas Goodwin, a member of the Georgia Constitutional Convention of 1877, died at his home in Eatonton, Ga., Apr. 16. He was a member of the Fifty-second, Fifty-third, and Fifty-fourth Congresses, and a trus tee of Mercer University. Livingstone, Col. Knox, president of the South Carolina Bar Association, died Mar. 22. He had served in the state legislature. Malcolm, Sir Ormond Drimmie, thirteen years Chief Justice of Bahama Islands, died recently at home in Nassau, the Bahamas. retired from the bench in 1910.
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Mouton, Charles Homer, former Lieutenant-Governor of Louisiana, died at Lafayette, La., Mar. 16, aged eightyeight. He was admitted to the bar in 1844, was a leader in the opposition to the Know Nothing Party, and took an active part against the Louisiana lottery. He held many important political posi tions. Noble, Gen. John Wilkock, Secretary of the Interior in President Harrison's Cabinet, died in St. Louis, Mar. 22, aged eighty. He was made United States Attorney at St. Louis by President Johnson, and later had charge of much of the important litigation in St. Louis.
Norton, Judge N. W., former president of the Arkansas State Bar Asso ciation, died at Forrest City, Ark., Mar. 7, aged sixty-two. He had served at various times upon the Supreme and Circuit Court bench as special judge, and at various times had been men tioned as a probable candidate for Asso ciate Justice of the Supreme Court and also for the gubernatorial office. Page, Charles, of the San Francisco law firm of Page, McCutcheon, Knight & Olney, one of the country's greatest admiralty lawyers, a commanding figure in the progressive life of California, died on Feb. 26. He was graduated at Yale in 1869, and was president of the Mer cantile Title, Trust and Insurance Com pany and a director of the Firemen's Fund Insurance Company. Price, James L., Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio, died Mar. 11. He was admitted to the bar in 1862 and practised at Carrollton, O., for a few years, before going to Lima to reside and practise. In 1895 he was made judge of the Circuit Court of Ohio, and since 1901 had been Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. Robertson, Judge James H., one of the best known lawyers of Texas, and a member of the legislature for several terms, died at Austin, Mar. 2. He had served as Mayor of Austin. Stevens, John S., president of the Illinois Bar Association in 1905, died at Peoria, Ill., Mar. 4. He served as postmaster of Peoria under President McKinley, and was regarded as one of the ablest corporation attorneys in cen tral Illinois. Wilson, C. C., Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Utah from 1866 to 1870, died at his home in Kewanee, Ill., Mar. 10, aged eighty-five.
