we had a feeble-minded commission appointed to commit him to Lincoln, but we couldn't get his parents to consent. (2) Was arrested July 5, 1918, larceny and "bumming," stole a Ford auto. He had been "bumming" away from home since June 15th. (3) arrested March 19, 1919, larceny, riding in stolen machine; (4) arrested May 15, 1919, larceny, stole $25.00 worth of candy from former employer. Held to the Criminal Court. He is a M. G. moron plus dementia praecox hebephrenia. Peter, twin to John, Boys Court arrests: First, larceny, June 5, 1918, stole an auto; second arrest, March 19, 1919, larceny, riding in stolen machine; his brother Peter was at the wheel. Held to Criminal Court and now serving sentence in the House of Correction. He is a high grade moron plus dementia parecox hebephrenia.

Ju Memoriam

STANLEY E. BOWDLE

DAVID W. BOWMAN

EDWARD K. BRUCE

ASA W. ELSON

MAXWELL V. EMERMAN

ALFRED D. FOLLETT

J. A. GALLAHER

CLEMENT R. GILMORE

CHARLES A. GROOM

JAMES K. HAMILTON

ASAHEL W. JONES

EDWARD KIBLER, SR.

PETER A. LAUBIE

JOSEPH L. MCDOWELL

JOHN OLDHAM

FRANK E. POMERENE

H. C. ROBBLEE

JOHN A. TROETTE

MILLARD TYREE

WILLIAM R. WARNOCK

MEMOIRS

CLEMENT R. GILMORE

By ROBERT C. PATTERSON, of Dayton

Clement R. Gilmore was born at Eaton, Preble County, Ohio, September 5th, 1858, and died at Dayton, Ohio, April 10, 1919. His grandfather, Dr. Eli Gilmore, came with his family from Virginia to Ohio in 1825, and located in Preble County. One of his sons, William J. Gilmore, was then a child four years old. He was reared in Eaton and educated in its public schools. Attaining young manhood, he taught school for a short time, but choosing the legal profession as his vocation, he studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1847. He practiced a short time at Hamilton, Ohio, and then returned to Eaton, where he became a very successful lawyer and acquired a large practice. In 1857 he was appointed to fill a vacancy on the common pleas bench, and filled the office so acceptably that later, in 1867, he was elected judge of the common pleas court, and served with exceptional ability in that office until 1875. In that year he received still higher judicial honors, being elected one of the judges of the Supreme Court of Ohio. This exalted office he filled with distinguished ability for a term of five years. On retiring from the bench, he resumed the active practice of his profession in Columbus, Ohio, and remained an honored, prominent and influential member of the Franklin County bar until his death in 1896.

His son, Clement R. Gilmore, was educated in the public schools of Eaton, and graduated from its high school in the class of 1877. He was ambitious to obtain a still higher education, and entered the University at Wooster, Ohio; but because of ill health he was unable to complete the course in that institution, or to acquire the higher education which he so much desired. He engaged for a

little time in civil engineering. In 1881 he was appointed special examiner in the State Insurance Commissioner's office, and was instrumental in exposing and ridding the state of a scheme of fraudulent insurance which had been operating quite extensively in the state. It was but natural, however, that he, like his distinguished father, should become a member of the legal profession. He studied law in his father's office, and was admitted to the bar in 1888, and practiced law with his father at Columbus until the latter's death. He then went to California and remained there for a short period, but returned to Eaton and practiced his profession there until he came to Dayton in 1903, and entered upon the practice there where he continued in active and successful practice until his health failed a year or so before his death.

In January, 1909, he became assistant prosecuting attorney under Hon. Carl W. Lenz, and was continued in that position under his successor, Hon. Robert C. Patterson, serving most efficiently in that capacity for eight years in all. He took great interest in all that pertains to the advancement of his chosen profession. He was an active member of both the local and the state bar associations and was for a number of years treasurer of the State Bar Association. He was a man of modest deportment and uniformly affable and courteous to the court and to his associates at the bar. As a lawyer he was upright, conscientious and capable, and was recognized by members of the bar and by the public as a lawyer of ability and a man of high character and standing as a citizen, and in his profession. His intellectual activities extended beyond his profession. He was a wide reader of the best literature and was a man of exceptionally high literary attainments. He was a member for a number of years of the Saturday Club, a club composed of a number of gentlemen devoted to the study of literature and of the lives of the great men and women who have figured most conspicuously in the great achievements and events of history. In this club he took high rank. The papers he read were most admirable and were always received and discussed with great interest and pleasure. They were full of information and were of high literary excellence. He had a fund of wit and humor which enlivened his own papers, and the

discussions of papers read by other members of the club. His extensive and discriminating knowledge of books led to his appointment as a member of the City Library Board, where he served most acceptably for several years before his death.

He was a man of fine social qualities, was an ideal gentleman and had a wide circle of friends and admirers. He took a deep interest in and was well informed on all the great political and economic questions of the day, and in the public affairs of the city.

He was married in 1889 to Miss Ellen O. Gardner, of Cleveland, a daughter of George W. Gardner, of that city. His widow and two sons, William Gilmore, of Columbus, Ohio, and Jack Gilmore, of Chicago, and a daughter, Miss Rosanne Gilmore, of Dayton survive to mourn the loss of a most devoted husband and father.

He has passed from among us, and we, his fellow members of the bar, deem it fitting that we should in this public manner pay our tribute to his high character, both as a man and as a lawyer, and express our sincere sorrow at his death.