mined that it has been said of him he never knew when he was whipped.

While not to be classed as of the old school of practitioners, now almost gone, yet he had acquired from his predecessors and has passed over to those of the present time something of the characteristics of the lawyer of the old school. He would have made an enviable record in any department of the law to which he gave his attention. His death was a distinct loss to this Association and to the bar of this State, for then a strong and upright man of exemplary life, and a valuable and distinguished member who always held and consistently followed the highest and best ideals of the legal profession, passed into the Great Beyond.

He was married on July 2, 1857, to Rachel Judkins, who died April 14, 1872. A daughter of this marriage, Mrs. John R. Matthews, of Barnesville, still survives. He was married a second time, October 2, 1873, to Harriet F., daughter of Benjamin and Ann M. Davenport, who survives him and resides in Columbus.

MEMORIAL ON ELI S. HAMMOND

BY KENT J. HAMILTON.

Hon. Eli S. Hammond, late Judge of the District Court for the Western Division of Tennessee, died at New York on the 17th day of December, 1904, in the sixty-seventh year of his age.

Judge Hammond was well known to the Bar and people of Ohio, more particularly those residing or practicing in the territory comprising the Northern Judicial division, where for many years, at frequent intervals, he presided in the United States Courts. His service on the Federal Bench was long continued. Appointed by President Hayes in 1878, he held his position until his death, a period of twenty-six years. Certainly an unusually long term of judicial labor.

When he died, he was the fourth oldest Federal judge in point of commission.

The place of Judge of a Federal Judicial District, under our system of jurisprudence, is one of the very greatest importance. All indictments for violation of the U. S. laws-all bankruptcy and admiralty matters, are decided by the judge holding that position. But in U. S. Circuit Court where the District Judge is also called to hold the court, how numerous, how important, of what magnitude are the controversies that arise, and require decision in the almost illimitable field of law and equity jurisprudence.

When a District Judge is assigned to hold court in states outside his own district, how greatly does the difficulty, responsibility and labor of such a position increase.

During most of the years of his service Judge Hammond was constantly called on to hear and decide cases arising in other states than his own, and was thus required to study and become familiar with the laws and procedure of all those states.

It is unnecessary to say to this body that the responsibilities of such a place are very great.

To adjudge the controversies presented by the throng of suitors that crowded the gates of the Federal courts during his term of office, required patience unbounded, the most exacting industry and great ability.

Judge Hammond was a conscientious man, and gave to the tasks of his position the profoundest care and most exacting investigation.

It was because of his habit of careful study and analysis of all questions submitted to him, that he sometimes seemed to unduly postpone final decision in the handing down of cases. the only criticism ever suggested about him.

This was

As a judge he was faithful and laborious. He was a student "He scorned delight and loved laborious days." He was impartial, courteous, firm and just.

acter.

We remember how, when he first came to hold court in Ohio, we were charmed by his graces of conversation, manner and charAs we came to know him better, he grew in our regard. All that time the shadows of the dismal time of the Reconstruction period, following the Civil War, had not yet passed away, and the old feelings of antagonism, if not hatred, were not yet allayed.

His charming personality, his moderate, conservative and sensible views on all public questions, and his reminiscences rendered his society and conversation most agreeable and instructive.

He had been a soldier of the Confederacy. For four years in the stress of the Civil war, he had bravely and faithfully under Forest, one of the great cavalry leaders of the South, fought on the other side.

But when the war was over he had manfully accepted the situation, and uniting with so many of the other leaders of the South, he had set himself to the work of binding up the wounds left by the war, and to reuniting in a common love of country the so long severed sections of the Union.

He was appointed Federal Judge by that great Ohio soldier, statesman and president, Rutherford B. Hayes, who so ardently desired to allay the bitterness of the war. The selection was most appropriate.

"At the time of his appointment" (I quote from what was said by the bar of Memphis), "the United States courts were nowhere popular in the South. Sectional antagonism and hatreds had not yet died out. The appointment of Judge Hammond was most opportune and fortunate. He was identified by both birth, education, habit and splendid service in the army, with all the sympathies and aspirations of his people. He was a fine lawyer and a courteous, kind-hearted gentleman. With these traditions and qualities carried to the bench, his administration of that court soon popularized it with the people."

We of Ohio remember Judge Hammond as an honorable and upright judge, devoted to the highest traditions of his great office.

He was a generous, courtly, noble Southern gentleman of the old school. He left behind him none but pleasant memories.

He fought long and bravely for a cause he believed to be right. But when the war was over no soldier who had won the blue was more loyal to the old flag or better loved the United States of America, than did E. S. Hammond.

MEMORIAL ON LINN W. HULL

BY HON. EDMUND B. KING.

The bar and the bench of Ohio, as well as this association, have sustained a distinct loss in the sudden death of Hon. Linn Walker Hull, which occurred at the sanitarium in Battle Creek, Mich., on the twenty-seventh day of May, 1905. Judge Hull was born April 9, 1856, in Perkins township, Erie county, Ohio, and his boyhood days were spent upon his father's farm. He was the son of John Linn and Angeline Hull, who were residents of Erie county during most of their lives, his father having come to Erie county when a young man, while his mother was a native of that county. His father was an active man in affairs and a successful farmer, prominent in advancing agricultural interests and several times holding positions as member of the township school board and also the board of trustees and was two terms commissioner of Erie county. His father and mother were both members of the Congregational church of Sandusky, and Linn W. Hull was reared in the society and with the affection of Christian parents and to habits of industry and perseverance which marked the course of his entire life. His school education was acquired in the country school house almost across the street from his father's residence, in the high school at Sandusky, from which he went to Oberlin college, which he attended for about two years; then to Union college, Schenectady, N. Y., remaining only a short time when he entered Cornell University. He was a bright scholar and prominent in all student activities and at Cornell became a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon college fraternity. On the completion of his course at Cornell, he returned to Sandusky and read law for a time in the office of Taylor & Phinney, and afterwards in the office of H. & L. H. Goodwin, and in the years of 1881, 1882 and 1883 he took a law course in the Cincinnati Law school, graduating from that institution in the spring of 1883