The Green Bag
390 who was a powerful
figure in the
constitutional convention of the early
and former Reporter of Decisions of the Supreme Court of Maine. He was the son of Hannibal Hamlin, Vice-Presi
seventies.
dent during Lincoln's first administra Charles F. Choate. —Charles Francis later
tion. Being graduated from Bowdoin College in 1857, he read law with his
president of the Old Colony Railroad,
father, and was admitted to the bar in
Choate,
formerly
counsel
and
and once a leading member of the Boston
1858.
bar, died May 23 at the age of eighty
of brevet Brigadier-General, he resumed the practice of law in Bangor after the war. Aside from the practice of his profession he found time to do some legal writing, and wrote and compiled a work upon the Insolvency Laws of Maine. He was also the author of a series of biographical articles in the Green Bag on the Supreme Court of
three.
During his presidency of the
Old Colony the policy of consolidating the lines of southeastern'Massachusetts
was carried out, and the consolidated property was leased to the New York,
New Haven 8: Hartford, of which com pany Mr. Choate served as a director. Under his presidency the Old Colony Steamboat Company built the fleet of steamboats which have given wide fame to the Fall River line.
Maine.
Leaving the army with the rank
(7 Green Bag 457, 504, 553; 8
G. B. 14, 61, Ill.) La Fayette Grover.
-—
La
Fayette
R. H. Clarke. —Richard H. Clarke,
Grover, a leading figure of pioneer
one of the founders of the Association
history, former Governor of Oregon,
of the Bar of the City of New York, and
former United States Senator, and one of the last surviving delegates of the
associated with Charles O'Conor in the case of the United States against Jefferson Davis for treason, the Jumel will case and the Forrest divorce suit,
died at his home in New York May 24, at the age of eighty-four. He had known nearly every President of the United States since Jackson, and came of a distinguished ancestry. He was the editor of “The History of the Bench and Bar of New York" and the author of
“Lives of the Deceased Bishops of the Catholic Church in the United States," “The Illustrated History of the Catholic Church in the United States," “Life of Pope Leo XIII," “Old and New Lights on Columbus," and “France's
Oregon constitutional convention of 1857, died at Portland, Ore., May 10, aged eighty-seven. He was a native of Bethel, Me., and was of Pilgrim descent. He studied for two years at Bowdoin
College and studied law in Philadelphia, being admitted to practice in 1850. He emigrated to Salem, Ore., in a vessel which went round Cape Horn, his first
position of public service being as clerk of the federal District Court at Salem. Thereafter he rose rapidly. In the Territorial Legislature he promoted the bill leading to the establishment of Willamette University, of which he became one of the trustees. He became
Aid to America in the War of Inde pendence."
the most important member of the con
General Charles Hamlin. -—- General Charles Hamlin of Bangor, Me., died on May 15, at the age of seventy-three. He was United States Commissioner,
man he bore a large part of the brunt of the conflict leading to the admission into the Union of Oregon by a close
stitutional convention, and as Congress
margin of votes in 1859.
