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The Law School of the University of Pennsylvania. E. Spencer Miller was born in 18 18. He was graduated at the College of New Jersey. After some years of practice in Maryland, and afterwards in New Jersey, he was admitted to the Philadelphia Bar, on May 6, 1843. From then until the day of his sudden death, March 6, 1879, he was engaged in active practice.

He was a clear and accurate thinker, untiring in energy, and a very! forcible speaker. Pro fessor Mitchell char acterized him as the most successful lec turer that the Bar of Philadelphia has ever produced. One who stood very near to Pro fessor Miller during the later years of his life, and who was exceptionally well quali fied to do justice to him, thus sums up the traits of his charac ter: —

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he raised and commanded a battery, which he took into the field for the defence of his Stale. In 1847 he published a 'Treatise on the Law of Par tition by Writ in Pennsylvania,' and in 1856 edited the second edition of Sergeant's ' Treatise on the Lien of Mechanics and Material Men in Pennsyl vania.' In 1849 he published a small collection of fugitive poems entitled ' Caprices,' which well deserved a circulation beyond the few copies which were distributed among his personal friends. In prose literature, also, he was a ready and graceful writer. He was noted for his high-minded and chivalrous bearing in all the relations of life."

P. Pemberton Mor ris was born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, in 181 6. 'He was graduated at George town College. He studied the law in the office of the Hon. Job R. Tyson, and was admitted to the Bar of "Mr. Miller, as a law Philadelphia on Feb. yer, attained a very high 8, 1840. In 1849 he standing among his con published a learned temporaries. He was treatise on the Law of distinguished for his great Replevin, which has integrity, intrepidity, legal ever since been re erudition and skill, as garded as of high au well as for his faithful J. 1. CLARK HAKE. thority. In 1856 he ness and untiring indus annotated Mr. Smith's try. He was a close thinker on all subjects and a deliberate and careful work on the Law of Landlord and Tenant. speaker, and added to these characteristics a He was for many years engaged in active pungent and refined wit. The great facility which practice, mainly on the equity side of the he possessed for turning instantly from even the courts, and those who were so fortunate as pleasures of life to the most serious work was a to be his clients always found in him a sound remarkable trait; and no less so was the tenacity and judicious adviser. with which he clung to any course in the conduct Edward Coppee Mitchell was born in Sa of legal work upon which he had deliberately vannah, on the 24th of July, 1836. He was entered. "Although he had little taste for the arena of graduated from the University of Pennsyl politics, he nevertheless served twice as a member vania in 1855, and came to the Bar in 1858. of the City Councils, and was always ready to He rose rapidly in the profession until, as Mr. Justice Mitchell said, he became a master resist unwise or corrupt legislation. "During the war for the integrity of the Union, of Real Estate Law, and " for the combina