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jealous sister inmate committing the crime; entitled "Triumphs of the American Bar" and then he demonstrated how ingeniously must justly inscribe the name of Ogden manufactured evidence could point suspicion Hoffman high on any monument of rhetoric towards the accused. All presented so elo which that collaborator may provide for com quently to the jurors, that as one of them memorating eloquence and forensic skill. Mr. Hoffman's estate after his death, at afterwards publicly stated, his fellows were so carried away by the force of Ogden Hoff the comparatively early age of sixty-three, man's plea, and by the magnetism of his was scarcely deserving, in a pecuniary way, presence, that they on retirement for consul of being opened for administration. And tation seemed unable to canvass the evidence his widow by his second marriage — a with unbiased judgment. That forensic suc daughter of Samuel L. Southard, acting vicecess, akin to a success of Henry Erskine in president when John Tyler succeeded, upon the Lord Sandwich memorable case, brought the death of Gen. Wm. H. Harrison — was to Hoffman immediate retainers, and an compelled to open for the support of her accession of income most acceptable to one self and young family a school for young who, like many lawyers, " lived well, yet ladies. worked hard, but seemed born with the luck The prestige of the Hoffman family as of dying poor." He was, like Pitt and Fox lawyers was continued by a son through a and Sheridan, constantly hampered with first marriage, — the third Ogden Hoffman debts and harassed by creditors, although of the name, — who served in California as he was free of vices. He ever kept pace Federal Circuit judge for more than a quar with society, and a spontaneous generosity ter-century, "and who dying a year ago is said to have left a son who will be a fourth set that pace. His latest forensic effort was in the contest Ogden Hoffman to follow the professional "footsteps of his illustrious predecessors." over the last will and testament of the mil lionnaire Henry Parish; and his intimates It is a curious commentary upon the eva believed that his exhausting labors in that nescence of a lawyer's fame that in the Apcontest — such lawyers as Daniel Lord, pleton American Encyclopaedia no mention Charles O'Conor, and Robert J. Dillon being is made of those three Hoffmans above men participants on one side or the other side of tioned, — grandfather, son, and grandson, the legal struggle involving subtle questions — while a brother of Ogden Hoffman the second (Charles Fenno Hoffman, who was of incapacity and undue influence — con a poet and journalist of local import) finds tributed to his final illness. Whoever may collaborate in a book to be therein a memorial place.