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A Sketch of the Supreme Court of Ohio. year of the third term, and moved to Cin cinnati, where he formed a partnership with •John Kebler and Judge M. F. Force, under the name of Kebler, Whitman & Force. He brought with him a distingnished reputation for integrity and ability. He ranked soon with the leading lawyers of the Hamilton County Bar, and was engaged in the trial of many important cases. His long career on

the bench, holding court in the several counties of his dis trict, where lawyers of eminent ability were from time to time before him, was a fit training for his new field of activity. Judge Whitman sus tained the reputation he brought from the interior of the State. Mr. Force left that firm in 1866. He had been a distin guished officer in the Civil War, and was elected judge of the Common Pleas in 1 866. Judge Whit man continued his connection with Mr. Kebler till January, JACOB F. 1876, when he was appointed by the Governor a member of the Supreme Court Commission. He soon re signed from the Commission and resumed practicing law in Cincinnati. In 1886 he quit practice altogether. He died in August, 1889. In 1844 he married Elizabeth King, daughter of Samuel King of Wilton, N. H., who is still living in Cincinnati. She is a woman of rare intelligence and culture, nat urally much sought for in social circles, and leading in many social and benevolent or ganizations. They have had two sons,

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Henry Medill Whitman, and Channing Wood Whitman, both graduates of Harvard College. The eldest son died in Cincinnati in 1869. The youngest died in Huddersfield, England, where he was the American Consul, in February, 1890, leaving one son, who has been through Cambridge College, England, and is now a student in Harvard Eaw School. Judge Whitman was a great reader, al ways kept himself well informed about public affairs, in which he took a great interest, and was always well up in the current literature of the day. He was naturally a leader of men wherever he happened to be. His outward man ner was at times somewhat forbidding, but he had a warm heart and was full of sympathy for others. On the bench he was always anxious to see justice done. Some times for the sake of justice he would disregard the nicer technicalities of the BURKET. law. He was a good lawyer and an upright judge. D. Thew Wright was born November 25, 1825; graduated at Yale College in 1847, at Harvard Law School in 1852, and com menced practice in 1852; was a member of the first Supreme Court Commission, being appointed from Hamilton County. He is now engaged in the practice of his profession at Cincinnati. JOHN McCAULEY was a member of the Supreme Court Commission of 1883, ap pointed from Seneca County. He was born in Columbiana County, Ohio, December 10,