The Legal World Life Insurance Co., and formerly at the head of the Masonic fraternity of the United States, died at Milwaukee May 7. He had been a leading lawyer of the state, an Assem blyman, Speaker of the lower house, a state senator, and county judge of Milwaukee County. William F. Cooper, formerly a Justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court, died in Nash ville May 7 at the age of ninety. He was a classmate of the late Senator Evarts at Yale, where Alonzo Taft, father of the President, was his tutor. He was of a distinguished Tennessee family and was a brother of Duncan B. Cooper, who was recently convicted in the famous Cooper trial. Hon. William L. Penfield, an authority on international law, died at Washington, D.C., May 9. Before 1897 he held the office of Judge of the United States Circuit Court for Indiana. He then became solicitor for the State Department, in that capacity handling arbitrations between the United States and Santo Domingo, Peru, Hayti, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Salvador and Mexico, securing awards amounting to $2,250,000 for his own country. He represented this Gov ernment in the Pius fund case with Mexico, and in 1903 he appeared before The Hague tribunal in the arbitration between the United States and Venezuela.
Necrology— The Bar Floyd Lawson Scales, one of the ablest and most prominent lawyers of Georgia, died at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore April Henry Clay Nelson, a prominent lawyer and former state senator, died in Ossining, N. Y., April 17, where he was born seventytwo years ago. John M. Gould, who wrote "The Law of Waters," died in Newton, Mass., April 15. He practised law in Boston and wrote books on the United States statutes and on banking. John F. Robinson, who won a wide reputa tion in Maine as an all-round lawyer, died April 30 at his home in Bangor. Few lawyers at the Maine bar equaled him in resource, ingenuity, and energy. He had a large crim inal practice. The Sacramento County Bar Association has drafted resolutions in memory of the late Henry Starr, who died recently at the age of about ninety. Thirty years ago he was one of the leading lawyers of Sacramento. He had held several important offices. Major Albert E. H. Johnson, one of the oldest practising patent attorneys in the
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United States, and at one time private secre tary to Secretary Edwin M. Stanton, died in Washington May 12 in his eighty-third year. Franklin A. Morris, a promising and able young lawyer of Holyoke, Mass., died recently, his death being greatly lamented by his col leagues of the Hampden County Bar, by whom his abilities were held in the highest esteem. Henry D. Macdona, a New York corpora tion lawyer, Arctic explorer, and former newspaper correspondent, has just died in his fifty-fifth year. He was closely asso ciated with the late William C. Whitney and became counsel for the Consolidated Gas Company and for the surface railway system. The death of W. E. Bainbridge of Omaha, a leading lawyer of Nebraska, drew forth fit ting eulogies from his colleagues of the Potta wattamie County Bar Association, which attended in a body the funeral held May 6, several men prominent in public life acting as the pallbearers. James J. Walsh, a former assistant district attorney of New York, who had been elected to Congress in 1896 from the eighth district, and who became Tammany leader of the thirty-first Assembly district, died in New York May 7. He was a magistrate of the Jefferson Market court for four years before his death. Gen. Matthew Calbraith Butler, lawyer, soldier, and a former United States Senator, died in Columbia, S. C., April 14, in his seventy-fourth year. He was a valiant soldier on the Confederate side, becoming a Major-General of cavalry. In 1898 Presi dent McKinley appointed him Major-General in the United States Army. David Turpie, than whom Indiana is said never to have produced a more intelligent man or purer citizen, died April 21 at Indian apolis. He early took rank as a learned and skillful lawyer, and won a place on the state bench. For twelve years he served as a United States Senator and greatly distin guished himself as one of the keenest of de baters and as an authority on the law of elections. Hon. Frank T. Brown, called by the Hart ford Courant "beyond question the foremost lawyer in the state East of the Connecticut River," died April 17 at Norwich, Conn. A graduate of Yale, and former member of the Connecticut Assembly and Constitutional Convention, he had an extremely large prac tice. He was counsel for the Billard inter ests in the Boston & Maine, and also counsel for the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad.
