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Judge John J. Orr, the Nestor of the bar of Carroll County, Ky., died July 27. He re ceived his legal education at the University of Louisville, and was three times County Attorney and at one time County Judge.
heart disease Aug. 9. Two years ago he was nominated by the Democratic and Prohibi tionist Parties of Dauphin County for state senator, but retired before election on ac count of sickness.
Lansing Hotaling, one of the best known of the older generation of Albany lawyers, who died July 22, had been district attorney and assemblyman, as well as a learned advocate and an energetic and patriotic citizen.
Abram X. Parker of Potsdam, N. Y., aged seventy-eight, one of the most distinguished public men of northern New York, is dead. He served in the Assembly in 1863, and in 1890 received the appointment of Assistant Attorney-General of the United States, being the first incumbent of that office. He was identified with leading industrial and educa tional institutions, and at the time of his death was president of the Clarkson Memorial School of Technology.
Abner Harrison Davis, clerk of the United States Circuit and District Courts in Portland, Maine, from 1876 to 1903, when he resigned on account of ill health, died July 25. He was born in Farmington, Me., in 1834 and graduated from Bowdoin College in 1860. Goodwin Stoddard, who was one of the most prominent lawyers in Connecticut, died July 26 at his home in Bridgeport, Conn. He was graduated from the Albany Law School in 1867, and had practised in Bridge port for more than forty years. The Rochester Bar Association met in July and adopted resolutions on the death of Frederick W. Smythe, a well-known lawyer who was killed near Rochester, N. Y., Aug. 1, by the overturning of an automobile. Mem bers of the Monroe County Bar Association also took action. John Goode, eminent as lawyer, statesman, and soldier, died at his home in Norfolk, Va., on July 14, at the advanced age of eighty years. Mr. Goode became a member of the Virginia legislature at the age of twenty-one. He was three times elected to Congress. Mr. Goode was one of the ablest lawyers that Vir ginia has produced. Milton A. Candler, one of the most promi nent men in Georgia, soldier and lawmaker, died at Decatur, Ga., Aug. 8, at the age of seventy-two. Mr. Candler was elected to Congress in 1879 at the close of the recon struction period and at the expiration of his term was re-elected. He also served several terms in the legislature. George B. Orr, attorney for the Santa F^ Railroad at Atchison, Kan., was drowned at San Diego, Cal., July 21, in sight of his bride of a month. Watching the breakers on Lajolla Beach, he remarked that he would lie there until the waves carried him out. A few minutes later a breaker took him out to sea. He was caught by the undertow, despite the fact that he was a strong swimmer. William C. Farnsworth of Harrisburg, Penn. and New York, a well-known corporation lawyer and former State Corporation Clerk, died suddenly at his home in Harrisburg of
Prosecutor Ernest H. Koester, recognized as one of the best criminal lawyers in New Jersey, died at his home in Hackensack, N. J., Aug. 2. He was born at Norristown, Pa., in 1855, and studied three years at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. He was District Attorney of McKean County, Pa., for three years, afterward moving to Hacken sack, where he found a lucrative criminal law practice. In 1900 he was appointed Prosecutor and reappointed in 1905. He had never been himself since Gus Eberhardt threatened his life after he had been given a thirty-year term in state's prison for the selfconfessed murder of his aunt. William Brown, one of the leading attor neys of Illinois, and late counsel for the Chicago & Alton Railroad, died at Jackson ville, Fla., July 25, aged seventy. He was a graduate of Illinois College and of Missouri University, and admitted to the bar in Jack sonville in 1861. He was one of the solicitors for the Wabash Railroad and later became a member of the law firm of Beckwith & Brown, Chicago, in 1887, Beckwith being head coun selor for the Alton. Upon his death Brown succeeded him, holding the position until his resignation in 1905. In his earlier years he was city attorney and state's attorney for the first judicial circuit in 1872, and state senator from 1872 to 1874. He was a leader in Democratic ranks. James O. Troup, a prominent lawyer of marked ability, died at his home in Bowling Green, O., July 20. Two years ago he was president of the Ohio State Bar Association, and for many years was one of the state bar examiners. He was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, May 11, 1845. When ten years of age he worked in the coal mines around Evansville, Ind. Later he secured some schooling and put himself through Oberlin College. Later he was a trustee of the college for eight years. He became superintendent of the Perrysburg schools, studied law with Judge Asher Cook and in 1873 was admitted to the bar. He served two terms as prosecuting attorney of Wood county, and he handled a large amount of litigation for the Standard Oil Company in Ohio.
