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Phoenixville board of education, died sud denly August 18, at the age of about fortyfive. The first negro lawyer to be admitted to the bar of Illinois, Lloyd Garrison Wheeler, is dead. He was born in Hillsboro, Ohio, in 1849. He had been business agent of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute since 1903. Mr. Wheeler died at Tuskegee, August 28. John C. Pegram, a noted lawyer of Provi dence, R. I., president of the Rhode Island branch of the American National Red Cross, and identified with the principal financial institutions of that city, died Aug. 11. He was sixty-seven years old and was born at Owensboro, Ky. Alonzo W. Church, whose attainments as a lawyer and as a man of high intellectual abil ity were recognized throughout the country, died at his home in Newark, N. J., Aug. 12. He was once Librarian of the United States Senate, and had been general counsel for the Chicago & Alton Railroad. Col. Charles Eaton Creecy, a lawyer of marked ability and polish, of Washington, D.C., died at Atlantic City, N. J., on Aug. 9. He had practised before the Supreme Court of the United States, the Court of Claims and committees of Congress, representing the largest shipbuilding concerns in America. Hugh C. Ward of Kansas City, Mo., the wealthy law partner of Governor Hadley of Missouri, died of apoplexy Aug. 15 in a private sanitarium in New York City. He was fortysix years old. The Young Women's Christian Association of Kansas City lately received $25,000 from Mr. Ward, the last of many acts of benevolence. William F. Carr, one of the best known corporation lawyers in Cleveland, died in that city September 1, after an illness of four years. He was born at Canal Fulton, Ohio, in 1849. He was admitted to the bar in 1871, and shortly after being admitted to the Ohio Bar Association he became its president. The study of corporation law was his chief pleasAlbert Gerald, an able young lawyer of Providence, R. I., who had achieved con siderable success in his profession, was shot under circumstances which the coroner said indicated suicide, on August 19. He was educated at Brown University and Harvard Law School, and was a member of the firm of Edwards and Angell. No reason is known for the act. Alexander Grant, a lawyer and financier of Newark, N. J., died there August 17. He was fifty-six years old. Mr. Grant was edu cated at the Newark Academy and at Harvard University. He was admitted to the New
Jersey bar in 1882. He was a member of the American Bar Association and one of the founders of the Lawyers' Club of New Jersey. Since 1895 he had been counsel for the Franklin Savings Institution. A prominent young San Francisco lawyer, Frank G. Drury, died August 14, of nervous prostration. He was born in Smartsville, Yaba county, Cal., in 1869. For several years he was associated with General James F. Smith and Judge F. J. Murasky in the law business, and later entered into partnership with C. W. Lynch. He held one political appointment as assistant prosecuting attorney in Police Judge Joachimsen's court. One of the oldest practising attorneys in Vermont, Harvey K. Fowler, died of apoplexy at his home in Manchester, on August 17. He was one of a family of thirteen children, having been born in Poughkeepsie, N. Y., January 1, 1818. He was admitted to the Vermont bar in 1842. Since that time he had Practised continuously. He was Judge of rebate and Registrar of Probate for twentyseven years. Col. William Nutt, formerly state senator and trial justice, died August 31 at his home in Natick, Mass. He was born August 5, 1836, at Topsham, Vermont. He was ad mitted to the Middlesex bar in 1868, and then began a long and honorable career as a lawyer, holding many positions of public trust. He helped to free Kansas and to form the Re publican party, and was offered the United States Senatorship from Virginia by the "car pet bag" government, but declined it. The death of District Attorney William L. Ammon of York, Pa., whose body was found in a stable loft August 24, is variously ex plained as due to heart failure, or possibly to suicide. Mr. Ammon, for fifteen years secre tary of the Standard Building and Loan Asso ciation of York, had misapplied large sums of the funds of the association, according to his own admission made on the night before his death. He was elected county District Attorney in November, 1907. Stephen Moody Crosby died at North Cohasset, Mass., August 31, at the age of eighty-two years. He was born in 1827, and was graduated from Dartmouth College in 1849, and from Harvard Law School in 1852. He was a member of the Massachusetts lower house in 1869, and of the state senate in 1870-71. Actively interested in several bank ing and other institutions, he was also president of the New Hampshire state branch of the Order of Cincinnati. Samuel C. Miller, an aggressive, forceful lawyer of Kansas City, who had held many positions of trust there, died at Colorado Springs Aug. 13, where he had gone for the benefit of his health. He was forty-eight years old. In 1896 he was elected County
