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to do nothing but to choose what I
and the International Law Association
would wish to do."
of London.‘ He is now President of the Connecticut
Chief Justice Hall said :— “Justice Baldwin retires in perfect mental and physical health. His only weakness is a constitutional weakness. The constitution says that he is no longer capable of holding the ofiice. But the constitution is very much mis taken.”
Academy of Arts and Sciences, of the Connecticut Society of the Archaeological Institute of America, of the Trustees of the Hopkins Grammar School of New Haven, and Director of the Bureau of
Simeon E. Baldwin was born Febru ary 5, 1840, at New Haven, educated
Comparative Law of the American Bar Association. He is a member of the American Anti quarian Society and the National Insti tute of Arts and Letters, and a corre
at the Hopkins Grammar School and
sponding member of the Massachusetts
Yale College (A. B. 1861), and after wards studied law in the Yale and Har vard Law Schools. In 1893 he was
Historical Society, the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, and the Institut de
appointed a member of the Supreme Court of Errors of Connecticut, and since
1907 had been the Chief Justice. Before going on the bench he was in active practice at the bar, both in the
Draft Compare of Brussels. Harvard gave him the degree of LL.D. in 1891. Besides having been a frequent con tributor to the transactions of various
societies and to legal or historical peri odicals, both in the United States and
state and federal courts, and occasion
abroad, he has published a Digest of the
ally appeared in important cases in those
Connecticut Reports, “Modern Political
of New York, Massachusetts and Rhode
Institutions,” “The American Judiciary,"
Island, as well as before the Supreme
“American Railroad Law,” and was a co-author of "Two Centuries’ Growth of American Law." Chief Justice Hall, who succeeds Judge Baldwin, was born in Saratoga Springs, N. Y., Feb. 20, 1843, the son of Jonathan and Livonia (Hayward) Hall. He
Court of the United States. He had from time to time served on state commissions for the revision of the education laws, of the system of tax ation, of the General Statutes, and to
simplify and reform procedure in civil actions. Since 1869 he has been one of the Faculty of the Yale Law School, and
has given several hours a week to class room work.
This he was able to begin
and keep up on Saturdays and Mondays, by declining engagements in the Court of Common Pleas; the higher courts not
sitting on those days. He has been President of the New
Haven Colony Historical Society, the American Historical Association, the American Bar Association, the Asso ciation of American Law Schools, the
American ‘Social Science Association,
worked his way through Brown Univer sity, from which he was graduated in 1867 and last June received the de gree of LL.D. Yale has also con ferred the degree of A. M. upon him. He enlisted in the Seventeenth Connec ticut Regiment of Volunteers in 1862,
and was admitted to the bar of Fair field county in 1870. He was made judge of the Court of Common Pleas for Fairfield county in 1877 and held that post till 1889, when he became a
judge of the Superior Court. From this tribunal he was advanced to the Su preme Court in 1897.
