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conservation of his rights and privileges, the judicial presence in this instance, adds to the dignity of the judicial position.

Hon. Elliott Anthony-the jurist to whom allusion is made in the foregoing paragraph-came to Illinois, immediately after his admission to the bar of New York State in 1851, and since 1852 he has been a member of the Chicago bar.

He was born in the town of Spafford, Onondaga County, New York, June 10th, 1827. As a boy he is said to have had an intense liking for books, and he developed early an ambition to enter professional life. His father's farm however demanded a considerable share of his attention up to the time that he became eighteen years of age, and in consequence of this demand his attendance at school was somewhat desultory and irregular. Determing at this time to secure a classical education, he entered Cortland academy, where he spent two years fitting himself for college. At this institution, then one of the renowned academies of Central New York, he applied himself to study to such good purpose, that when he entered Hamilton college in 1847, he was able to secure admission to the sophomore class. In 1850 he graduated with honor from Hamilton college, and at once commenced the study of law, with Professor Theodore W. Dwight, at a later date president of the Columbia Law School of New York City.

In the summer of 1851, he was admitted to the bar at Oswego, New York, and soon afterward sought a field for professional labor in the west. He first located at Sterling, Illinois, where he was engaged in the practice one year. At the end of that time he returned to New York and was married to Mary Dwight, sister to his law preceptor, and a granddaughter of President Timothy Dwight of Yale College. After his marriage, he returned to Illinois and changed his location from Sterling to Chicago, where he has achieved the distinction in professional and public life, to which his superior attainments, his high character and indefatigable labors entitled him. As a young lawyer he exhibited great force of character, energy and industry, along with superior educational and natural qualifications for his calling. These constituted the principal endowments with which he began professional life. When he opened an office in Chicago, a copy of Blackstone's Commentaries constituted his library, and a very limited amount of money represented his entire fortune. The obstacles which he had to overcome, were therefore of that character which accustoms men who have well defined aims and fixed purposes in life, to self sacrifice, and which leads to the fullest development of their resources. They were of the character which develops strong, self reliant, and courageous men, who become moulders of public sentiment,

and by common consent, fit persons to assume important responsibilities, and become representatives of the people in the conduct of public affairs.

So closely did Mr. Anthony apply himself to study, after he had once fairly entered upon his professional career, that within two years from the time that he had located in Chicago, he had prepared and published a digest of the Illinois Supreme Court reports which was received with favor by the bar of the State, while at the same time he had established himself successfully in business as a practitioner.

In 1856 he was elected City Attorney of Chicago, and sometime afterward was called upon to fill the important position of Corporation Counsel.

The Galena & Chicago Railroad Company made him its general soliċtor after he had devoted something like a dozen years to active practice, and he retained this position until this pioneer Illinois railroad became a part of the Chicago & Northwestern Railway system. This consolidation of railroad interests occasioned litigation of a kind with which the western courts had had little, if anything to do, prior to that time. The non-consenting stock and bondholders of the Galena & Chicago corporation, brought an action to have the agreement of consolidation set aside, and Judge Anthony was retained to take charge of the case

in their interest. Acting in this capacity he became one of the most conspicious figures in a suit at law, involving questions of vast importance to the railroad interests of the United States. On behalf of his clients, Judge Anthony contested the legality of the consolidation in both the Supreme Court of Illinois and the United States Supreme Court. His argu

ments are declared to have been a masterly presentation and analysis of the law applicable to the points at issue, and his clients were entirely successful in securing full recognition and protection of their interests.

In 1862 he was chosen a member of the convention called for the purpose of revising the constitution of Illinois, but sat through its sessions with the political minority party, which had but little to do with shaping the provisions of the instrument submitted to the people for adoption, and defeated by an overwhelming majority. In 1870 another convention was called for the same purpose, and of this body Judge Anthony was also a member, under different and more favorable circumstances. The political party with which he has affiliated since its organization, the minority party in the convention of 1862, controlled the Constitutional Convention of 1870. He was, therefore, in a position to exercise an important influence in shaping the organic law of the State. His speeches on the powers of the convention attracted general attention to his broad knowl

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edge of the subject under discussion and also to his familiarity with constitutional law.

He was made chair

man of the Executive Committee of the convention, and was one of the men who took an exceedingly prominent part in framing and sustaining, upon the floor of the convention, the provisions of the present State constitution.

In 1880 he was elected one of the Judges of the Superior Court of Cook county, and re-elected to the same office in 1886. In this position he has become recognized as a leading jurist, in next to the largest of the cities of the United States, and this entitles him to further recognition as one of the able jurists of the country.

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While giving close attention to the business of his profession, during his long term of service as a member of the Chicago bar, he has also found time to render valuable services to the public in various ways. Chicago Law Institute, with its splendid library, and other facilities for broadening the knowledge and elevating the standard of the legal profession in Chicago, is largely indebted to Judge Anthony for its existence, as he was the author of its original charter, and the chief agent in securing its incorporation. In aiding to establish the public library of Chicago, the public parks of the city, and in the encouragement and promotion of public improvements generally, he has always been conspicuously active.

He participated in the formation of

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the Republican party in Illinois, and has always been a warm supporter of its policies and principles. Prior to his acceptance of a judicial position, he seldom failed to take an active part in the state and national campaigns, as an expounder of the doctrines of his party, and in 1880 he was an influential delegate to the convention which nominated General Garfield for President of the United States.

Literature and farming constitute the diversions which Judge Anthony allows himself. His private library is one of the largest and most carefully selected in Chicago, and his contributions to the press have covered a wide range of subjects, many of his historical contributions having been especially interesting and valuable.

He has spent many of his vacations in traveling in Europe, and within the last few years, has visited almost every country north of the Mediterranean, including Russia, Turkey, Greece, Italy and Spain. Few Americans possess so broad a knowledge of all these countries as he, and a still smaller number of his countrymen have written of them so much that is instructive and entertaining.

His position in his adopted State is He is reone of great influence. garded as one of the foremost citizens of that great Commonwealth, and is justly entitled to its highest honors.

HOWARD LOUIS CONARD.

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EDITORIAL NOTES.

THE recent death of Jeptha H. Wade, one of the early telegraph builders and owners of America, has called out a number of statements concerning the initial days of that great invention. Some points of general and special interest in connection therewith may be found in the following extract from a letter from the pen of the venerable James D. Reid, who now occupies the position of United States Consul at Dumferline, Scotland: Although I am not at all anxious publicly to claim the peculiar and very interesting place my friends seem to take so much pleasure in assigning to me, there is this to be said as a matter of correct telegraph history, that neither Prof. Morse, with whom I was on the most intimate terms, nor Mr. Alfred Vail, who was also my very valued friend, ever had, at any time, any supervision or official direction of any kind with any telegraph line built for commercial uses or employment. Prof. Morse superintended the construction of the government experimental line between Baltimore and Washington, Mr. Vail acting as his assistant, their appointment ceasing with the delivery of the line to the government and the abandonment of the line to private purchasers by the Postmaster-General as a thing that wouldn't pay. I became superintendent when the first telegraph line was built for commercial uses, and superintended both construction and management, and of which the government experimental line soon formed a part. And it seems a very curious fact that such, for a time, was the dearth of the material out of which telegraph superintendents were made, that for several years I was superintendent of four-and, for a time, of five-distinct telegraph companies, performing all my duties without aid of secretary, assistant, or

clerk, and receiving a comfortable salary from each. Naturally, I delight in such a memory of work and fellowship such as marked these early heroic years, when labor to all was an honor and a glory. I am grateful that I retain in my new sphere all my anrient love for work, and that I have health far in advance of that with which I entered my telegraph life in 1845. One error made by one of the prominent scientific papers in New York may as well be corrected. Henry S. Potter, of Rochester, N. Y., was the first president of the Western Union Telegraph Company. Hiram Sibley became president in 1851. Jeptha H. Wade was elected president in 1866, refused re-election July 10th, 1867, and was succeeded by William Orton, who died April 22d, 1878, when, after a short interval, Dr. Green became, and is now, president. The name of 'Western Union was given to the company by Ezra Cornell."

A SCENE of considerable historical interest was witnessed in New York on Saturday, September 20th, when the bronze memorial to Horace Greeley was unveiled with appropriate ceremonies, in the presence of a large concourse of people. The monument is a special recognition on the part of the New York Tribune of the great and remarkable man who was its founder. The artist, J. Q. A. Ward, has performed his part of the task with skill, and those who knew Greeley best are warmest in their commendation of the skill with which the great editor has been reproduced in the bronze. The Tribune of the 21st, after speaking of the monument raised already to Greeley in the journal itself, adds these words: One memorial only was lacking. That was a statue of Horace Greeley on the historic corner of Printing

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House Square, where his familiar figure was seen in bygone years, and where his work among men was mainly done. That memorial was supplied yesterday in a work of art, noble in conception, singularly chaste and tender in feeling, and masterful and impressive in effect. Mr. Greeley's own aspiration, that he should be known to coming ages as the founder of the Tribune, is fulfilled in this unique triple monument-the building, the journal and the heroic figure in bronze, with its contemplative eyes uplifted from the open page and with good-will for men beaming from its benignant features. The ceremonies with which the last of these memorials was revealed to the public were simple and impressive. Col. Hay's unaffected and graceful speech was followed by Mr. Depew's oration-a noble yet touching and almost affectionate tribute to Horace Greeley's genius, robust civic virtues and purity of heart. Each address was a wreath worthy to crown the memory of the heroic dead. A faithful daughter's hand removed the veil, and the great editor was revealed in sculptured bronze, in the habit of thought and life as he was seen among men. He being dead still speaketh to all who have caught something of the inspiration of his life. The Tribune henceforth bears on its front the image and superscription of its founder."

THE following document, issued by the president of the Mormon Church on the 24th of September, 1890, may have a deep significance in reference to events to come-time only can show its bearing upon the history of the Mormon church:

"SALT LAKE, Sept. 24.

To whom it may concern: Press despatches having been sent from Salt Lake City, which have been widely published for political purposes, to the effect that the Utah Commission, in their recent report to the Secretary of the Interior, allege that plural marriages are still being solemnized,

and that forty or more of such marriages have been contracted in Utah since last June or during the past year; also, that in public discourses the leaders of the church have taught, encouraged and urged the continuance of the practice of polygamy.

"I, therefore, as President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, do hereby, in the most solemn manner, declare that the charges are false. We are not teaching polygamy or plural marriage, nor permitting any person to enter into its practice, and I deny that either forty or any other number of plural marriages have, during that period, been solemnized in our temples or any other place in the territory.

'One case has been reported in which the parties alleged that the marriage was performed in the endowment house in Salt Lake City in the spring of 1889. But I have not been able to learn who performed the ceremony. Whatever was done in this matter was done without my knowledge. In consequence of this alleged occurrence the endowment house was, by my instructions, taken down without delay.

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'Inasmuch as laws have been enacted by Congress forbidding plural marriages, which laws have been pronounced constitutional by the court of last resort, I do hereby declare my intention to submit to those laws, and use all my influence with the members of the church over which I preside to have them do likewise. There is nothing in my teaching to the church or in those of my associates, during the time specified, which can reasonably be construed to inculcate or encourage polygamy; and when any elder of the church has used language which appeared to convey such teachings, he has been promptly reproved; and I now publicly declare that my advice to the Latter Day Saints is to refrain from contracting any marriages forbidden by the laws of the land.

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