Eleanor H. Emory of Gray Rock, Baltimore County. He was educated at the Hill School, at Pottstown, Pennsylvania, in the private and public schools of Baltimore City, and at St. Luke's School, in Philadelphia, and was graduated from the Law School of the University of Maryland in June, 1903. He was, at the time, not quite twenty-one, and in the fall of the same year was admitted to the Bar of Maryland.

He began the practice of law with the firm of Slingluff and Slingluff, remaining with them about three years. Then, after practicing alone for a year, he associated himself with the firm of Miles and Morris. On January 1, 1908, he became a member of the firm of Johnson, Emory, Olmstead and Cator. On January 1, 1911, he formed a partnership with Morris A. Soper, under the name of Soper and Emory. Shortly after Judge Soper's elevation to the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City, Mr. Emory became a member of the firm of Frank, Emory and Beeuwkes. This was May 1, 1913, and he remained in that firm until his death.

In the meanwhile, from July 15, 1910, until September 15, 1911, when he resigned, he was Assistant City Solicitor of Baltimore under City Solicitor Edgar Allan Poe, this being his only public office.

He was a born lawyer, broadened and developed by constant study and application and by tireless industry. His trial practice, at nisi prius, and in the appellate courts, was very large. He practiced his profession for less than fifteen years, yet at the age of thirty-six, his position at the Bar was eminent.

In May, 1917, less than one month after the declaration of war, Mr. Emory entered the First Officers' Training Camp at Fort Myer, and was commissioned a Captain on August 17, 1917. He then went to Camp Lee and was

commissioned a Major on January 1, 1918. On May 26, 1918, he sailed from Newport News. His Battalion was in the very thick of the fighting in the Argonne. Forest during the last six weeks before the armistice. Major Emory was beyond the Selective Draft age limit and had a wife and family, but he had thought his country's duty was to fight. He had advocated that belief when war was declared and he felt his duty was at the front.

Major Emory married Lucy I. Stump, of Baltimore City. She, together with three sons, German H. H. Emory, Jr., Richard Woollen Emory and Morris Soper Emory survive him.

As was so fittingly stated by the Attorney General at the Memorial Services in the Court of Appeals:

"He was one of the best known and ablest members of the Maryland Bar. His practice was extensive. With his talents, his industry and his personality, he could not have been otherwise. His friends numbered everyone he ever met. His future was whatever he wanted it to be.”

FREDERICK C. COLSTON.

Frederick Campbell Colston died on November 19, 1918, at a military hospital near Verdun, in France. He was born ́in Baltimore on January 25, 1884, and was therefore thirtyfour years old.

At the time of his death he had distinguished himself in two professions, his chosen profession of the law, and the profession of arms, which he had taken up at the call of his country. In both of these he had before him the example of his ancestors, as he was a grandson of Justice Campbell, of the United States Supreme Court, and of the Confederate Cabinet, while his father, Captain Fred

erick M. Colston, had served with distinction as an officer in the Confederate Army, in which he held the rank of Captain in the same branch of the service, the artillery, as that subsequently chosen by his son.

After graduating from Yale College, Frederick C. Colston studied law at the University of Maryland, and was admitted as a member of the Bar in 1906. He first entered the legal department of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, but subsequently became associated with the firm of Venable, Baetjer and Howard, with which he was connected up to the time of his death.

He brought to the practice of his profession a thoroughly trained intellect, high qualifications and industry; and was also distinguished by his uprightness of character, the refinement of his tastes and a disposition which endeared him to all who knew him well.

He also took a deep interest in subjects outside of the legal profession. As a young man he had been proficient in manly sports, to an unusual degree in some; and he was devoted to literature and music; to the latter especially with a degree of critical appreciation and understanding which is very uncommon.

In the early part of 1916, when it was becoming apparent that our country would probably soon need the military services of many of its younger men, because of the increasing prospect of our taking part in the war in Europe as well as the trouble on our own border, he joined the battery of artillery which was then organized here (Battery A) and served in it for one year as private, Corporal and Sergeant. Six months of that time was spent in training at the camp at Tobyhanna, where, though without previous military training of any sort, the soldierly qualities which he showed resulted in his promotion through these grades.

On his return to Baltimore in the following winter he determined to qualify himself by study for a position as officer of artillery, a branch of the service which has greater technical requirements than perhaps any other. During that winter, therefore, he studied the necessary subjects under an officer who was attached for that purpose to the Johns Hopkins University, and in the spring passed the necessary entrance examinations and was admitted to the training school at Fort Myer. From there he graduated in August, 1917, with the rank of Captain, being second in the class of field artillery Captains. He was then assigned to Camp Lee, near Petersburg, where he spent the fall and winter of 1917-18 instructing others and further perfecting himself in his new profession.

After a short course in firing tactics and aerial observation at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, he was finally sent to Europe with his brigade, the 155th Field Artillery, in May. There, with his brigade, he was sent for a final course of training to a French artillery camp in Brittany, where he was made operations officer of the brigade, a most important position, which he held till his death.

It was not until September, 1918, that his brigade was finally sent to the front, where, however, it arrived in time. to take a very important part in the great offensive which drove the Germans back to Sedan, and which was only concluded by the armistice of November 11.

As operations officer of the brigade, it was his duty to determine and direct the carrying out of the artillery "barrages" which constitute so important a feature of modern attack, over the front of about 12 kilometers assigned to his brigade. This was work requiring great technical skill and accuracy, as it involved the determination of the changing angles and directions of fire of the five hundred guns

of all sizes, for each of which he had to work out the detailed firing orders designed to maintain a curtain of projectiles, advancing as closely as possible in front of the successive advances of the infantry. Not only did such a position call for the greatest accuracy, coolness and technical skill, especially when such work had to be performed under service conditions and on the battlefield, but it was a position of the heaviest responsibility.

These most exacting and important duties he continued to perform during all of the great offensive of the last two months of the war, in a manner that won not only the sincerest admiration of his fellow-officers, but that resulted in his being, by an order issued a few days before his death, and of which he never knew, assigned for higher duty with the chief of artillery of the Seventh Corps. The strain of his duties, however, told heavily upon his physical strength during this time; he had little time to sleep, and when the sudden relaxation of the armistice came in November, his physical condition showed the heavy strain which he had been under. Four days after the armistice his fellow-officers became concerned about his health, and had him submit to a thorough medical examination. His case was diagnosed as influenza, and he was sent off to a hospital in the rear. On the way his condition became worse, he was left at a hospital five miles west of Verdun, where pneumonia developed, and two days after his arrival he died on November 19, 1918. He was buried with religious services and military honors near by, in one of those military cemeteries already containing many graves of French soldiers and officers who lost their lives in the three years of almost constant battle on the adjacent front, and now also the graves of many of our own soldiers who fell during the last months of the war.