pure, clear and forcible, it possesses a polished precision and elegance, which lends additional charm.

In May 1875, after years of unremitting toil, Judge Dillon made a tour of Europe for the purpose of a rest he so greatly needed, for the recuperation of his health, which time and hard labor had impaired. While abroad he visited many countries, and attended, officially, the third annual conference of the "Association for the Reform and Codification of the Law of Nations," which met at The Hague, Holland, in September of that year, and of which Association he was a member. In 1883, and again in 1889, he visited Europe, and in 1884 was honored by an election as a member of "l'Institut de Droit International."

Upon his return from Europe in 1875, he was invited by the Iowa State Bar Association, to deliver the annual address. The invitation was cheerfully accepted, and Judge Dillon chose for his subject, "The Inns of Court and Westminster Hall." The address was not only well received by all who had the pleasure of listening to it, but went through several editions almost as soon as it was published. In 1884, the American Bar Association held its annual session at Saratoga Springs, New York. On this occasion Judge Dillon delivered the address and his subject was "American Institutions and Laws." In 1885, the Bar Association of South Carolina invited him to deliver the annual address before that body; it was the first annual meeting of the Association, and it may be regarded as a compliment that one was selected outside of the state to deliver the initial address before it. His subject was the "Uncertainty in our Laws." It was received by those present with enthusiasm and the press of the state was loud in its encomiums on the ability of the orator, and the wisdom and beauty of his oration. In 1886, he was again invited by the American Bar Association to address it, and in the fol

lowing year he delivered the address before the Alabama Bar Association. In July 1890, the Ohio Bar Association met in annual session at Put-in-Bay, and Judge Dillon was invited to deliver the address. On this occasion he selected for his subject: "Bentham and his School of Jurisprudence." This masterly paper evolves Judge Dillon's own ideas in relation to codification, a matter to which he has devoted a great deal of attention, because of its vast importance and resulting benefits if carried to legitimate ends.

Judge Dillon was married in 1853, to the daughter of Honorable Hiram Price, of Davenport, Iowa. He has four children, two sons and two daughters. The eldest son, Hiram Price Dillon was graduated at the Law School of the University of Iowa, was admitted to the Davenport Bar, and is now a successful lawyer in Topeka, KanHis younger son, John M. Dillon, resides with his father in New York City and was recently graduated at the Columbia College Law School.

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Judge Dillon's reputation is National and he enjoys a popularity second to no one in the profession. He has a host of warm friends, and his society is courted. He is high-minded, generous, gentle and unassuming, and beloved by all who have the honor of his friendship. He is truly a noble character and representative American. He is still in the prime of his vigor, and his career is radiant with the achievements of the past, and the future promises for him a brilliancy commensurate with the years of his life.

OF

JOSEPH N. DOLPH.

MR.

R. DOLPH, the eldest of a family of five children, was born on the 19th of October, 1835, near the village of Watkins, New York. His father, Chester Valentine Dolph, and his mother, Eliza Vanderbilt Dolph, lived on a farm, where Joseph first saw the light, and where he lived with his parents until he arrived at the age of sixteen. He attended the little district school of the neighborhood until he was old enough and strong enough to help work on the farm, very early developing a love for reading and devouring with avidity the limited number of books obtainable in the vicinity of his home. He is remembered by the old settlers as a very studious, thoughtful boy, who devoted less time to play and more to books than is generally the case with children at that period of life.

When arrived at the age of sixteen he left the farm to become a lock-tender on the Chemung Canal near the town of Havana, New York, where, for two seasons, he was thus employed; he did a man's work and lived in a small cabin by himself at the head of the lock. He was a slenderly built boy and really appeared much younger than sixteen. Occasionally some of the rough characters with which his vocation necessarily brought him in contact, attempted to impose upon young Dolph, but they soon became convinced that though he was a boy in years and stature, he possessed a spirit that would brook no interference with his personal rights or defiance of his authority in his charge of the lock, and these bullies