of which he has devoted the long years of his energy and brilliant talents. He has an extensive law practice; associated with him is Mr. H. J. May, who was a faithful assistant in the Department of Justice when the senior partner of the firm was its distinguished chief.

Nine children have been the fruit of General Garland's happy marriage. Five of them were lost at an early age from two to six years. Four survive; three sons and one daughter. All of these are grown except the youngest. They are still moving along in the footsteps of their illustrious father at Saint Mary's and Saint Joseph's in Kentucky.

Mr. Garland is a well preserved specimen of the Southern gentleman. Straight as an arrow, measures six feet one inch in his shoes; weighs 190 pounds. He is in the enjoyment of excellent health. No one noticing him as he walks around the great city, would suppose that he had ever risen to a position beyond that of a village schoolmaster. Naturally genial and social, he has often, because of the constant engrossment of his time with business, seemed to appear what he in no sense is, a sour, unhappy man.

In December, 1877, Mrs. Garland was taken from him by the ruthless destroyer. The cruel blow fell upon him with crushing force. For a long time his friends. were fearful it would also destroy him. His aged mother, his great consoler since the death of his deeply lamented wife, is one of his family, and in the full possession of all her faculties.

WALTER Q. GRESHAM.

L

ORD BOLINGBROKE'S definition of men of genius, applies to the distinguished Americans who have added to the luster of their country, though at the time he uttered the words, the United States had no existence. "Such men," said he, "either appear like ministers of divine vengeance, and their course through the world is marked by desolation and oppression, by poverty and servitude; or they are the guardian angels of the country they inhabit, busy to avert even the most distant evil, and to maintain or procure peace, plenty, and the greatest of all blessings, liberty."

There is no field comparable to the law for the development of the faculty referred to and a man of genius in that domain, is bound to assert his superiority quicker than in any other. But while the scope may be greater, the demand made upon the character who possesses the genius, is the test of the man, who must be absolutely endowed with it in a degree that admits of no hypocrisy. He is true or his superficiality will soon find its level.

The eminent Judge whose biography in a limited space is here recorded, is evidently a man of genius in the domain of the law, where he has stood the test which either mars or makes, and the record of his official life fully sustains the verdict in his favor.

Walter Q. Gresham, the present Circuit Judge for the Seventh Judicial Circuit of the United States, was born March 17, 1832, on a farm near the village of Lanesville, in Harrison county, Indiana. His ancestors were

of English extraction on his father's side of the house, and Scotch-Irish on his mother's side. They located in Virginia originally and subsequently one branch of them migrated to Kentucky and thence north to Indiana. George Gresham who came to Indiana with his wife and family from Kentucky in 1809, was a man of strong and positive character and prominent in the Methodist church. The brother of his wife, Dennis Pennington, was an influential politician in his day, serving as a member of the Territorial and State Legislature, in the Senate and House of Representatives for a quarter of a century, and was at one time Speaker of the latter body. William Gresham was a son of George Gresham and a farmer who also carried on the trade of a cabinet-maker. In November, 1825, he married Sarah Davis by whom he had five children, and of these Walter is the youngest. At the election of 1833, William Gresham was almost unanimously chosen sheriff of Harrison county, and in the following January was killed by a local desperado whom he was endeavoring to arrest. His young widow gave her life thenceforth to the care and support of her children, two of whom were girls, and, being left with little means had a hard struggle of it. As the boys grew up they helped their mother in the work on the farm until Benjamin, the eldest, became a soldier in the Mexican war and afterward became a Colonel of an Indiana regiment in the war of the Rebellion. Walter obtained a position at Corydon, the county seat, which enabled him to become a pupil in the Seminary there for a period of two years. He subsequently entered the State University at Bloomington and remained there a year as a student. Leaving Bloomington he obtained a place in the County Clerk's office at Corydon, whereby he was able to maintain himself while he studied law under Judge Porter who was a thorough and efficient instructor. In 1854 young Gresham was admit