door to the highest tribunal in the Nation and with all the joys that come to him from realized ambitions and high position, that which touches him the most is that he takes with him to that new and higher life, the little woman, who for more than a quarter of a century has been his constant joy and benediction." On another occasion, the New England banquet at Leavenworth, February 22, 1889, while referring to the part New England women took in bringing about the success of the pilgrim fathers and their descendants, he paid the following tribute to his wife: "I know whereof I affirm when I say that a little woman, illy versed in the lore of the schools, incapable of the active struggles of public life and seeking ever the quiet and retirement of home life, may be the inspiration and monitor of one occupying high public office and whose life is filled with wide-spread activities." It is pleasant to dwell on this picture of married lovers, alas, so seldom to be found among those in high station, or in any rank of life after a marital experience of a quarter of a century, and it needed but this to fill up the portrait of a wise and good man attempted to be drawn in this too brief sketch. Their union has been blessed with four daughters, Harriet E., Etta L., Fannie A. and Jennie E. Brewer, of whom the first named was recently married to Mr. Aaron P. Jetmore, a young lawyer of high character and ability residing at Topeka.

Justice Brewer has received the degree of LL.D. from Yale College.

OF

JAMES OVERTON BROADHEAD.

THIS distinguished member of the Saint Louis Bar

was born in Albemarle County, Virginia, on the 29th of May 1819. His father, Achilles Broadhead, was a substantial farmer and a soldier in the war of 1812, with the rank of captain.

At the early age of sixteen, Mr. Broadhead entered the University of Virginia, but his father having left him no patrimony, he was obliged to support himself while at that institution, by engaging himself as a private tutor during his leisure hours. In 1836, he taught in a private school near Baltimore, and the next year removed to Missouri, where his father had preceded him a short time before. Although but eighteen years old when he arrived in Missouri, he found employment as a tutor in the family of the distinguished Edward Bates, in whose household he was a member for four years, during that time incidently reading law under the immediate supervision of Mr. Bates, who had, from the first introduction of young Broadhead into his family, taken a decided liking to his studious protege. In 1842, he was admitted to the practice by Judge Ezra Hunt, who was then holding court at Bowling Green, Pike County. The young attorney then selected Bowling Green as his place of residence, and at once engaged in the practice of his profession in the circuit which then embraced the counties of Saint Charles, Lincoln, Pike, Ralls, Montgomery and Warren. Mr. Broadhead soon assumed a position in the front rank of a Bar which has become lustrous, as the his

tory of Pike County is very closely allied to the history of the intellectual development of Missouri.

In 1845, Mr. Broadhead was elected a delegate from the Second Senatorial District to the State Constitutional Convention; two years later he was elected by the Whig party, of which he was a staunch adherent, to represent Pike County in the Legislature. In 1851, he was sent to the State Senate by an immense majority, where he served with distinction for four years. In 1859, Mr. Broadhead transferred his residence from Saint Charles to Saint Louis, where he formed a partnership with Fidelio C. Sharp, an eminent jurist; the firm of Sharp and Broadhead continued until 1875, when it was dissolved by the death of the senior partner. Mr. Broadhead then associated himself with another legal gentleman, the firm now being Broadhead and Haenssler.

At the breaking out of the Civil War, Mr. Broadhead was an unswerving Union man. Great credit is due to him in those troublous days in maintaining the integrity of the State intact in its relations with the Federal Government. He was the warm and trusted friend of Frank P. Blair, at whose suggestion Mr. Broadhead was placed on the Committee of Public Safety, organized in Saint Louis on the 1st of February, 1861, for the purpose of resisting any overt acts by the enemies of the Union. This Committee was composed of such sterling men as O. D. Filley, Samuel T. Glover, John Howe, J. J. Witzig, Frank P. Blair and James O. Broadhead. Mr. Broadhead is the only living representative of that famous committee, which in its day discharged a grave responsibility.

Mr. Broadhead was a member of the State Convention which met in St. Louis, in 1861, to reorganize the State Government, the Chief Magistrate, Claiborne Jackson, having fled from the Commonwealth. During the winter of that year and the succeeding spring, Mr. Broadhead was busily engaged in connection with other prom