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elected a Circuit Court Commissioner, but place, welcomed him to the position as a being restless and dissatisfied removed to worthy successor of the lamented Manning, Ohio in 1852, taking up his residence in who had been removed from the bench by Toledo, where he formed a partnership in the death; and yet, as one of them has since real-estate business. He remained at Toledo said, they were and continued to be more until the real-estate boom, which that city and more surprised and gratified by the was enjoying at that time, collapsed, and abilities which he continued more and more then returned again to Michigan, determined to exhibit as a Judge the longer he con to win success, if possible, in the law. He tinued on the bench. Judge Cooley retired

from the Law Fac again made his home in Adrian, and was at ulty in 1884, and from one time junior mem the Supreme Court in ber of the firm of 1885. Since his re Beaman, Beecher, & tirement from the Fac ulty he has not with Cooley. The senior member of this firm, drawn his interest in the school, and has Fernando C. Beaman, from time to time de was a member of Con livered lectures theregress from 186 1 to in, notably so on 1 863; and in 1879 was Taxation and Consti appointed by the Gov tutional Law. Judge ernor to fill the unex Cooley's career as a pired term of ZachaUniversity professor. riah Chandler in the Senate of the United Judge of the Supreme States, but declined Court, and writer of the appointment. Mr. law treatises is a re Cooley also became splendent one. His the senior member of works have made him the firm of Cooley & famous in Europe as Croswell, the junior well as in America, member being after and his name has been wards twice elected a tower of strength to WILLIAM P. WELLS. Governor of Michigan. the University of In 1857 Mr. Cooley Michigan, which made was appointed to compile the General Stat him a Doctor of Laws in 1873, a similar utes of the State, and in 1858 he was made honor being conferred on him by Harvard the Official Reporter of the Supreme Court University in 1886. As " the one great of Michigan. In 1859, as before indicated, law book of the last century," the Commen he was appointed a professor in the Univer taries of Blackstone, was the fruit of a sity Law School, when he removed his resi professorship in law in an English Uni dence to Ann Arbor, where he has since versity, so most of the classic legal litera continued to reside. He was then thirty-five ture of this country has been the fruitage years of age, and entered on his duties with of similar professorships here. Chancellor zeal and energy. In 1864 he became a Judge Kent's Commentaries were the results of his of the Supreme Court of the State. His law professorship in Columbia College. All associates on the bench, who already knew of Story's works — some thirteen volumes — something of his high qualifications for the are the fruits of his work as Dane Professor