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State as the choice of the bar for that office. mitted to the bar. In less than a year there He did not, however, receive the appoint after, he was appointed Assistant United ment, a person of a different political faith States District Attorney, and held that posi being preferred. In 1887 the Regents of the tion until May, 1868. In July of that year he University appointed him to deliver a course was appointed, by Governor Crapo, a circuit of forty lectures on the subject of real estate. judge for the County of Wayne, and held This course was commenced in April, 1888; the position until his successor was elected

and at a meeting of the Board in June follow by popular vote. He soon afterwards en ing, he was made Jay Professor of Law. tered into partnership with John I. New Jerome C. Knowlbury and Ashley Pond, two prominent lawyers ton, Assistant Profes of Detroit, and con sor of Law, was ap pointed as such in tinued with them in the practice of the pro 1885. He was born in Michigan, Dec. 14, fession until March, 1875, when he was ap 1850, and graduated pointed United States from the University of District Judge. Not Michigan in 1875 with long ago one of the the degree of A.B., and from the Law Detroit papers con School in 1878 with tained an article rela ting to Judge Brown, the degree of LL.B., from which the follow and immediately en ing is taken, as not tered on the practice being without inter of the law at Ann Arbor. In 1888 he est : — edited an American "He is a man whose edition of Anson on face, head, figure, and Contracts, which is gait denote the best of used as a text-book in mental and physical this and other law strength, and seen a schools. He has, in square away, protected the main, had charge by an English cape-coat JEROME C KNOWLTON. of the text-book work or an ordinary American overcoat, the stranger of the Department. Henry B. Brown, LL.D., the lecturer on would call the man about thirty years old. The Admiralty, is the United States District Judge judge is in reality about fifty years old; but a strong for the Eastern District of Michigan. He neck, head, and shoulders at work in producing a was born in Lee, Berkshire County, Mass., swinging yet rather jaunty step, which is accompa March 2, 1836. He graduated from the nied by free and careless manipulation of a slight cane, produces an appearance of athletic youthfulAcademic Department of Yale College in ness, quite in keeping with the man's health and 1856, and spent the year following his strength. On the bench the judge is dignified, graduation travelling in Europe. On his almost austere; but he is right He has remark return to this country he commenced the able power as a judge in the readiness with which study of law. He spent one year in the he sees and passes upon a point raised by an Yale Law School, and then entered the Har attorney practising before him. In this way he vard Law School. In December, 1859, he is an expeditious judge, saving much valuable came to Detroit, and in July, 1860, was ad- time. While he is dignified, he is patient, careful,