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Supreme Court of Missouri, and who has John Adams in 1801. His father, Henry since been so well known to the legal pro Hitchcock, was Chief-Justice of Alabama, fession as Professor at the Harvard Law in which State the present Henry Hitch School; Hon. Albert Todd, and Henry cock was born. He was graduated from the Hitchcock. University of Nashville, Tenn., in 1846, and A special feature of the organization was from Yale College in 1848, at the age of

the appointment of an Advisory and Exam nineteen. In 1875 Yale conferred on him ining Board, composed of prominent mem the honorary degree of LL.D. Even at the bers of the bench and bar, with the duties time the St. Louis Law School was first pro indicated by the title, jected in 1860, he and as to which more was one of the lead will be said. ing lawyers of St. The first Advisory Louis, and he has and Examining Board since acquired a na included Hon. Samuel tional reputation as a F. Miller, Justice of jurist. During the the United States Su war he was Assistant Adjutant-General and preme Court; Hon. Judge - Advocate on David Wagner, then General Sherman's Chief-Justice of Mis souri; Hon. Arnold staff. Krekel. United States The scholarly bent Judge in the Western of Mr. Hitchcock's District of the State; mind and the scope Hon. Samuel Reber of his attainments and Hon. Charles B. have made him prom Lord, of the St. Louis inent in the discussion Circuit Court; and of constitutional ques James O. Broadhead, tions. He was one of Samuel T Glover, the founders and has John R. Shepley, John been an active mem M. Krum, and C. C. ber of the American Whittlesey, all promi Bar Association; a ALEXANDER MARTIN. nent members of the member of its Commit St. Louis Bar. tee on Jurisprudence Hon. Henry Hitchcock was the first Dean continuously from its organization; he has of the Faculty, and upon him devolved the been President of the Missouri State Bar executive management of the new enterprise. Association and the St. Louis Bar Associa From the first suggestion of a law school, tion, and is well known as the author of able Mr. Hitchcock was indefatigable in his ef papers read before all of them, and as the forts to advance it; and by his personal in promoter of needed reforms in the law. His fluence, and as a Director of Washington paper on " The Inviolability of Telegrams," University, he contributed in a peculiar read before the American Bar Association sense to its success. in 1879, has received the unusual compli Mr. Hitchcock comes from a family of ment of being quoted as authority in appel distinguished lawyers. Samuel Hitchcock late courts. of Vermont, his grandfather, was appointed In 1882 he was associated with Edward United States Circuit Judge by President J. Phelps, Clarkson N. Potter, William M.