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In the following brief accounts of men Eastern Iowa. In 1866, he published a digest who have been prominently connected with of Iowa Reports, and immediately afterward this Law School, no effort is made to enter removed to Des Moines, and became con into details further than to show something nected with the Law School there in the fall of their character and qualifications, and the of that year. The success of the School dur nature of their work. ing the fifteen years of Dr. Hammond's con George G. Wright came to Iowa from In nection with it, must be largely attributed to diana almost immediately after the comple his profound knowledge of law, and his skill tion of his college course, and about the as a teacher. The breadth and exactness of time Iowa was admitted as a State. Enter his learning was hardly to be appreciated by ing upon the practice of law, he achieved the novice, but the students could not but success in his profession, and was, in 1855, feel deep respect for his attainments; and elected one of the judges of the Supreme the genuine sympathy and interest which he Court, which position he held almost con showed in them and their achievements, and tinuously until 1870, when he was sent to his enthusiasm for the study of law, strongly the Senate, where he was a member of the attracted them. Many of them cheerfully Judiciary Committee, and was made chair attribute the love which they have for that man of the Committee on Claims. In 1877, which is noblest in their profession, and their he returned to the active practice of law, success in it, to the inspiration of his labors. and was president of the American Bar As The most prominent feature of his method sociation at its last annual session. Judge of instruction was the attention given to Wright was a professor in the Law School fundamental doctrines and the historical from its organization, until he entered the development of his subject. He seemed Senate. Since retiring from public life, he able to point out the lines of growth which has been again connected with the School, ' would lead to the solution of new questions, delivering a course of lectures upon Profes 1 as well as explain the results reached on sional Ethics, to which has since been added! questions already decided. The interesting a course on Constitutional Limitations. As and profound course of lectures which he a lecturer, he is practical, active, and enthu has delivered several times during the past siastic. From a wide experience, he gives two or three years in different institutions, on counsel and warnings, which are so apt in the " History of the Common Law," was themselves and so sympathetically conveyed, commenced and to a considerable extent as to make a deep impression. elaborated, while he was connected with this Chester C. Cole came to Iowa about 1859 School. from Kentucky. He was a member of the John F. Dillon studied law in Iowa, after bar until 1864, when he became a judge of having prepared for the practice of medicine. the Supreme Court, holding that position He had not been long at the bar before he until 1876, when he resumed active practice, became judge of one of the District Courts in which he is still engaged. He was pro of the State, and while holding that position, fessor in the School from its organization prepared and published, in 1860, the first until 1875. As an instructor, he was alert digest of Iowa Reports. In 1864, he became and affable, guiding the students through a judge of the Supreme Court, and was as the questions arising in the recitation, with sociated for several years on the bench of ingenuity and skill. that Court with Judges Wright and Cole. William G. Hammond studied law in New During this period the Court attained a de York and there practised his profession for servedly high reputation for ability, and its some years. Afterwards he studied abroad, opinions pronounced during that period are and then came West and resumed practice in frequently referred to with the greatest re