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JAMES B. BRADWELL.

ARCHIBALD A. GLENN died May 21, 1901. He was admitted to the Illinois bar January 8, 1858. He was for a numbers of years Justice of the Peace, Clerk of the Circuit Court of Brown County for eleven years, served four years as Superintendent of Public Construction, was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1862, and was elected to the State Senate in 1873. He was elected President of the Senate and ex-officio Lieutenant Governor. He spent a number of years before his death in Kansas. (See 6 Obit. Mem., p. 357.)

HON. WILLIAM ALLEN WOODS died June 29, 1901, at his home in Indianapolis. Judge Woods was on the bench of the Supreme Court in Indiana May, 1883, when he was appointed by President Arthur as Judge of the United States District Court of Indiana, succeeding the late Judge Walter Q. Gresham, who had been appointed Postmaster General. He was nominated by President Harrison, and on March 17, 1892, was confirmed and commissioned United States Circuit Judge for the Seventh Circuit, under the act of March 3, 1891, creating United States Circuit Courts of Appeals, of which court, since March 4, 1893, he has been the senior. As a member of this court, while sitting in Chicago for so many years, he became closely identified with the bench and bar of Illinois. Judge Woods gained a national reputation in 1894 by the Debs injunction. He was sustained by the Supreme Court of the United States in granting the injunction and imprisoning Debs. He also delivered an opinion in favor of granting an injunction to close the World's Fair on Sundays. Judge Woods was a man of splendid appearance, powerful in body, possessed of a well trained mind, fearless in the expression of his opinions and noted for his sterling integrity. In his judicial opinions he sought to follow legal principles more than judicial opinions. He placed but little value upon an adjudicated case unless it was founded on legal principles. (See 6 Obit. Mem., pp. 360, 361.)

REPORT OF NECROLOGIST.

Your Necrologist has written sketches of some and gathered all that he has been able to of the sketches, addresses, resolutions and proceedings of bar associations and bar meetings in relation to the members of the Illinois bar who have died during the year ending June 30, 1901, all of which will be found in 6 Obituary Memoranda, commencing on page 314.

The celebration of "John Marshall" Day originated with Adolph Moses, Esq., of Chicago, and was proposed by him to the Illinois State Bar Association in a memorial at the meeting of 1899. Favorable action was taken by the Association. In August of the same year the subject was presented by Mr. Moses to the American Bar Association and the proposed celebration was endorsed by that organization.

The movement rapidly became National in scope and the productions that it called forth constitute a noble literature. The report of the proceedings by the Illinois Association is here given.

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