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store of dry humor and a mind well stocked with reading, study and 

 travel, he was much in demand for both pul)lic and private entertain- 

 ments and filled with distinction a social position seldom attained in a 

 city like New Orleans by one coming from without. 



Judge Howe's work upon the Supreme bench of Louisiana showed 

 courage, learning and conscientious discharge of his duties. He 

 dared in a strong dissenting opinion to declare against the constitu- 

 tionality of a state law which denied to one who in good faith had 

 purchased for value a note originally given for the price of a slave the 

 right to recover on the note. But the times were not faxorable for 

 any great judicial career in Louisiana, and the practice of the court 

 which did not favor long opinions makes the reports of his decisions 

 for the most part little more than a record of the conclusions reached. 

 On the bench and in his subsequent career Judge Howe acquired 

 a deserved distinction as a capable judge, an able counsellor and an 

 effective lecturer. He lacked perhaps the attainments that would 

 warrant calling him a great jurist, a great advocate or a great teacher. 

 But if he fell short of the highest professional rank, his di\ersified 

 interests, his large public spirit, the traits which won him the respect 

 and esteem of the community and the affection of numerous friends, 

 fully entitle him to be written down as " one who loved his fellow 

 men" — and served them well. 



WiLLLUI H. DUXBAR. 



LEONARD PARKER KINNICUTT (1854-1911) 



FeUow ill Class I, Section 3, 1883. 



Leonard Parker Kinnicutt ^ was born in Worcester, May 22, 1S54, 

 the son of Francis H. and Elizabeth Waldo (Parker) Kinnicutt. He 

 received his early education in the schools of Worcester, graduating 

 from the high school in 1S71. He went at once to the Massachusetts 

 Institute of Technology, where he devoted himself chiefly to the study 

 of chemistry. Following his graduation in 1875 he spent four years 

 in professional studies in Germany. At Heidelberg he came under 



1 This sketch was published by the writer in Science April 28, 1911. 



