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no narrow specialist. He worked hard and fast, without haste, and took 

 substantial vacations. He said that a man could do more work in five 

 days of the week than in six, in eleven months of the year than in 

 twelve. To speak as a New Englander, he loafed not infrequently when 

 his work was over, but he never dawdled. He loved to be out of doors, 

 went often into the woods fishing and shooting; notwithstanding his great 

 size he rode on horseback until middle life, and later took up the game 

 of golf. He read many books of many sorts with marvellous quickness. 

 His literary taste was simple and healthy. He admired the English of 

 the Bible, and wished that he might be a delegate to any convention 

 of the Episcopal Church before which a proposal to substitute the re- 

 vised for the authorized version should come up. His contribution to 

 the discussion would have been both learned and vigorous. He was 

 always interested in public affairs, and at considerable sacrifice retained 

 his citizenship in Boston during the last twenty years of his life. He 

 could seldom vote here, but he took care that his name was kept on the 

 voting list. He liked good company. With habits of mind fresh and 

 almost boyish to the end of his life, he liked especially the society of 

 the young. Young people in Washington spoke of his liveliness and the 

 interest they found in his conversation. 



He was married on June 4, 1889, to Jane, daughter of his late col- 

 league, the Honorable Stanley Matthews, and the marriage was serenely 

 happy. His parents were Congregationalists, and he was brought up 

 in that communion. In middle life he attended the services at Trinity 

 Church, Boston, whose rector, Phillips Brooks, was his friend. He was 

 confirmed in the Protestant Episcopal Church at Washington, in 1889, 

 and was thereafter a regular communicant. The strength of his religious 

 feelings was manifested throughout his life in private and on every fit- 

 ting public occasion ; it may be judged by his commemoration of his col- 

 leagues in the Supreme Court of Massachusetts, Chief Justice Chapman 

 and Justices Metcalf, Wells, and Cult, and by his oration on Chief 

 Justice Marshall. 



He was not a pioneer like Mansfield and Marshall, breaking out a way 

 through regions of law hitherto untravelled ; a pioneer comes hardly 

 once in a century of our legal history : hut for thirty-eight years he 

 labored with success to make the crooked ways of the law straight and 

 its rough places plain. 



Francis C. Lowkll. 



