584 BALCH— SOME FORMER MEMBERS. [April i8, 



brush. And as you look upon the features of the third American 

 President that hangs upon the south wall of this room, as rendered 

 to posterity by Sully, do you not notice the marked resemblance to 

 another Jefferson who was easily the prince of the American comic 

 stage and also an author of no mean proportions.'^ John Sartain, 

 the engraver, was a member. To this group we must not forget to 

 add as a representative of the Fine Arts the French architect, 

 Viollet-le-Duc. He was the author of " L'Histoire d'Une Cathe- 

 dral " ; and in the reign of Louis Napoleon, Viollet-le-Duc did good 

 work for the preservation and restoration of many of the archi- 

 tectural treasures of France. He restored the justly famous feudal 

 castle of Pierrefonds, once the property of the Due d'Orleans, and 

 arranged for the preservation of the yet greater feudal stronghold 

 of Coucy-le-Chateau, whose lords boasted of their power in the 

 famous motto : 



" Roi ne suis, ni prince, ni due, ni comte aussi, 

 Suis le sieur de Coucy." 



Of famous jurists we have had John Jay, first Chief Justice of 

 the Supreme Court of the United States, and negotiator of Jay's 

 Treaty (1794) ; John Marshall and Roger Brooke Taney, who both 

 have sat in that same chair ; Justice Bushrod Washington, who sat 

 on that same high tribunal; Robert R. Livingston, first chancellor 

 of New York, and Lord Coleridge, Chief Justice of England. So, 

 too, Thomas McKean, a signer of the Declaration of Independence 

 and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, and 

 Edward Shippen, McKean's successor as chief justice of this com- 

 monwealth, were members. So, likewise, William Tilghman,^ Ship- 

 pen's successor, in the highest judicial office of the state, w^as elected 

 a member and also president of the society from 1824 until his death 

 three years later. Horace Binney, who won for the city of Phila- 

 delphia the Girard will case, was a member; and also James C. 

 Carter, for many years the acknowledged leader of the American 

 bar, and Edward J. Phelps, minister to the court of St. James. The 

 latter two were our leading counsels in the Bering Sea Fur Seal case 

 with the British Empire in 1893. 



Joseph Jefferson's "Autobiography," New York, 1890. 



* See H. Binney's eulogium, appendix to 16 Sargeant and Rawle. 



