XVIII OBITUARY NOTICES. 



his death — having been a member of the Law Committee since 1882, 

 chairman of that committee since 1896, and a member of the Fi- 

 nance Committee since 1894. 



In 1895 he acted as chairman of a committee of twenty-one 

 leaders of the bar from all parts of the commonwealth which or- 

 ganized the Pennsylvania Bar Association, and was chosen its second 

 president. His address as president, upon " The Development in 

 Pennsylvania of Constitutional Restraints upon the Power and Pro- 

 cedure of the Legislature," was as notable as a historical treatise 

 upon our constitutional growth as it was admirable for the clearness 

 and vigor of its views. After yielding his presidency he did not, 

 as so many ex-presidents did, lose interest in the work, but con- 

 tinued his active relationship to the Association, and in 1902, largely 

 at his instance, and because of his character, which was a sufficient 

 surety against unfair or arbitrary discrimination in the exercise of 

 new and unusual powers, the Supreme Court created the State 

 Board of Law Examiners of five members, and appointed him a 

 member. He immediately became its chairman and remained in 

 that position until his death. His successor as chairman has de- 

 scribed him exactly: "Though thus the central figure of that or- 

 ganization and the representative of the Bar of the state, he im- 

 pressed one strongly with the fact of his complete ignorance of 

 his being the one or the other. He moved among us as Cj[uietly and 

 as gently, as inconspicuously, as a tyro. It was an achievement. 

 It was something out of the way to see one who was so great pass 

 so Cjuietly and modestly among us." 



In June, 1907, he was appointed by the board of judges a mem- 

 ber of the board of directors of the City Trusts of Philadelphia 

 charged specifically with the practical administration of the estate 

 of Stephen Girard, and served that most splendid of municipal 

 charities with active and well-informed zeal until the close of his 

 life. He was a manager of the Wistar Institute of Anatomy and 

 Biology, founded by the munificence of our own former president 

 Isaac Wistar. He sat as director in the boards of fifteen corpora- 

 tions, among which were the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Com- 

 pany, The Lehigh and New England Railroad Company, The Lehigh 

 and Wilkes-Barre Coal Company, The Lehigh Navigation Electric 



