KII.I:. MI; 



LANK, .t.\Mi:s 11. 



427 



r abases and destroy! man- 

 .mce and reform. 



upon the qnea- 



Mature, and tin- rmi- 

 ainclldlii. ' ' featcd ill tllO 



:<1 in the Senate 

 to 7. 



nincnt young physi- 

 [ndiana, May 20, 1842 ; 

 Illinois, August 4, 18C6. 

 lie! no in St. Louis, Mo., and 

 with the highest honors of his 

 At the outbreak of tlio war Dr. 

 imluied with a strong Union senti- 

 appoiuted surgeon. During liis 

 ho held many responsible and 

 inn.'. For six months ho was 

 assistant im-diey! director in charge of the 

 tes Hospital at Helena, Ark. In 

 : winning nmny commendations, 

 t the remonstrances of his superior 

 \'ned his commission in order 

 ! his medical education in New 

 York I 'it y. He was an ardent student of medi- 

 cine, >m>n;r in his convictions, and skilful in 

 1 hough young in years, he had the 

 . nco of an old practitioner. Dr. Kile 

 was a genuine type of the youthful American 

 surgeon, careful yet hold in his operations. His 

 generous and amiable character endeared him 

 to all who knew him. 



1 r 1 1 T-BRUCE, Sir JAMES LEWIS, D. C. L., 



"i-d Chief Justice of the Court of Appeals, 



pie, February 15, 1791, died in 



Surrey, Eng., November 7, 1866. At an early age 



s sent to King Edward's Grammar School 



at Math, and upon his father's death, in 1791', 

 was removed to tin- King's School, Sherborno; 

 .studied law in 1. on. Ion, and in 117 was ad- 

 niitti (1 to the bar of Lincoln's Inn. After some 

 practice he exchanged the Common Law for 

 the Equity M:>r, where his talents soon secured 

 a large practice. In 1829 he was appointed 

 Kind's Conn-el, and in 1831 was elected to 

 Parliament for Bishop's Castle a borough 

 which was disfranchised at the passing of the 

 Reform Bill, in 1832. In 1834 ho received the 

 degree of D. C. L. from the University of Ox- 

 ford. A Conservative in politics, he was one 

 of the speakers against the Reform Act in 

 1835; and in 1837 closed his parliamentary 

 career by an unsuccessful struggle for the repre- 

 sentation of the borough of Cambridge. In 

 this year he assumed by royal license the sur- 

 name of Bruce. In 1842 he was made Vice- 

 Chancellor, and a member of the Judicial 

 Committee of the Privy Council and of the 

 Final Court of Appeal from the Courts of India 

 and the Colonies, and from the ecclesiastical 

 and admiralty jurisdictions of Great Britain. 

 In 1852 ho became senior Lord Justice, a posi- 

 tion which he only resigned a fortnight previous 

 to his death. His profound legal knowledge, 

 indefatigable energy and capacity for work, his 

 strictly lucid and terse style of language, the 

 vein of dry and often sarcastic humor which 

 pervaded his decisions, and his dignified and 

 courteous bearing, rendered him every way 

 qualified for the important positions he held, 

 while his public and private virtues pave him a 

 strong hold upon the respect and affection of 

 the profession at largo. 



I ANK, lion. EBF.XEZEP, formerly Chief Justice 



of the Supreme Court of Ohio, born in North- 



:i, Mass., September 17, 1793; died in 



Sant'.iir-ky, Ohio, June 18, 1866. He was fitted for 



< at Leicester Academy; graduated at 



ird College in 1811, and immediately 



entered upon the study of law in the 



office of his uncle, Matthew Griswold, of Lyrne, 



Conn. In 1814 he was admitted to the bar, and 



practi.-ing three years in Connecticut, 



ard, crossing the Alleghanies on 



and settled in Norwalk, Huron Co., Ohio. 



In 1824 he was appointed to the bench of 



the Court of Common Pleas, and afterward 



.Finite of the Supremo Court of Ohio, which 



'ie held about twenty years being made 



Chief .Iu-tice in 1837. After his retirement 



from the bench in 1845, he was engaged in the 



practice of law, and in various relations with 



the Western railways, until March, 1859, when 



he withdrew from active employment, and after 



a \i>it to Europe, returned to Sandu.-ky, where 



lie pa ed the remainder of his life. 



LANK. l|.,n. ,!.\M:S HI-XRY, a United States 

 lator, born in Lawrenceburg, Indiana, June 



22, 1814; died from the effects of wounds in- 

 flicted by his own hand while in a fit of tem- 

 porary insanity, near Leavcnworth, Kansas, 

 July 11, 18G6. On reaching his majority ho 

 was elected to the city conncil of Lawrence- 

 burg, and frequently reflected. In a subordi- 

 nate capacity he took part in the war with 

 Mexico. In 1849 he was chosen governor of 

 Indiana and was a representative in Congress 

 from that state from 1853 to 1855. Subse- 

 quently ho settled in Kansas and took an active 

 part in politics ; was president of the Topeka 

 Constitutional Convention, and was appointed 

 major-general of the free state troops. In 1 857 

 ho was president of the Lcavenworth Constitu- 

 tional Convention, and again chosen major- 

 general of the territorial troops. ' On the ad- 

 mission of Kansas into the Union he was chosen 

 a Senator in Congress, serving on the Commit- 

 tees on Indian Affairs and Agriculture, and was 

 reflected for the term ending in 1871, serving 

 as Chairman of the Committee on Agriculture, 

 and a member of that on Territories. At tho 

 opening of the rebellion, President Lincoln ap- 

 pointed him a Brigadier-General, nnd he ren- 



