Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees . the acknowledged leader of the OhioBar. He declined a seat on the Supreme Bench ofthe State, and also nominations to Congress, butserved one term, 1849, in the Ohio first attracted attention nationally when asso-ciated with Caleb Gushing and William M. Evartsas Counsel for the United States before the GenevaCourt of Arbitration, 1871-1872, and on his returnin the latter year, the degree of Doctor of
Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees . the acknowledged leader of the OhioBar. He declined a seat on the Supreme Bench ofthe State, and also nominations to Congress, butserved one term, 1849, in the Ohio first attracted attention nationally when asso-ciated with Caleb Gushing and William M. Evartsas Counsel for the United States before the GenevaCourt of Arbitration, 1871-1872, and on his returnin the latter year, the degree of Doctor of Laws President, and refused to serve on the ElectoralCommission appointed to determine the Tilden-Hayes controversy in that year. After he becameChief-Justice, the only position of public trust w^hichhe held was in connection with the Peabody Fundfor Southern Education, wiiich he held from 1874to the lime of his death, in Washington, March 23,1888. Chief-Justice Waite received the degree ofDoctor of Laws from Yale in 1872, Kenyon in 1874,Ohio State University in 1879, and Columbia in1887. He served as a Fellow of the Corporationof Yale during the last six years of his MORRISON R. WAITE was conferred upon him by Yale. He presidedover the Ohio Constitutional Convention in 1874,and in the same year, on the death of Chief-JusticeChase, he was appointed to the vacancy thus madein the Supreme Court of the United States. Forfourteen years Chief-Justice Waite held this highestplace in the judiciary of the land, receiving distinctionby the wisdom of his judgments and respect by hisconscientious devotion to the duties of the him the office was not only one of dignity, butsacred from the intrusion of all other would excuse himself from a dinner of state,when an important opinion required his labor. Hemade it very clearly known in 1876 that he mustnot be considered a candidate for nomination for WILLIAMS, Eliphalet Yale 1743, 178s - Harvard A M. (Hon
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