History of the great Northwest and its men of progress : a select list of biographical sketches and portraits of the leaders in business, professional and official life . mediately associatedhimself with Hon. J. S. Gribble, now chan-cellor of the judicial division to which Wil-son county belongs, and began the practiceof law at Lebanon. He continued this prac-tice for two years, then accepted the posi-tion of professor of Ancient Languages inLincoln university, Lincoln, 111. In 1887he resigned this chair and at the solicita-tion of President I). J. McMillan, his cousin,now of New York City, he
History of the great Northwest and its men of progress : a select list of biographical sketches and portraits of the leaders in business, professional and official life . mediately associatedhimself with Hon. J. S. Gribble, now chan-cellor of the judicial division to which Wil-son county belongs, and began the practiceof law at Lebanon. He continued this prac-tice for two years, then accepted the posi-tion of professor of Ancient Languages inLincoln university, Lincoln, 111. In 1887he resigned this chair and at the solicita-tion of President I). J. McMillan, his cousin,now of New York City, he accepted the pro-fessorship of Ancient Languages in theCollege of Montana, at Deer Lodge, is now his legal residence, althoughon duty at Helena. After teaching twoyears in this institution he resumed thepractice of law at Deer Lodge, and con-tinued until 18!)2, when he was elected judgeof the Third Judicial District of was re-elected in 1896 to the same posi-tion. At the general election in 1898 he waschosen to the supreme court, the positionwhich he still holds. Mr. Brantlys father and the family wereWhigs, and most of them favored, either. THEO. ^NTLY. actively or passively, the abolition ofslavery. They became Democrats at J.]ieclose of the war and most of them still ad-here to that party, but Judge Brantly votedfor Iresident Garfield, and has since beena Republican. He is a Knight of Pythias,and a member of the Masonic order. Hehas held the various offlces in the subordi-nate lodges and is now grand master ofMasons for the state of Montana. In re-ligion he is a Presbyterian. In 1891 hewas married to Lois Reat, at Tuscola, is of Scotch descent. Her ancestorscoming to America before the Revolution,settled in Virginia and Kentucky, whenceher people emigrated to Illinois before theCivil war. They have three children, Theo-dore Lee, Lois Brown, and Neil DuncanBrantly. SHEVLIN, Thomas Henry.—The whitepine forests of Minnesota have furnished
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