Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. . represents the broad and powerful American judicial mind, which hascontributed so largely to the integrity of the Union. James Kent (b. July 31,1763; d. December 12, 1847) was professor, judgeof chancery, justice and chief justice of the U. S. Supreme Court, andchancellor of New York. He possesse
Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. . represents the broad and powerful American judicial mind, which hascontributed so largely to the integrity of the Union. James Kent (b. July 31,1763; d. December 12, 1847) was professor, judgeof chancery, justice and chief justice of the U. S. Supreme Court, andchancellor of New York. He possessed immense legal learning, and to himis primarily due the creation of New York courts of equity. His exhaustive Commentaries upon American Law is accepted at home and abroad asone of the great classics of American law literature. Francis Wharton was born March 7, 1820, and died February 21, 1884. EPOCH-MAKERS OF THE CENTURY 697 Although at the age of forty-three he exchanged law for the ministry, hestill showed the legal tendency of his mind in a long career as professor ofecclesiastical and international law in Boston institutions. He enriched theliterature of his profession by many valuable and standard works on law,municipal, state, national, and international, and, under Mr. Cleveland, was. OTTO E. L. VON BTSMARCK. of great service to the administration as United States Examiner of Inter-national Claims in the Department of State. Louis Adolphe Thiers, of France (b. April 16, 1797 ; d. September 3. 1877),was editor, historian, and statesman, and in the latter role became, a distin-guished leader of French thought and polity. His greatest service to hiscountry was after the Franco-Prussian war, when the Assembly elected himchief of the executive, with the title of President of the Republic. In thiscapacity he was particularly successful in negotiating the terms of peace withGermany, and in fulfilling all the conditions of peace. 698 TRIUMPHS AND WONDERS OF THE X1XT CENTURY Wi
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