History of the class of '70, Department of literature, science and the arts . -ear : was appointed one ofthe s]Xakers at the Junior ,and also one of the speakers atCommencement: was a mem1)er ofthe Literar\- .\delphi. .\fter receiving- his degree in 1870. he wasinstructor in Latin and (ierman for two _\ears in Adrian College,reading law at the same time. Was admitted to the har in Janu-ary, 1872, at Adrian. Mich., and commenced law i)ractiee at .\u-hurn, Tnd., January, 1873, where he at once took a leading pnri inpending litigation, l-rom 1876101880 he was citv attornev : in 1884was a memh
History of the class of '70, Department of literature, science and the arts . -ear : was appointed one ofthe s]Xakers at the Junior ,and also one of the speakers atCommencement: was a mem1)er ofthe Literar\- .\delphi. .\fter receiving- his degree in 1870. he wasinstructor in Latin and (ierman for two _\ears in Adrian College,reading law at the same time. Was admitted to the har in Janu-ary, 1872, at Adrian. Mich., and commenced law i)ractiee at .\u-hurn, Tnd., January, 1873, where he at once took a leading pnri inpending litigation, l-rom 1876101880 he was citv attornev : in 1884was a memher of the Repu!)lican State Committee: in 1888 waspresidential elector and electoral messenger: was a delegate to theNational Repuhlican Convention in i8(j2: judge of 35th circuitof Indiana from i8(j4to i8(j7. President McKinlev a])])i)inted himsolicitor of the Cnited States l^epartment of State in i8(j7. whichposition he still holds. He has shown marked ahilit\ and goodjudgment in handling the many important and intricate cpiestions. Di:iARi\Mi-:xT OF Literature, Science, and Arts. 165 wliich have arisen in the State Department from tlie commence-ment of the S])anish war to the ])resent time. I !e was counsel forthe United States and recovered awards, amountini^ to over twoand one-half million dollars, in favor of the Inited States in inter-national arhitrations against Xicaragua, Haiti, the Dominican Re-puhlic, Peru, (iautemala. Chili, Salvador and Mexico. Is counselfor the United States in arljitrations pending- with (iermany,Russia and Mexico, i le sailed from New York, August i6, 1902,enroute to Holland, where he went as counsel for the United Statesin the arl)itration with Mexico before The Hague internationaltribunal. This case involved aliout one million dollars and wasthe first to come before that tribunal. The Xew York Tribune in its issue of August 2, 1902, said:The government is prett} well satisfied over its experienceswith international arbitration in the last six
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