Memoirs of the judiciary and the bar of New England for the nineteenth century : with a history of the judicial system of New England . ointed United States attorneyfor the district of Rhode Island. In 1896 hereceived the degree of LL. D. from Georgetownuniversity. 14 THE JUDICIARY AND THE BAR OF NEW ENGLAND. jNIr. Gormans name appears as counsel onthe pages of tlie Rhode Ishind reports in ugenerous proportion of the eases there reported,among them many leading ones, involving in-tricate questions of the constitutional law,torts, wills, and in equity. He has givenmuch time both as counsel and
Memoirs of the judiciary and the bar of New England for the nineteenth century : with a history of the judicial system of New England . ointed United States attorneyfor the district of Rhode Island. In 1896 hereceived the degree of LL. D. from Georgetownuniversity. 14 THE JUDICIARY AND THE BAR OF NEW ENGLAND. jNIr. Gormans name appears as counsel onthe pages of tlie Rhode Ishind reports in ugenerous proportion of the eases there reported,among them many leading ones, involving in-tricate questions of the constitutional law,torts, wills, and in equity. He has givenmuch time both as counsel and director to thevarious charitable organizations of Providence,and is professor of the law of domestic rela-tions, and wills in the Rhode Island Lawcollege. Mr. Gorman was married July 8, 1874, toMiss Josephine C. Dietrich, of Maryland;tiiey have two children liv^ing, Charles Wood-bury and Clement Dietrich. ROBERT WILLARD 15URBANK, aprominent attorney of Providence,Rhode Island, is descended from old NewEngland ancestry of sturdy type. His fatherwas Samuel Burbank, a ?*[aine lawyer, whowas among the early adventurers in California. KOBEKl W. BUKllAMi. when the discovery of gold startled the civil-i/.ed world, and went from there to theHawaiian group, where he was a sugar[)lanter for a time, and died in He mar- ried Mary A. Morse, also of Maine, who diedin 1880 in Providence. The son was bornat Kauai, on the Island of Koloa, one of theHawaiian group, Septendjer 14, 1856, andwhile still a child was brought to Maine byhis mother. He })rei)ared foi college at theFriends Boarding school in Providence, en-tered Brown university, and was graduatedwith the class of 1878. Entering tlie othce ofMowry & Comstock, in Providence, he pursuedhis law studies and was admitted to the IxirNovemlier 29, 1880. He at once began prac-tice and by his industry and ability soon ac-quire<l an excellent business. In 1888 he wasappointed assistant attorney-general of RhodeIsland, whicli office he
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