Portraits of eminent Americans now living: with biographical and historical memoirs of there lives and actions . ss and encourage- JOHX W. EDMONDS, OF NKW-TORK. 803 ment, and hears them with patience. By the rising generation of law-yers—those who must, in a score of years hence, be the masters of thefield now occupied by their seniors—he will be long and affectionatelyremembered, and by some of their number, who will wield abler pensthan ours, proper tributes will be paid to his superior virtues and abili-ties. What was said of Sir Matthew Hale is no less true of the jubge: His conversation i
Portraits of eminent Americans now living: with biographical and historical memoirs of there lives and actions . ss and encourage- JOHX W. EDMONDS, OF NKW-TORK. 803 ment, and hears them with patience. By the rising generation of law-yers—those who must, in a score of years hence, be the masters of thefield now occupied by their seniors—he will be long and affectionatelyremembered, and by some of their number, who will wield abler pensthan ours, proper tributes will be paid to his superior virtues and abili-ties. What was said of Sir Matthew Hale is no less true of the jubge: His conversation is affable and entertaining ; his eloquence easy andpersuasive; his temper w^arm, open, and generous ; he is affectionateto his family and sincere to his friends. The judge has one brother, Francis W., cashier of the MechanicsBank in New-York, and distinguished as an artist. He has also threesisters, two of whom reside in the State of New-York, and the third,the wife of Col. Webb, of the United States Army, is living in Illinois,The family of the judge consists of three daughters, two of whom V:- c^ CiPfr^Fvs/. a^TisiiiT hf ikp STupreme Z^\wl ©f ike r,5 \^.-,r^. ^.t-^; ;^ .•*^».i-ir^ LETTER FROM JUSTICE CATRON. 805 . BIOGRAPHICAL LETTER FROM JUSTICE CATRON, OF THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES. Dear Sir,—Some days since I received your letter of the 15th in-stant, in which you express a desire to publish in your magazine asketch of my life, with a portrait, <Szc. For your kindness and good opinion, be pleased to accept my do not believe there is a man living who could give you any tolerableaccount of my early life, except myself; and when the incidents werenarrated, they would only prove, what Campbell says of Lord Mans-field—that when he came up from Scotland to Westminister School ona Highland pony, the chances were a billion to one against his everbeing Chief Justice: and I can safely say, that quite as many chancesstood in the w
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