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He was married in 1863 to Miss Fannie W. Chappell, of Callaway county, and they have one son.
Mr. Smith is very gentlemanly in trying a case, but it is not safe for an adver- sary to presume too much upon his courtesy and forbearance. When once aroused and compelled to resent an insult, his invective and sarcasm are simply withering.
HON. CHARLES HENRY HARDIN. MEXICO.
T HIS prominent lawyer, founder of Hardin College, and late governor of the state of Missouri, was born in Trimble county, Kentucky, July 15, 1820. His parents were Charles Hardin, a native of Virginia, and Hannah Jewell, a native of Virginia, and sister of Doctor William Jewell, the founder of the college of his name at Liberty, Missouri. In the autumn of the year in which our sub- ject was born the family came into this state, then a territory; and settled in Col- umbia, Boone county, where Charles Hardin died in 1830, and his widow in 1861.
Mr. Hardin had in his youth an avidity for knowledge; prepared for college in Columbia, and took his college course at the Indiana State University at Bloomington, and Miami College, Oxford, Ohio, spending the last two and a half years at the latter institution, and being graduated in 1841. He read law at Co- lumbia under the late Judge James M. Gordon; was examined by Hon. William Scott, of the supreme bench; was admitted to the bar in December, 1842, and in February, 1843, commenced practice at Fulton, Callaway county, In May of the next year he was married to Miss Mary Barr Jenkins, an intelligent and refined lady, daughter of Theodrick Jenkins, in his day a prominent farmer and stock dealer in Boone county.
In a very few years Mr. Hardin rose to a high position among the legal frater- nity of his judicial circuit. His pleadings are reported to have been "models of
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conciseness and legal accuracy." His brilliant success as a lawyer, according to the judgment of one writer, "is in great part attributable to the ceaseless labor which he bestowed on the matters intrusted to his management."
Mr. Hardin practiced at Fulton for eighteen years, and during that period was often honored with official posts, which he in turn honored. In 1848 he was elected state's attorney for the old third circuit, embracing six counties; held that office for the full term of four years, and made a splendid success as a prosecutor.
He was elected on the whig ticket to the legislature from Callaway county in 1852, 1851 and 1858. At the close of the session of 1855 the legislature chose him, and Hon. J. W. Reid and Hon. T. C. Richardson a committee to revise and com- pile the statutes of the state. Their work being completed, Mr. Hardin was designated to superintend the editing and printing, which he did in a highly creditable manner. This duty is all the more complimentary to him as it was assigned by a democratic legislature.
From 1850 to 1862 Mr. Hardin was one of the managers of the state lunatic asylum at Fulton, and secretary of the board.
He made so excellent a legislator in the lower house that in 1860 Mr. Hardin was elected to the upper house, representing Boone and Callaway counties, and being chairman of the judiciary committee. He was the only member of the senate who voted against withdrawing from the Union.
In 1861 Mr. Hardin removed to his present home, Mexico. At or near the . close of the civil war, when the courts were opened, he commenced practice, and continued it until 1872. About the same time he became president of the South- ern Bank at Mexico, and that office he still holds. In 1872 he was again returned to the state senate, this time for Audrain, Boone and Callaway counties, and was again placed at the head of the judiciary committee, and also made chairman of the lunatic asylum committee.
In 1874 Mr. Hardin was placed at the head of the democratic state ticket, made a thorough and energetic canvass of the state, and had nearly forty thousand majority of the votes. Governor Hardin organized an era of retrench- ment and reform, and greatly elevated the credit of the state.
The following resolution was adopted by the democratic state convention, July 19, 1876:
Resolved, That we point with pride to the administration of Charles H. Hardin, governor of Missouri, as a model one in the history of the state, and challenge comparison for it with that of any other state in the Union, and upon the honorable record thus made in the management of our state affairs we invite all good men to cooperate with us in our determination to present and elect a state ticket that shall prove worthy successors to Governor Charles H. Hardin and his associates in the various state offices.
One of the best deeds of the governor's life was the founding and endowing of Hardin College (1873), to which he has contributed about sixty thousand dol- lars in money and lands. It has fine buildings, an experienced corps of teachers,
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and is proving a great success. It is designed for females only. Governor Hardin is a Baptist, and a majority of the teachers are of that denomination; but the school itself is not regarded as denominational, and all classes patronize it.
The residence of Governor Hardin, known as Forest Home, situated two and a half miles north of Mexico, and embracing four hundred and eighty acres, is one of the finest homes in this part of Audrain county, being fitted up with a great deal of taste, and there the governor and his accomplished wife (they have no children) are quietly spending the afternoon of life.
HON. WARWICK HOUGH. JEFFERSON CITY.
T HE chief justice of the supreme court of Missouri, whose name is at the head of this sketch, is one of the most eminent jurists of the state, and has risen to that eminent position by his own inherent energies, industry and well cultivated talents. He was born in Loudon county, Virginia, January 26, 1836, and in the autumn of that year his parents came to Saint Louis. Two years later they settled in Jefferson City, where the father of our subject, George W. Hough, died in 1878. He was a prominent politician, and a man of much influ- ence and noted for his stainless purity of character.
The subject of this sketch was graduated at the state university, Columbia, class of 1854, and received the degree of master of arts in course. In college he was studious and exemplary in his deportment, and gave especial attention to general literature and the graces of oratory and rhetoric. In the year in which he received the degree of bachelor of arts, he was selected from his class to make some barometrical observations and calculations for Professor Swallow, then the state geologist; and in the same year ( 1854), Governor Price commissioned him assistant state geologist. We understand that his work in that field of labor is embodied in the reports of Benjamin F. Shumard and A. B .- Meek, and printed in the geological reports.
While thus employed, Mr. Hough devoted all the leisure time at his command to the study of law. He finished his legal studies at Jefferson City with General Edward L. Edwards, now judge of the circuit court, and was admitted to the bar in 1859. From 1858 to 1861 he served as secretary to the state senate.
In 1860, Mr. Hough became a partner of Hon. J. Proctor Knott, then attorney- general of Missouri, and now governor of Kentucky, and they were in practice together until the spring of 1861. In May of that year Mr. Hough was married to Miss Nina E. Massey, daughter of Benjamin F. Massey, at that time secre- tary of state. They have five children. Civil war being then in progress, Mr. Hough was appointed adjutant general of the state by Governor Jackson, whom he accompanied to the South, serving with him until the governor's death. He was then appointed secretary of state by Governor Reynolds, who, as lieutenant
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governor, succeeded Governor Jackson, and he resigned in December, 1863. In February, 1864, he was assigned to duty on the staff of Lieutenant General Polk, after whose death he was assigned to the staff of General S. D. Lee. Still later he was on the staff of General Dick Taylor, surrendering with him in May, 1865.
Mr. Hough practiced in Memphis, Tennessee, until the removal of the test oath in this state, and then (1867) opened an office at Kansas City, where he was in practice in 1874, when he was recommended to the office of supreme judge by the entire bar of that (Jackson) county, and also of the adjacent counties. In the autumn of that year he was elected to that high position for the period of ten years, succeeding Hon. Washington Adams. His term will expire with the year 1884, and should he consent to serve longer, there is little doubt of his re- election, for he is serving with great ability and to the general satisfaction of the people who placed him on the bench.
A writer in the "United States Biographical Dictionary," Missouri volume, 1878, thus speaks of the judge:
" Judge Ilough's decisions and judicial papers have gained for him great repu- tation. He has evidently lost none of his studious habits, and his papers show not only profound legal learning, but have the scholarly and classical finish that results only from a wide range of reading and an intimate acquaintance with the great authors of English composition. But, aside from his acquired accomplish- ments, he is a man of much force and originality of character."
We have only to add that no judge in the state of Missouri wears the ermine with more dignity or propriety, or is doing better work than Judge Hough in elevating the character of the jurisprudence of the state. Such men are an honor to any commonwealth.
HON. DANIEL H. MCINTYRE. MEXICO.
D ANIEL HARRISON MCINTYRE, attorney general of the state of Mis- souri, was born in Callaway county, this state, May 5, 1833, being a son of Charles Weaver Melntyre and Margaret ( Harrison) McIntyre. His father was born in Fleming county, Kentucky. His grandfather, Daniel McIntyre, served in the war of 1812-14. This branch of the Harrisons came from England, there being two brothers, who were among the early settlers in Virginia. In 1834 Charles W. McIntyre took his family to Audrain county, adjoining Callaway on the north, and there our subject had his first mental discipline, in the common schools. He is a graduate of Westminster College, Fulton, Callaway county, class of 1861. He went immediately into the army on the confederate side; at first as captain of a company in the state guards. He was wounded at Wilson's Creek, August 10, 1861, and was afterward taken prisoner in Callaway county. At the end of nine months he enlisted in the regular confederate state troops, going in as a lieutenant, and coming out as captain at the close of the war.
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Mr. McIntyre now farmed in Audrain county for four or five years. Mean- while, in 1866, he was married to Miss Susan F. Simpson, of Audrain county. While engaged in agricultural pursuits, Mr. Melntyre devoted his leisure time to the reading of law, and finished in the office of Hon. Charles HI. Hardin. In 1871 he was licensed to practice by Judge William P. Harrison, and settled in Mex- ico. He was soon afterward elected prosecuting attorney of Audrain county, and served one term. He was elected to the state senate to fill the unexpired term of Mr. Hardin, who was elected governor in 1874.
In 1876 Mr. Mcintyre was elected to the house, and reflected in 1878. In the sessions of 1877 and 1879 he was chairman of the judiciary committee, and in the latter session he was also on two or three other committees: a special committee to supervise the revision of the statutes of 1879, and then of a joint committee to prepare the statutes for publication. He took a prominent part while in the legislature, and was one of the foremost members on the democratic side. So conspicuous was he in that body, and so much ability did he exhibit, that in the campaign of 1880 he was the democratic candidate for attorney general, and elected with the rest of the ticket.
As a lawyer he is painstaking and untiring in his labor for his client. He is an eloquent speaker, and a successful jury advocate, and is distinguished for his integrity, his kindness of heart, and his social amenities.
HON. EDWARD A. LEWIS. SAINT LOUIS.
E DWARD AUGUSTUS LEWIS, the presiding judge of the Saint Louis court of appeals, and a man of varied literary attainments and great legal learning, is a grandson of Samuel Lewis, at one period a civil engineer attached to the staff of George Washington. His father, Edward S. Lewis, a native of Philadelphia, was for many years a clerk in the third auditor's office in Washing- ton, where he died in 1829, and where the subject of the present sketch was born, February 22, 1820 Edward S. Lewis, notwithstanding he died in the thirty- fifth year of his age, achieved an enviable reputation as a prose and poetical writer for the periodical papers of his day. He married Susan Jean Washington, a daughter of Lund Washington, and a sister of Hon. P. G. Washington, assist- ant secretary of the treasury under the administration of President Pierce. She died in 1829, and the orphan boy was sent to school at Charlotte Hall, Maryland, where his school days ended three years later. From that date young Lewis was his own tutor, and in a few years mastered most branches of mathematics and became a fair linguist.
In 1835 Mr. Lewis became an apprentice to the printer's trade, in the office of Duff Green, at Washington, and the next year he went to Virginia, where he soon secured a position as a private tutor in a family. During the time of his employ
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ment in this capacity he diligently pursued a course of study, which was, in a great measure, the foundation for his subsequent achievements. In 1838 he returned to Washington, but after spending a few months in the general land office he went to Mississippi, where he served as deputy circuit clerk of Yazoo county for one year, during which time he devoted all his spare time to reading law, so that, at the expiration of another year wholly devoted to his legal studies, he was admitted to the bar, and for four years practiced law in that state,
Mr. Lewis came to Missouri in January, 1845, and the next month, having been admitted to the bar of this state, he began the practice of law at Richmond, Ray county. In September of that year he married Parthenia, daughter of Wal- ter L. Bransford, who was a Kentuckian. The Ray circuit extended over eight counties, in which field of legal labor Mr. Lewis soon gained a position which placed him among the very foremost of the younger members of the bar.
In 1851, in conjunction with Hon. Joseph B. Crockett, he edited the daily "Intelligencer" in the city of Saint Louis. In the following year Mr. Crockett went to California, and Mr. Lewis became the sole proprietor and political editor of the paper. In that year ( 1852) the printers' national convention was held at Cincinnati, and Mr. Lewis introduced the resolution which resulted in the forma- tion of the National Typographical Union. Twenty-two years afterward he delivered, by request, an address before the International Typographical Union (another name for the same organization) at its session which convened at Saint Louis, on which occasion he was introduced to the convention as "the father of the union." In the autumn of 1853 he returned to the practice of law, and rap- idly attained eminence in his profession. In the following spring he was appointed attorney for the North Missouri railroad. In 1856 he was one of four candidates for judge of the Saint Louis land court, Hon. C. B. Lord being elected, and Mr. Lewis receiving the next highest vote. In the same year he moved to Saint Charles city, and in the year following purchased two hundred acres of land on the line of the railroad just mentioned, and laid out a town, now called New Florence, named for his daughter. In 1858 he was elected curator of Saint Charles College, of which institution he afterward, and for several years, was act- ing president.
In 1800 he was a presidential elector on the Breckenridge ticket. He was, in 1861-62, president of the Saint Charles branch of the Southern Bank of Mis- souri. In 1863 he was one of the democratic candidates for judge of the supreme court, having received the highest number of votes cast in the convention for any candidate for any office. The entire ticket was defeated. In 1872 he was again a presidential elector on the democratic and liberal ticket, and was chosen to convey the vote of the state to Washington.
Though modest and retiring in his disposition, his learning and talents, coupled with a pure and irreproachable character, had caused the bench and bar of the state to accord him a distinguished position in the profession, and in 1874 he was appointed by Governor Woodson, himself a lawyer of ability and dis-
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crimination, to fill an unexpired term as chief justice of the supreme court, the vacancy being caused by the resignation of Judge Wash Adams. By the consti- tution of 1875 the Saint Louis court of appeals was created, a court which, as we learn from a sketch of Judge Lewis in " The Commonwealth of Missouri," "is practically, in its constitutional jurisdiction, the court of last resort for about seven-eighths of the litigation arising in the courts of Saint Louis, Saint Charles, Lincoln and Warren counties." Judges Lewis, Gantt and Bakewell were ap- pointed judges of this court, and in 1876 Judge Lewis was elected, and by a con- stitutional provision became presiding judge of the court. His term of office will expire in January, 1889.
Judge Lewis has six children: Walter F. is a commercial traveler, Edward S. is a merchant, Florence E. is the wife of Robert Atkinson, a manufacturer of Saint Louis, Eugene W. and P. Grayson are bookkeepers, and Bransford is a physician.
Early in his professional career Judge Lewis gave evidence of the possession of that peculiar order of intellect which has distinguished him as a judge, and which has been aptly termed a judicial mind. He is said to have always seen both sides of every legal proposition presented in the progress of judicial investi- gations with which he had any connection. This mental characteristic prevented him from becoming a blind partisan of his client, but it enabled him to forearm himself, and to thus successfully combat the position taken by opposing counsel.
A member of the Saint Louis bar, who is thoroughly well acquainted with Judge Lewis and with his judicial writings, and who is eminently well qualified to form an accurate estimate of his judicial character, thus speaks of him:
"Being possessed of a tender, generous, sympathetic nature, cultivated and broadened by life-long habits of thought and action, he is, as a judge, patient and attentive in the hearing of causes, and kind, courteous and considerate in his manners and speech toward counsel. Though firm and unwavering in his con- victions, he invariably gives the profoundest consideration to opposing views, and his opinions give evidence of a desire to convince by a course of a logical reason- ing rather than to override by dogmatic statement. His vocabulary of good, strong, clear English is very full, from which he has a wonderful power of select- ing words which exactly express the desired shade of meaning, and hence his judicial utterances are marked by absolute clearness and certainty. It is charac- teristic of his judicial writings that they show an almost entire absence of the bane of judges and the stumbling block of attorneys-dicta. Ilis style as a writer is eminently judicial -dignified in expression, logical in arrangement, and apt in illustration, with an irresistible power of fair and analytical statement, which causes his pregnant sentences, abounding as they do in evidences of legal research and couched in pure, chaste, simple, yet elegant English, to charm as well as convince."
It has been said of him as a judge that " he says what he means, means what he says, and stops when he has said it."
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Hle possesses a masterly skill in the use of the English language, the result of many years of close, analytical study and the economical use of leisure hours. Judge Lewis verifies the statement that " the spare moments of a year are mighty laborers if kept at their work." His industry has borne rich fruits in literature -- poetical and prose, professional and general - which give him rank as a cultivated gentleman, a profound lawyer, and a writer of refined taste and splendid talents. The child-like simplicity of his nature and the purity of his life, coupled with his eminent abilities as a writer and his great attainments as a jurist, insure him the warm affection of his friends and the distinguished consideration of the public.
HON. FRANCIS M. COCKRELL.
WARRENSBURGH.
F RANCIS MARION COCKRELL, United States senator, is one of the sons of Johnson county of whom she may well be proud. Reared here on a farm, carly taught the great lesson that industry is the direct road to success, he eventually found his way to the county bar; rose rapidly as a lawyer, and at one bound landed in the United States senate.
Mr. Cockrell was born near the village of Columbus, fifteen miles from War- rensburgh, in October, 1834, being a son of Joseph Cockrell, who came from Kentucky to this state in 1831, and was the first sheriff of Johnson county. Francis finished his education at Chapel Hill College, this state, where he taught one year after concluding his studies there, reading law at the same time. In March, 1855, he entered the law office of Charles O. Silliman, Warrensburgh, and was admitted to the bar in October following. He was in partnership with his preceptor until the civil war began, when he entered the confederate service as captain of a company, and rose to the rank of brigadier general. He had com- mand of the ist Missouri brigade, composed of the ist and ed Missouri regiments, the only troops that remained in the field, on the east side of the Missouri River, until the war ended.
General Cockrell returned to Warrensburgh in the spring of 1866, and be- came a partner of Hon. T. T. Crittenden, now governor of the state, and the firm of Crittenden and Cockrell became one of the most distinguished law firms in western Missouri. General Cockrell was just as much of a student at law after being admitted to practice as before, and it was no uncommon thing to see him poring over his law books and looking up authorities long after midnight. He excels as a court lawyer, and is good before a jury, being logical and clear, with- out being oratorical; and his candor, sincerity, great weight of character, and fine presence, all combine to give him great influence and success.
In 1874, the subject of these notes was a candidate for the nomination for governor in the democratic convention, when Hon. Charles H. Hardin was nomi- nated over him on the third ballot by one-sixth of a vote. He was elected to the
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United States senate in January, 1875, and reflected in the same month in 1881. He is a growing man, and his native state, as well as his native county, may well be proud of him. He is a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, a man of great probity, and a Christian gentleman of the best type.
Senator Cockrell has a third wife. The first was Miss Arethusa D. Stapp, of Chapel Ilill, married in 1853, she dying in 1859; the second, Miss Anna E. Mann, of Kentucky, married in 1866, and dying in 1871; and his present wife was Miss Anna Ewing, daughter of Judge E. B. Ewing, of Saint Louis, married in 1873. Senator Cockrell had two children by the first wife, none by the second, and has five by the present wife. One of the two sons by the first wife, John J. Cockrell, is mentioned on other pages of this work.
HON. THOMAS T. CRITTENDEN. JEFFERSON CITY.
T HOMAS THEODORE CRITTENDEN, governor of the state of Missouri. is a son of Henry Crittenden, and Anna M. (Allen) Crittenden, and was born in Shelby county, Kentucky, January 2, 1834. His father was a younger brother of Hon. John J. Crittenden, the great Kentucky statesman and whig United States senator. The mother of our subject was a daughter of Colonel John Allen, who was once a prominent lawyer in Shelby county, Kentucky, and who was killed in the battle of River Raisin, near Monroe, Michigan, in the war of 1812-14. We learn from "The Commonwealth of Missouri," that Mrs. Crit- tenden inherited many of the qualities of her brave and heroic father, and was a mother ever devoted to the happiness, the education and the welfare of her children.
The subject of this sketch is a graduate of Center College, Kentucky, class of 1855; read law at Frankfort, in the office of his uncle, Hon. J. J. Crittenden, and was admitted to practice by Chief Justice Simpson, at Winchester, in 1356. In the autumn of that year he was married to Carrie W., daughter of Samuel Jack- son, of Lexington, she being a lady of fine mental and social accomplishments; and the next year after this union Mr. Crittenden immigrated to this state, and opened a law office at Lexington, after being admitted to the Missouri bar by Judge Hicks.
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