HENRY N. BLAKE, Chief Justice of the Montana Supreme Court, was born in Massachusetts June 5, 1838; his schooling, begun in the public schools, was crowned by an especially honorable graduation from Harvard College, with the degree of C. E. B., in 1858; he enlisted in April, 1861. in the Eleventh Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, and served as Sergeant, Second Lieutenant, First Lieutenant and Captain before the close of the war; he was wounded at the battles of Bull Run and Spottsylvania Court House. He came to Montana in 1866, and was admitted to practice in Montana courts June 1, 1867; was appointed United States Attorney in 1869; was elected in 1871 and again in 1884 District Attorney for the First Judicial District; was appointed Reporter of Supreme Court decisions in 1872; served as a member of the Legislatures of 1874, 1880, 1882 and 1886; was appointed Associate Justice of the Territorial Supreme Court in 1875, and served till 1880; early in 1889 he was appointed Chief Justice of the Territory, and on the assembling of the first Republican State Convention, in August 1889, was nominated Chief Justice of the State Supreme Court, and received a majority over Stephen DeWolfe at the election of October 1, 1889. He was married in Boston, January 27, 1870, to Miss Clara J. Clarke; two daughters were born, both of whom are living.

EDGAR N. HARWOOD, first Associate Justice, was born at Ellicottsville, Cattaraugus County, New York, in 1854. While very young his parents moved to Eastern Illinois, and later to Hannibal, Missouri. He studied law in the office of his brother at Hannibal. In 1882 he came to Montana and located in Yellowstone County. He was elected to the Territorial Legislature in 1886. It was here he made his reputation as a lawyer, and the result was his election to the Supreme Bench on the formation of the new State.

WILLIAM H. DEWITT, the junior Associate Justice, was born in 1854, and came to Montana in 1879. He graduated from Hamilton College in 1875 and the Columbia Law School in 1878. Since he arrived in Montana he has resided at Butte, where he practiced law till last fall, when he was elected to the Supreme Bench. In March, 1883, he was appointed by President Arthur United States District Attorney, which position he held till 1885, when he resigned. He was elected District Attorney of Silver Bow County in November, 1886, re-elected to the same office in 1888, and was holding that position when he was chosen to fill the office of Associate Justice at the State election in the fall of 1889.

WILLIAM J. KENNEDY, Clerk of the Montana Supreme Court, was born at Bowmanville, Durham County, Canada, April 11, 1851, of Scotch-Irish parentage; his education was acquired at the Canadian public schools; he came to Montana April 30, 1880, coming to the United States the preceding June; he made his home at Victor, Missoula County, and engaged in farming; he served as County Commissioner in Missoula County, and was on the County Board at the time of his election to the Constitutional Convention of 1889. After the convention he was nominated for Clerk of the Supreme Court by the first Republican State Convention, held at Anaconda in August, 1889. It may be truthfully said that Mr. Kennedy neither expected nor solicited the honor of a nomination, but after having accepted, made the contest, being elected by one of the highest majorities.

HIRAM KNOWLES, United States District Judge for the District of Montana, was born in the year 1834 at Hamden, Maine, at the home of his grandfather, his father, who was a sea captain, being absent on a voyage at the time. When but two or three years of age his parents moved to Illinois, locating in Hancock (now Warren) County, where his father resumed the practice of medicine, for which he had been educated. In 1840 his parents moved to West Point, Iowa, at which time the Blackhawk Indians were as plentiful along the Mississippi Imoved to Keokuk, Iowa, where, during the war, Dr. Knowles had charge of one of the United States hospitals. In 1850 young Hiram, with his father, having survived the siege of cholera which raged with fury through Iowa in 1849, left for the Pacific coast, reaching Hangtown (now Placerville), California, July 22. His father purchased a stock of goods and opened a store about seven miles below Hangtown, and placed his son in charge, while he practiced his profession. The father's health failing, they started on the return trip to the States, going by way of Central America, in which country they spent two months, during which time they, with a party of Americans, circumnavigated Lake Nicaragua. They reached home in March, 1851. Hiram entered college at West Point, but was taken sick and compelled to stop; afterward entered the Denmark Academy, from which institution he graduated; also attended Antioch College, in

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Ohio, two years; went to Mississippi in 1857, where he taught for about six months in the Pine Land Academy; entered the office of Messrs. Rankin & Miller as a law student of Judge Miller; was admitted to the bar at Keokuk in 1859, and in the fall of that same year entered Cambridge Law School, at Cambridge, Mass., graduating in 1860; returned to Keokuk, and commenced practicing, and in 1862 came to Montana; was appointed District Attorney for Humboldt County, Nevada, by Orrian Clemens, a brother of Mark Twain," at that time Secretary and acting Governor; was elected Probate Judge of that county; went to Idaho City in 1865, and with Frank Ganahl opened a law office, where they practiced until 1866, when Mr. Knowles again returned to Montana, being attracted by the reported gold discoveries at Elk Creek and Bear Gulch. Purchasing an interest in a mine at Deep Gulch, he worked all summer as windlassman. Having learned, about the time of leaving Idaho, that his mother was in poor health, and having received no news all summer, he sold out his interest in the mine and returned to his old home, but learned on the way that his mother had died. While in Iowa, undetermined as to his next move, he was appointed Associate Justice of Montana. He remained upon the Supreme Bench for eleven years and one month, resigning in 1879. Judge Knowles was married to Miss Mary L. Curtis, at Athens, Ohio, April 12, 1871, and moved at once to Deer Lodge, where they made their home until 1882. Six children, four of whom are living, have been born to them. In 1881 Judge Knowles associated with him John F. Forbis, and practiced law at Butte until appointed United States District Judge by President Harrison, in 1890; was a member of the Constitutional Convention in 1889, and was a prominent member of the Committee on Judiciary.

Montana, was born December 1, 1858, in Allegany County, New York, of American parentage. His parents moved to Wisconsin when he was but six years of age; attended the district school, and afterward graduated from Lawrence University, at Appleton, Wis., with the class of 1880; attended the State University at Madison, Wis., taking a law course; commenced the practice of his chosen profession at Oshkosh, Wis., in 1881, where he remained until coming to Helena in 1883. Mr. Weed has been eminently successful at the bar, and has frequently been honored with responsible offices; was Deputy District Attorney for Lewis and Clarke County in 1885 and 1886; was Assistant United States District Attorney from 1886 to 1888, and when Montana was admitted as a State Mr. Weed was appointed by President Harrison as United States District Attorney, the commission being issued March 14, 1889. Mr. Weed is a single

JAMES H. MILLS, Collector of Internal Revenue for the District of Montana, was born at New Lisbon, O., December 21, 1837, of American parents. The removal of his family to Pittsburgh, Pa., enabled him to receive a common school education, which was later augmented by practical commercial experience. His first business venture was in the sale of timber in Elk and Jefferson Counties, which offered a field for profitable operation up to the commencement of the rebellion. On the call for men Mr. Mills enlisted in the Eleventh Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers. Early in his war service he was promoted to a First Lieutenancy, and later was breveted Major and Lieutenant-Colonel. Shortly after being mustered out of an honorable service he started westward, joining a party which started from Omaha, and, traversing the Tongue River and Bozeman route, arrived in Helena early in 1866. He mined for a time in Emigrant