The name of HON. LEWIS B. GUNCKEL was preserved by Mr. Harris among his data. He died October 3, 1903, but by reference to the mortuary list contained in the last volume of the proceedings of this Association, it will be found that no memorial had been prepared for him. Mr. Harris with his usual care had noted the absence of such memorial and had prepared to call the attention of the Association to the same, and to ask that the following sketch taken from one of the city papers of Dayton, Ohio, be inserted in the proceedings of this Association. The sketch I here append:

HON L. B. GUNCKEL DEAD.

HON. LEWIS B. GUNCKEL, an uncle of John E. Gunckel of this city, and a prominent lawyer, politician and philanthropist, died very suddenly at his home in Dayton, Saturday morning, October 3, 1903, of heart failure, superinduced by an attack of pneumonia.

Mr. Gunckel was the law partner of Colonel E. L. Rowe for thirty years, and in his death the city has lost one of its most worthy citizens and the bar one of its greatest exponents. Mr. Gunckel was born in Germantown, O., October 15, 1826, and was the oldest living member of the Gunckel family. In 1862 he was elected to the Ohio State Senate, serving during the war in the important position of chairman of the judiciary committee, and was instrumental in the founding of the Soldiers' Home at Dayton. He was elected to Congress in 1872 and was a prominent member of the military committee of that session. He was a delegate to the National Bar Association for three successive years, and since his retirement from active business, has been prominent in charitable and public work of various kinds.

Mr. Gunckel is survived by his wife and son, Lewis W. Gunckel, and a daughter, Miss Katherine Gunckel. The funeral occurred this afternoon at 3 o'clock from his late residence in Dayton.

He next notes the death of HON. WARREN P. NOBLE, who died July 9, 1903, and whose death was reported to this Association at the session last year, but no memorial given at that time. Mr. Harris has noted that a memorial of Mr. Noble is contained in the Law Bulletin of July 27, 1903. He was a member of this Association, but had never filled in one of the blanks preserved by the Committee on Legal Biography, and I therefore append the sketch as taken from the Bulletin of that date, and ask that the same be printed in the proceedings of the Association:

HON WARREN P. NOBLE.

SENECA COUNTY BAR MEMORIAL.

The Seneca County Bar Association, Thursday, July 9, 1903, at 10 o'clock a. m., met in the Common Pleas Court room at Tiffin, to take action upon the death of the Nestor of the Seneca county bar-Hon. Warren P. Noble. Mr. N. L. Brewer acted as chairman, and paid a glowing tribute to the memory of their deceased brother. Messrs. N. L. Brewer, G. B. Keppel and J. C. Royer were appointed to draw resolutions and submitted the following beautiful memorial:

The familiar form of the Hon. Warren P. Noble has passed away. The beautiful life of this honored citizen, courteous gentleman and eminent lawyer has ended.

He was a highly esteemed citizen of this city for over sixty-one years, took an active and substantial part in everything looking to the growth, advancement and betterment of the city.

He was honored by the people as their representative in the State Legislature and in the Congress of the United States in the trying times of the Civil war, and in every trust imposed upon him discharged his duties fearlessly, faithfully and with the greatest fidelity to the best interest of the people. He had a good word for everybody, was courteous, kind and affable in his everyday walk, and no one was more widely known or will be more greatly missed than he.

Earnest in the advocacy of his cause, painstaking in its preparation both as to the law and the evidence, with an energy that knew no limitation, with a large and lucrative practice extending over a period of sixty years embracing every phase of the law, with a mind clear and comprehensive, a sound judgment, meeting and coping with the giants of his day, he, in all these years, stood in the highest rank of his profession, an example worthy of all imitation a fit representative of the profession of the law.

Ripe in years, rich in good words and works, loved and esteemed as a citizen, an honorable and honored member of this bar, a courteous gentleman, he has passed away, leaving to this community, this bar, and his family-the rich inheritance of a long, eventful and well spent life, an unsullied character and a good name.

The bar tender to the bereaved family their sincerest condolence and sympathy in this hour of sorrow and sadness.

That this memorial be published in our city papers and we request the judges of the several courts of the county to cause

the same to be spread upon their respective records, and a copy be sent to the family of the deceased.

That the bar attend the funeral in a body.

JUDGE HENRY COLLINGS, of Manchester, Ohio, died February 28, 1904. He was a member of the Association, but no memorandum can be found among the files of the Association regarding his life. It is hoped that some suitable memorial may be prepared regarding him.

Mr. Harris calls attention, in his uncompleted report to the death of J. T. GREER, of Toledo, who died March 26, 1904, and MR. J. H. EWING, of Cleveland, who died May 21, 1903, but no memorial has ever been presented of either of these members.

JULIUS G. POMERENE, of Cleveland, Ohio, a member of this Association, died July 25, 1903. The following facts relative to his life have been preserved in volume 2, page 28, of the Autobiographies of the members of this Association: He was born in Holmes County, Ohio, September 10, 1845; he was admitted to the bar in Canton, Ohio, at the June term of the District Court in 1868; he was married to Elizabeth Deppen in Illinois on the 14th day of March, 1870. They had three children, two daughters, Lura M. and Susie, and one son, Julius Pomerene, now living. He was a member of the Annual City Board of Equalization of the city of Cleveland, and later was a State Senator from the 25th District. His education was that of the public schools and academic, and he was a graduate of the University of Michigan Law School.

MALCOLM G. DAVIES, a member of the bar of Cincinnati, was born October 23, 1849, in England. He was admitted to the bar of Ohio in the month of March, 1897. He was married on the 23d day of January, 1889, to Katharine H. Herzog. They had one son and one daughter who are still living. He was for nine years justice of the peace and four years police justice in Avondale, a suburb of Cincinnati. He was educated in the common schools of the State. He came from England when a child to the United States. He lived in New York until he was 21 years of age with his father, then five years in Tennessee, and since that time to the time of his death he has resided in Avondale. He became a member of this Association in July, 1902, and died on the 12th day of October, 1904.

JUDGE HENRY C. WHITE, of Cleveland, Ohio, was born in Newburg, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, February 23, 1839. He was admitted to the bar September 2, 1863, by the District Court of Cuyahoga County, Ohio, at Cleveland. He was married June 12, 1866, to Sabrina N. Capron, at Auburn, Geauga

County, Ohio. He was Deputy Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Cuyahoga County, Ohio, from 1864 to 1874. He was elected Probate Judge of that county in November, 1887. His official term first began February 9, 1888, and he continued in that office from that time until the date of his death on the

15th day of January, 1905. He spent four years at the Western Reserve Electic Institute at Hiram, Portage County, Ohio. He graduated from the Law Department of the University of Michigan in the month of March, 1862.

HON. JOHN G. McGUFFEY, Dean of the bar of Columbus, Ohio, was born September 10, 1832, in Franklin County, Ohio, and was admitted to the bar at Cincinnati in the month of April, 1859. He was married September 10, 1862, to Eliza H. Snow, daughter of Rev. William T. Snow, of Worthington, Ohio, to whom two daughters were born which still survive. He never applied for nor held any official position. He says in the sketch prepared by his own hand and on file with the Association that he was "educated in the fields and woods at work until grown. Graduated from the University at Athens in the class of 1857 and from the Cincinnati Law in class of 1858 and 1859." He commenced the practice of law in Columbus, Ohio, in October, 1859, and so continued to the date of his death which occurred on the 30th day of June, A. D. 1905.

These are all the names which have been handed to me by the District Committeemen and also transmitted to me with the papers of Mr. Harris. There are others who have died since our last session and their deaths should be reported to this committee.

I close this with the words of Mr. Harris used in the report he was preparing for this Association at this session regarding the number who have gone. He said: "It is noticeable that Father Time, with his scythe in one hand and his hour-glass in the other, has spared the members of our Association for the past year to an unusual degree."

Could he but have lived until this session and have met with us he would have been compelled to have changed his conclusion, for compared with previous years, the mortality has been heavy among the membership of this Association.

Respectfully submitted,

SMITH W. BENNETT,

Chairman Protem.

THE PRESIDENT: I do not know that any action is necessary on this report. It becomes a part of the proceedings. Is there any unfinished business? If not, the next in order is the report of the Committee on Nomination of Officers for this Association. Is that committee ready to report?

THE SECRETARY: I have the report.

THE PRESIDENT: Please read it, Mr. McCarter.

PUT-IN-BAY, July 13, 1905.

The Nominating Committee beg leave to report the following nominations:

President-Edward Kibler, Newark.

Secretary-Edward B. McCarter, Columbus.
Treasurer-Clement R. Gilmore, Dayton.

JOHN MCCAULEY, Chairman.
A. R. JOHNSON, Secretary.

THE PRESIDENT: What will you do with this report?

GOVERNOR JONES: I move that it be received and the Secretary be instructed to cast the ballot for the persons named by the committee.

Motion seconded and carried.

The Secretary thereupon cast the vote of the Association. for the gentlemen named for the respective offices. They were declared to have been elected.

THE PRESIDENT: I desire to announce that the members of the committee to coöperate with the Commissioner of Insurance in regard to matters relating to service of process on insurance associations are:

H. B. Arnold, Columbus.

Senator S. H. West, Bellefontaine.
C. D. Robertson, Cincinnati.

MR. SMITH BENNETT: I move you, Mr. President, that the Committee on Legal Education be directed to prepare a bill and present the same at the coming General Assembly, changing the requirements as now contained in the statute defining the preliminary education for examination for admission to the bar, so that the statute vill comply with the require