a long life of constant professional battle, that neither reproach nor resentment attaches to his memory, but we mourn his loss in all the sincerity of affection and esteem.

Mr. Follett was an earnest member of this body, constant in attendance, never shirking duty, and effective in aid of its general and specific objects. It was one of our annual pleasures to meet him here, because his presence always had a wholesome cheeriness. Keble's verse can be fitly applied to him as one

of those who

"Carry music in their heart.

Through dusty lane and wrangling mart,

Plying their daily task with busier feet

Because their inward souls a secret strain repeat."

July 7, 1902.

MEMORIAL OF M. C. READ, A. M.

S. R. Harris, Chairman of the Committee on Legal Biography, furnished the following memorial of M. C. Read, A. M., taken chiefly from The Hudson Independent. Mr. Harris took more than ordinary interest in this memorial for the reason that they were classmates at college.

Matthew Canfield Read was born in Williamsfield, Ashtabula County, Ohio, August 21, 1823. His parents, Ira and Mary Read, were natives of Massachusetts, and came to Ohio in 1813. His boyhood days were spent on the farm; but with a great desire for an education, at the age of eighteen he entered the Western Reserve Academy at Farmington, and later the Grand River Institute.

In 1844 he entered the Western Reserve College at Hudson, and in four years graduated from that institution of learning. For a time he taught a select school at Columbus, Ohio, and later the Academy at Gustavus, Trumbull County, Ohio. After one year of teaching here Mr. Read decided to enter the law profession and in the office of Chaffee & Woodberry of Jefferson, Ashtabula County, Ohio, he prepared for admission to the bar. Having completed the study of law he was called to the editorship of the "Family Visitor," a journal of considerable importance published at Hudson. While directing the affairs of that paper, he taught the Grammar School in Western Reserve College for one year.

August 28, 1851, he married Orissa E. Andrews, daughter of William Andrews, an attorney of Homer, N. Y. The fruits of this union were four children, William H. Read, an attorney

of Toledo, Ohio,; Charles P., Mary O. and Janet A., who still reside at home with their mother.

He began the practice of law, but at the outbreak of the war, he became identified with the Sanitary Commission, and was with the army of the Cumberland until they reached Chattanooga, where he was stationed until the great sanguinary struggle was closed. In all his efforts he had been successful, but in this new capacity as agent of the United States Sanitary Commission at the front, he distinguished himself by establishing as his own conception, a hospital garden which furnished all the vegetables for the sick of the Army of the Cumberland during the last two years of the war. After the close of the war he was appointed Deputy Revenue Collector during the administration of President Johnson. In 1869 Mr. Read was appointed on the State Geological Surveying Corps, and continued a member in the field until the survey was completed. For this work he was preeminently fitted.

In 1869 he was also appointed Lecturer on Zoology and Practical Geology in Western Reserve College; this position he held until 1882, from which year he devoted his time to the practice of his profession and special geological surveys, and as an expert geologist visited Arizona, Utah, Lake Superior and other places. All the record of these years is an indication of his rare scholarship. In addition to the editorship of the "Family Visitor," he also published several important and valuable volumes, among them, "Archæology of Ohio," and "History of Ohio Judiciary." Also had in manuscript form ready to be published by Harper Bros., but destroyed in the fire of 1892 a work on Political Economy, also the history of the Sanitary Commission. His literary work included numerous contributions to the various scientific magazines.

Mr. Read was also one of the originators and a charter member of the "American Forestry Association," which is now so important an organization in this country. As further evidence of Mr. Read's wide scholarship, he was a member of the "Philadelphia Academy of Science," "The New York Historical Society," "The Cleveland and Western Reserve Historical Society," "The Kirkland Academy of Science," "The American Forestry Association," and in 1876 he was in charge of the Ohio Archæological Exhibit at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, and in 1884 filled the same position at the Cotton Exposition in New Orleans. Upon graduation from Western Reserve College in 1848 he received the degree of A. B., and in 1850 his Alma Mater conferred upon him the degree of A. M.

In politics Mr. Read was a Republican. Growing up under the influence of such great statesmen as Benjamin Wade and Joshua R. Giddings, it is not so strange that he should be staunch and even strenuous in this faith and practice. He regarded the exercises of franchise as a sacred duty, and only twice did he fail to vote, once while at Chattanooga during the war, and once when on other duty outside the state, but was never absent during a national election.

He died at nine o'clock Sunday morning, June 15, 1902, being the last but one of a class of fifteen that graduated from Western Reserve College, and the last of a coterie of college men, among whom were Presidents Pierce, Hitchcock, Cutler, and Professors Seymour, Barrows, St. John, Loomis, and Bartlett.

MEMORIAL ON GUSTAVUS H. WALD.

PREPARED BY CHARLES WILBY, OF THE CINCINNATI BAR, AND W. B. HENDERSON, OF THE COLUMBUS BAR.

Gustavus Henry Wald died suddenly of heart disease at his home in Cincinnati, on June 28th, 1902.

He was a member of the Ohio State Bar Association from 1882 and a constant attendant at its meetings, where his presence brought not only wise counsel and able discussion of all questions to which he addressed himself, but also good cheer and companionship. At the time of his death, he was one of the Vice-Presidents of the Association.

He was born on March 30th, 1853, in the city of Cincinnati, where he attended the public schools, and graduated from Hughes High School in the class of 1869. Thereupon he went to Yale, where he graduated in 1873. He studied law in the Harvard Law School, where he received his degree in 1875, and was at the same time admitted to practice by the Supreme Court of Massachusetts. Returning to Cincinnati, he took up the law as a profession, going into the office of the Hon. George Hoadly, and in 1876 formed with Charles B. Wilby the firm of Wilby & Wald, which continued until his death.

Mr. Wald's success at the bar was soon assured, and he early took a position as one of its leaders. In the local Bar Association and in all things pertaining to the well-being of his profession, he took a prominent part. Whether at the bar or in the Bar Associations, no one was left in any doubt as to his position on any subject. He came to his conclusions on legal and political matters after a thorough research and on logical principies, and, having reached a conclusion, he maintained it in a kindly but manly manner.