formed between them in other days were maintained throughout Mr. Deweese's career at the bar. His profession was an absorbing passion and the bar libraries of Baltimore and Philadelphia knew him almost as well as his own office. He was tireless in study and research, whether undertaken for clients or academic interest, and doubtless the overtaxe forces of nature insisted upon the penalty. Preferment of any kind aside from the law he never sought nor would ac

cept.

EDWARD C. EICHELBERGER.

Edward Cary Eichelberger was born November 1, 1850, at "Angerona," Winchester, Va., and died January 2, 1906, at "Hilton," his residence in Walbrook, Baltimore City. He was the youngest son of Rev. Lewis Frederick Eichelberger, D. D., LL. D., a prominent minister of the Lutheran Church, and Penelope Lynn L. B. J. Hay Eichelberger, daughter of Judge John Hay of Glenmore, Charles County, Va., and Mary S. Maury, niece of Commodore Matthew F. Maury, United States Navy.

The death of his father, when he was only nine years old, threw the responsibility of his early training upon his mother; and the fidelity and care with which she performed this obligation was always recognized by Mr. Eichelberger, and was manifested by him in the affectionate solicitude for her every comfort, with which he surrounded her declining years.

Mrs. Eichelberger removed from Winchester to Baltimore at the close of the Civil War and Mr. Eichelberger at first began the study of medicine in the office of Prof. J. W. Dunbar, also taking the medical course at the University of Maryland. But having decided preference for the profession of law, he relinquished his medical studies after a year, and began the study of law in the office of Abraham Sharp,

Esq., with such success that he was admitted to the Baltimore bar January 2, 1874, to the Maryland Court of Appeals May, 1876, and to the Supreme Court of the United States. in 1881. Mr. Eichelberger's death occurred on the thirtysecond anniversary of his admission to the bar. During the thirty-two years of his practice he demonstrated the wisdom of his choice of a profession. He won the respect and esteem of the bench and bar and of the community in which he lived. His practice constantly increased and at the time of his death was large and lucrative.

Many important interests were entrusted to him. He was a member of the Maryland State Bar Association and of the Bar Association of Baltimore City, in both of which he took a deep interest and did valuable work upon various committees.

By appointment of the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City, he served for a number of years as a member of the committee to examine candidates for admission to the bar, when such examinations were conducted in open court in the presence of the Supreme Bench.

Mr. Eichelberger was connected with a number of fraternal and social organizations, including the Ben Franklin Lodge of Masons, the American Mechanics, the Sons of the American Revolution and the Royal Arcanum. For two years he was the Grand Regent of the Supreme Council of the Royal Arcanum, and his indefatigable labors in behalf of this order are supposed to have greatly impaired his health.

In the development of Walbrook, a suburb of Baltimore City, where he lived the last twenty-five years of his life, he took great interest, being one of the first presidents of the Walbrook Improvement Association and foremost in every effort which had for its object the improvement of that neighborhood as well as the whole city of Baltimore.

Mr. Eichelberger was an active member of the Presbyterian Association of Baltimore and a member and communicant of the Walbrook Presbyterian Church. Its beautiful

new building, the corner-stone of which was laid by him only a few months before his death, and while he was suffering with mortal disease, is conceded by the residents of that section to have been due to his persistent and unremitting

energy.

Mr. Eichelberger was a careful, prudent, excellent lawyer and a good citizen, whose many good deeds will live after him. He had few enemies and many friends.

In 1879 Mr. Eichelberger married Julia H. Sanderson, daughter of Thomas Sanderson of "The Plains," Baltimore County. More than twenty years of their married life was spent at "Hilton," where his widow and five children still reside. He was devoted to his home and family, and dedicated his best efforts to the promotion of their welfare and happiness, no sacrifice in their behalf was too great for him to make. He was of a social and kindly nature and loved to have his friends and neighbors partake of his generous hospitality.

Only a day or so ago a friend said, "Mr. Eichelberger's public spirit, untiring energy, generous hospitality, and blameless home life are greatly missed by the people of Walbrook and all who knew him."

ROGER T. EDMONDS.

Roger Tryon Edmonds was born in Sharpsburg, Washington County, Maryland, May 2, 1873, and died at St. Luke's Hospital in the City of Baltimore, where he had gone for treatment, March 27, 1907. He was the son of Jacob R. and Etta (Hill) Edmonds. He grew to manhood in the village in which he was born. He was educated in the public schools of his native county and later took a course in the Millersville Normal School, preparatory to teaching. For a number of years he taught in the public schools of Washington County, and his spare hours and vacation months he de

voted to the study of law. He registered himself as a student with Abraham C. Strite and in August, 1897, he was regularly admitted to the bar and continued in active practice up to the time of his death. He married Miss Manie Funk in February, 1896, and his widow and three young children survive him.

Mr. Edmonds was essentially a self-made man. His early opportunities for fitting himself for his life's work were modest and limited, but he made the most of them, and to his credit it can truthfully be said that he had already attained a position of honorable prominence as a citizen and practicing lawyer in the community in which he lived. His care in the preparation of legal papers, his close attention to details, his systematic methods of work and his courteous and affable manner toward those with whom he came in contact soon won him friends and clients. His tastes inclined him toward corporation practice, and he became identified with many of the leading industries of Hagerstown formed in recent years. Had his vitality been equal to his energy and force of character, an eminent and successful career at the bar would certainly have been his.

Mr. Edmonds always took an active interest in the Republican politics of Washington County, but he never aspired to an elective office. At the time of his death he was holding the position of court auditor, to which he had been appointed by Judge M. L. Keedy, and he discharged his official duties. to the entire satisfaction of the bench and bar.

His private life was exemplary. He was active in the work of Trinity Lutheran Church of Hagerstown. In his home life it may well be said that happiness reigned and contentment had its abiding-place. He was never so busy that he did not find time to entertain his friends in his comfortable home which he had built for himself in the suburbs of Hagerstown only a few years before his death. He seemed to have the happy faculty of making friends easily and holding them fast to him, despite the fact that he was never

physically strong, many times greeting a caller with a smile and a cheery hand-shake, while feeling sick enough to be in his bed. His determination to succeed was his greatest support and he fought death as if he could master it as he had done many other obstacles in his life's pathway before, and it might be said of him that he died upon his feet, at his desk and at his work. Thus passed out a young life full of hope and promise of reward, and the regret of a large circle of friends followed him to his grave, regret that he could not have lived so that his labors might have borne their fruitage. in due season.

RICHARD D. HYNSON.

Within the space of a few months the members of this association and particularly the members of the bars of the second judicial circuit have been called upon to mourn the loss of several of their most prominent members, both of the bench and the bar. They have had to note the dropping away from among them, in close sequence, not only of honored and distinguished men whose race in the course of human events was necessarily nearly run, but of those whose early and marked demonstration of unusual legal equipment had drawn more than local attention to the rich professional life that seemed to be before them.

The last one to fall out of the ranks of the bar in the prime of manhood was Richard Dunn Hynson, who died at Chestertown, Kent County, Maryland, on June 2, 1907, in the forty-second year of his age. He was born forty-two years ago the 10th of June. He was the son of the late Richard Hynson, one of Kent County's most prominent lawyers and influential citizens in his day. He was educated in the schools of his native town, and at Washington College, from which he graduated in 1883. After a course in law at the Maryland University, which he completed in 1886, he re