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term in the Senate. the 18th of last March,
he was employed as assistant division ceun-
sci for the Southern railway, with head
quarters at Ashevii1e, Nae and was so en-
gagged when appointed by President Roose-
welt associate justice ofsshe Supreme Court
of the District of Columbia, to fill the va
cancy caused by the elevation of Justice
Clabaugh to the chief justiceship. Justice
Pritchard was recently married to Miss
Lillian S. Saum of this city.
The Junior, Member.
Justice Wright. the Junior member of the
court, began his duties only recently, the
oath of office having been administered to
him the 23d of last November. Already he
has shown that he is a jurist Of ability and
one who win act promptly in dealing with
all matters taken before, him. He presides
both in Criminal Court No and the Pro-
bate Court. Justice Wright was selected
to succeed Justice Hagner. retired
Daniel Thew Wright. who is thirty-nine
years of age, was born September "a, 1864
at Riverside Hamilton county, Ohio, where
he resided until removing to this city last
month. He is of the third generation oil
his family who have devoted themselves to
the profession of the law in Cincinnati
active practice. having been judge of the
supreme court of the state of Ohio; his
grandfather, Nathaniel Wright, until his
retirement In the early f0s, also ranking as
d
In his youth he attended the public schools
of Cincinnati graduating in 1885 from
Hughes High School and in 1887 from the
law department of the Cincinnati Univer-
sity In 1888 he was elected village solic-
itor of Riverside, his native town. and in
the same year was appointed by joint
session of the common pleas, probate ano
superior courts of Cincinnati to be second
assistant prosecuting attorney of Hamilton
county In 1890 he was elected mayor OF
Riverside and in 1892 reelected for second
term, and during that year was selected
by the same courts to be first assistant
prosecuting attorney of the county.
In 1892. at the age of twenty-eight, ne
was elected to five-year term as judge OF
the court of common pleas of Hamilton
county, a court of practically the same
jurisdiction as that of which he Is now
member.
Tpon the expiration of the term, in De-
cember, 1897, he resumed the general prac'
tice of the law. making his specially tha'
of a trial lawyer, and as such was regu-
iarly associated with lawyers of ONO, IN
diana and Kentucky. He was particularly
devoted to practice in the federal courts.
Justice Wright holds the distinction OF
being the youngest man ever Judge OF the
common pleas court in the state OF ono
and is said since leaving that bench &c
have conducted in that court the case III
which was returned the largest Veralc,
ever rendered in Hamilton county IN sun
for personal injuries.
Justice Wrieht's wife was Miss Alice Will
liams of Riverside, their three daughters
Misses Gladys. Claire and Alice, being aseo
respectively, fifteen, thirteen and clever
years. ,:., .,
Justice Wright is an ardent disciple OF
Nimrod and Isaak Walton, ana OF Newton
as we'll his residence at Rivefslae pelne
eouinned with a complete observatory con-
tanning three and five-inch achromatic ane
an eisbt-inch reflector astronomical teie.
scopes. He is proud of miniature arseha
of sporting pieces which iro"hs lroih LIZ
wall of his study.