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March 10 to March 12: Judges White, Johnston, McIlvaine, Doyle, and Okey.

March 14 to December 7: Judges Upson, Johnson, McIlvaine, Doyle, and Okey.

December 8 to February 9, 1884: Judges Owen, Johnston, McIlvaine, Follett, and Okey.

February 9, 1884, to February 9, 1885: Judges Johnson, McIlvaine, Okey, Follett, and Owen.

February 9, to July 25, 1885: Judges McIlvaine, Okey, Follett, Owen, and Johnson (re-elected).

August 20 to December 15, 1885: Judges McIlvaine, Atherton, Follett, Owen, and Johnson.

December 16, 1885, to February 9, 1886: Judges McIlvaine, Follett, Spear, Owen and Johnson.

The death of Judge Okey on the 25th day of July, 1885, created a vacancy in the court which was filled by the appointment of Gibson Atherton, of Licking County, who took his seat on the 20th day of August. The October elections resulted in the election of William T. Spear, of Trumbull County, to fill the unexpired term of Judge Okey, and he qualified and took his seat on the 16th day of December, Judge Atherton retiring. At the same election Thaddeus A. Minshall, of Ross County, was elected for the full term of five years to succeed Judge McIlvaine, and these two members of the court have, by repeated re-elections by the people, been continued on the bench of the Supreme Court to the present time. Judge Johnson resigned November 9, 1886, and Franklin J. Dickman, of Cuyahoga County, was appointed to fill the vacancy until the next general election. He took his seat November 16. In October previous, Marshall J. Williams, of Fayette County, was elected to succeed Judge Follett. In 1887 Judge Spear was re-elected for a full term and in 1888 Joseph P. Bradbury, of Gallia County, was elected to succeed Judge Owen. Judge Dickman was re-elected in 1889, Judge Minshall was re-elected in 1890 and Judge Williams in 1891. In the elections of 1892, under a new law, by which the membership of the court was increased from five members to six, and the terms of office from five years to six, two members of the court were elected in the persons of Judge Spear for the long term of six years and Jacob F. Burket, of Hancock County, for five years. Judge Bradbury was re-elected in 1893; John A. Shauck, of Montgomery County, was elected in October, 1894, to succeed Judge Dickman. From 1894 to 1899 the sitting judges were reelected to succeed themselves without exception, and consequently no changes occurred in the personnel of the court. In November, 1899, William Z. Davis, of Marion County, was elected to succeed Judge

Historical Sketch of the Judges of the Supreme Court.

Bradbury, who resigned January 10, 1900, a month before the expiration of his term. Judge-elect Davis was appointed to succeed him, and thus went on the bench a month earlier than the time for which he had been elected. In November, 1900, Judge Shauck was re-elected and entered on his present term February 9, 1901. The personnel of the Supreme Court of Ohio for the period between February 9, 1886, and February 9, 1901, (a period of fifteen years) was, therefore:

February 9, to November 9, 1886: Judges Owen, C. J., Follett, Spear, Johnson, and Minshall.

November 10, 1886, to February 9, 1887: Judges Owen, C. J., Follett, Dickman, Spear and Minshall.

February 9, 1887, to February 9, 1888: Judges Owen, C. J., Dickman, Spear, Minshall, and Williams.

February 9, 1888, to February 9, 1889: Judges Owen, C. J., Dickman, Minshall, Spear and Williams.

February 9, 1899, to February 9, 1890: Judges Minshall, C. J., Dickman, Spear, Williams and Bradbury.

February 9, 1890, to February 9, 1891: Judges Minshall, C. J., Williams, Spear, Bradbury, and Dickman.

February 9, 1891, to February 9, 1892: Judges Williams, C. J., Spear, Bradbury, Dickman and Minshall.

February 9, 1892, to February 9, 1893: Judges Spear, C. J., Bradbury, Dickman, Minshall and Williams.

February 9, 1893, to February 9, 1894: Judges Bradbury, C. J., Dickman, Minshall, Williams, Burket, and Spear.

February 9, 1894, to February 9, 1895: Judges Dickman, C. J., Minshall, Williams, Burket, Spear, and Bradbury.

February 9, 1895, to February 9, 1896: Judges Minshall, C. J., Williams, Burket, Spear, Bradbury and Shauck.

February 9, 1896, to February 9, 1897: Judges Williams, C. J., Burket, Spear, Bradbury, Shauck, and Minshall.

February 9, 1897, to February 9, 1898: Judges Burket, C. J., Spear, Bradbury, Shauck, Minshall, and Williams.

February 9, 1898, to February 9, 1899: Judges Spear, C. J., Bradbury, Shauck, Minshall, Williams, and Burket.

February 9, 1899, to January 10, 1900: Judges Bradbury, C. J., Shauck, Minshall, Williams, Burket, and Spear.

January 10, 1900, to February 9, 1900: Judges Shauck, C. J., Minshall, Williams, Burket, Spear and Davis (by appointment).

February 9, 1900, to February 9, 1901: Judges Shauck, C. J., Minshall, Williams, Burket, Spear, and Davis (by election).

February 9, 1901, to February 9, 1902: Judges Minshall, C. J., Wil

liams, Burket, Spear, Davis and Shauck.

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In November, 1901, James L. Price, of Allen County, Chief Justice of the Circuit Courts of Ohio, was elected to the Supreme Court to succeed Judge Minshall, and took his seat February 9, 1902. Chief Justice Williams died in July, 1902, and on the 19th of the month Governor Nash appointed to the vacancy Judge William B. Crew, of Morgan County, who was the candidate for Judge of the Supreme Court on the Republican State ticket, and who was in November, 1902, elected to succeed himself for the full term.

In November, 1902, Judge Augustus N. Summers of the Circuit Court was elected to succeed Judge Jacob F. Burket, who retired February 9, 1904.

The personnel of the Supreme Court from February 9, 1901, to date of publication, was as follows:

February 9, to July 7, 1902: Judges Williams, C. J., Burket, Spear, Davis, Shauck and Price.

August 21, 1902, to February 9, 1904: Judges Burket, C. J., Spear, Davis, Shauck, Price and Crew.

February 9, 1904, to February 9, 1905, Judges Spear, C. J., Davis, Schauck, Price, Crew and Summers.

THE SUPREME COURT COMMISSIONS.

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HE power of the General Assembly to assist in disposing of the work before the Supreme Court of Ohio by the formation of "Supreme Court Commissions" (Section 21, Article IV), has been invoked twice since the adoption of the present Constitution of Ohio. The appointment of the members of this commission has been vested in the Governor in both instances.

THE COMMISSIOn of 1876.

On the 2d day of February, 1876, the Governor appointed as such Supreme Court Commission, to serve for three years, Josiah Scott, of Crawford County; William W. Johnson, of Lawrence County; D. Thew Wright, of Hamilton County; Richard A. Harrison, of Franklin County; Henry C. Whitman, of Hamilton County; and Luther Day, of Portage County. Mr. Harrison refused to accept the appointment and Thomas Q. Ashburn, of Clermont County, was appointed in his stead, and took his seat on the bench on the 16th of March, 1878.

This commission sat until the 2d day of February, 1879, as an auxiliary to the Supreme Court, and assisted in bringing up the docket which had fallen far behind the reasonable time for trial.

THE COMMISSION OF 1883.

In 1883, the Governor again appointed a commission of five members under an enabling act of the General Assembly, and this commission began its work on the 17th day of April, 1883, and continued on the bench for the period of two years. The commission of 1883 consisted of Moses M. Granger, of Muskingum County, C. J., Geo. K. Nash, of Franklin County; Franklin J. Dickman, of Cuyahoga County; Charles D. Martin, of Fairfield County; and John McCauley, of Seneca County. This commission adjourned April 16, 1885.