church to whose service he gave his life effort. He died at Norborne, Missouri, at the advanced age of ninety-one years. The mother is yet living, aged seventy-eight years. Their son, Morton Jourdan, passed the greater part of his early life in Chillicothe, Missouri, and there received his literary education, graduating from the high school when fifteen years of age. He supplemented his studies with a broad course of instructive reading of his own selection, affording him ample equipment for all the purposes of a professional life and for the other duties of life devolving upon him. On leaving school he entered the office of the late Honorable C. H. Mansur, under whose tutorship he read law for four years, and at the same time laid the foundations of a steadfast and lifelong intimate friendship. When but nineteen years of age he was admitted to the bar at Chillicothe, Missouri, and his admission at so early an age attracted wide attention, and afforded him a high and immediate prestige. In June, 1884, he removed to Norborne, Carroll County, Missouri, and engaged in a practice in which he achieved signal success. At the same time he was intent upon further advancement in his profession, and he devoted all his spare time to the acquisition of all attainable professional knowledge. His talent and ability found recognition in high professional circles, and in 1893 he received the appointment of assistant attorney general of Missouri. He occupied this position for four years, and during this time was constantly engaged before the Supreme Court of the State, in connection with some of the most important litigation which has ever come before that tribunal. In 1896 he was presented before the State convention for the nomination for Attorney General, but was defeated after a close contest. On his retirement from office in 1897 the Supreme Court ordered. spread upon its records its thanks and appreciation of his able and faithful service. This action was entirely without precedent, and was the highest compliment ever paid a lawyer in Missouri. While Mr. Jourdan had during his official term greatly broadened his knowledge of law and gained an enviable prestige, it had been, however, at the expense of his immediate interests. Owing to the necessary abandonment of his personal practice and his candidacy for Attorney General, he found himself with few assets and much

indebtedness. With this capital he removed to St. Louis and opened a law office January 1, 1897. During these four years he has built up an extensive and remunerative practice, and come to be known as one of the most continually occupied and successful lawyers in St. Louis, before the most important courts, in general practice, and in cases affecting large commercial and financial corporations. His industry and energy are phenomenal. He maintains his early country habits, and is found at his office at 8 o'clock each morning, and never absents himself except to attend to court duties, until 6 o'clock in the evening, and often carrying his work into the hours of the night. He never indulges in a vacation, yet enjoys superb health. He finds his recreation in one of the most beautiful homes on Forest Park Boulevard, and in the social companionships of the St. Louis Club and the Mercantile Club, in both of which he holds membership. He is an uncompromising Democrat, and affords his party his most strenuous effort, solely for sake of principle, and without thought of personal advantage or political advancement. Since 1880 he has been a delegate in almost every State convention, and he has made many nominating speeches, notable among these efforts being one in which he named his intimate friend Chief Justice Gantt for re-election to the Supreme bench in 1900. During the same period he has been a vigorous and favorite speaker in every political campaign, and has spoken in every county in Missouri save four. He holds to no church, but is a firm believer in the tenets of christianity as taught by his father and Alexander Campbell. His ideal of true manhood is loyalty to friends. He is courageous and fearless in his advocacy of what he deems to be right, whether in professional, social or personal affairs, and is regardless of criticism of his conduct or views, except as they may affect a friend.

Mr. Jourdan is married. His family consists of wife, daughter, Miss Byrd, and his mother. His wife, a lady of education and. culture, takes special interest in art, history and music; his daughter is regarded as one of the leading musicians of St. Louis; his mother is a devout Christian woman.

Joy, Charles Frederick, lawyer and Congressman, was born December 11, 1849,

own judge, chosen by the people, and holding office for six years. The circuit of St. Louis consists of five judges, each sitting separately. The probate courts are county courts having charge of probate business, administration of estates, appointment of guardians and curators and business appertaining thereto.

County courts are courts of record, which have charge of the administration of the county affairs, the management of roads and bridges, the levying of taxes, care of the county property, care of paupers and insane persons, and the management of elections. The county court is composed of three judges, one of whom is the presiding judgeall chosen by the people. The presiding judge holds office for four years, the others for two years.

Judson, Frederick N., lawyer, was born October 7, 1845, in the town of St. Mary's, Georgia, son of Dr. Frederick J. and Catharine (Chapelle) Judson. He is a lineal descendant of William Judson, who was the first settler at Stratford, Connecticut, he having made settlement at that place in 1634. Dr. Frederick J. Judson, who died in Bridgeport, Connecticut, in 1862, was for many years. president of the board of education and of the public library board of the last named city, and was a prominent and worthy citizen. His wife, the mother of Frederick N. Judson, of St. Louis, was of southern nativity, having been the daughter of Dr. Newton Chapelle, of St. Mary's Georgia. After being thoroughly well fitted for a university course, Mr. Judson entered Yale College in 1862, and was graduated as valedictorian of his class in 1866. After that he was for some time a teacher of the classics in New Haven, and in Nashville, Tennessee, and while thus engaged began the study of law. He completed his law course at Washington University, of St. Louis, entering the senior class at that institution, and being graduated therefrom with the degree of bachelor of laws in the class of 1871. Admitted to the bar, he entered upon his professional labors in St. Louis, and has since been engaged in successful practice, impressing himself both upon the bar and general public as a lawyer of superior attainments and high character. The first public office which he ever held was that of private secretary to Governor B. Gratz Brown, while that dis

tinguished Missourian was serving as Governor of his State, Mr. Judson holding this confidential relationship to the Governor from 1871 to 1873. He was a member of the board of public schools of St. Louis from 1878 to 1882, and again in 1887, and was president of the board from 1880 to 1882, and from 1887 to 1889. He has taken an active part in procuring legislation for the public good. He was author of the law of 1879, securing the school lands of St. Louis as a permanent fund, and of the act of 1887 reorganizing the St. Louis school board; was also member of the citizens' non-partisan committee, which prepared and procured the passage of the new election law of St. Louis, and was chairman of the Bar Association committee which drafted the St. Louis judiciary laws of 1895; and was also chairman of the civic federation committee which drafted the St. Louis school election law of 1897.

He is lecturer on constitutional law in the St. Louis Law School. He has at different times interested himself actively in politics as a citizen, but not as an office-seeker, and is known as a Democrat of the old school, strongly in favor of a sound financial system and a stable currency. He took an active part in the sound-money campaign in 1896, and was a delegate to the Monetary Conferences at Indianapolis in 1897 and 1898. He has made a number of addresses on professional and other topics, among which are: "What Shall the State Teach?" before the Commercial Club of St. Louis in 1887; "The Rights of Minority Stockholders in Missouri," before the Missouri Bar Association in 1888; "The Relation of the State to Private Business Associations," before the Commercial Club of St. Louis in 1890; "Liberty of Contract Under the Police Power," before the American Bar Association in 1891; "Address to the Graduating Class of Mary Institute," in 1894, and "Justice in Taxation as a Remedy for Social Discontent," before the Round Table Club of St. Louis in 1898. He is also author of "Missouri Taxation," a treatise on the history of law of taxation in Missouri (published by E. W. Stephens, Columbia, 1900), which is recognized authority on the subject. His religious affiliations are with the Episcopal Church. He is a member of the University, St. Louis, Noonday and