turned to Camp Funston the last of August to help train the first increments of the National Army. At Camp Funston I saw him in September. Already he had deepened the admiration, respect and love his fellow officers had long felt for him; already he had won the respect, admiration and love of the men he commanded. At Camp Funston he lived and worked throughout the autumn and winter and there he died. He died for you and me and all of us, for everything we have and are, for everything we hold most dear, as truly as if he had met a German bullet over there behind the roaring barrage. A noble gentleman unafraid.

By the death of Lieutenant McPhee, the Denver Bar has lost a member whose amiability and simplicity, modesty, unselfishness and loyalty endeared him to all who knew him; our profession has lost a promising leader whose native ability and education, whose high character and earnest adherence to the highest ideals of our profession marked him for pre-eminence among the lawyers of Colorado; and Denver has lost a man whose nobility of character, and purity of patriotism are evidenced, and the splendor of whose example is enhanced by the fact that, though well above the present age of selective service, at the first call of his country he voluntarily left his chosen profession of the law, home, family and the ways of peace, to all of which he was devoted, to fight under the flag he loved, and, if need be, to die for justice and liberty. To the family of Lieutenant McPhee we can only offer our deepest sympathy, and, in the words of Lincoln, "pray our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of their bereavement and leave them only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be theirs to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom."

LAWRENCE LEWIS.

Robert Cowles

Robert Cowles was born at St. Joseph, Missouri. April 3, 1863; died at Pueblo, Colorado, January 3, 1918.

Within six months after his birth he was brought by his mother to Golden, Colorado, traveling overland by prairie schooner and ox team. His boyhood days were spent in the towns of Golden, Old Las Animas and Trinidad, in which towns his parents were engaged in the hotel business. He attended the public schools of these towns until the age of fourteen years, when he went to the city of New York. In that city he became a messenger boy, and, in his later years, he delighted in relating his experiences as such and took considerable pride in detailing the readir he familiarized himself with the map of the greaseny of sixteen years he became law clerk in the thre it one of the prominent firms of New York City. He ett med. Prebro, Cole rado in 1881, and for a time served as deputy of 9. on the County Court of Pueblo County under Judge Berry, the year 1883 he was employed as clerk in the law office of Ricar↑ „aud Pitkin, the firm being composed of Judge G. Q. Rebon

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the able lawyer that he was. During his * active in all the athletic pursuits of his ta years as Captain of the G. Q. Richmond Hook pany of the Volunteer Fire Department of net also in the State Militia.

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