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the Association, this case was ordered dismissed. George F. Dunklee, for the Association.

Respectfully submitted,

EDWARD S. WORRELL JR.,

Chairman.

JOHN R. SMITH,

HARRY E. KELLY,

JOSEPH S. JAFFA,

RALPH E. STEPHENS,

CHARLES R. BROCK,
WILLIAM A. MOORE,
RALPH HARTZELL,
D. EDGAR WILSON,
Committee on Grievances.

REPORT

OF THE

COMMITTEE ON LEGAL BIOGRAPHY

To the Colorado Bar Association:

Your Committee on Legal Biography regrets to report the death of Henry M. Teller, William H. Bryant, and Charles W. Franklin.

At the last meeting of the Association, the death of Chauncey W. Blackmer was reported, but as data for a sketch of his life was not then available, Mr. Blackmer's biography is now submitted, together with memorials of the lives of Henry M. Teller and Charles W. Franklin.

Your committee is disappointed in being unable to read at this time Mr. Bryant's biography, but will have it in the Secretary's hands within a day or two, so that it may be printed with the proceedings of this meeting. Respectfully submitted,

ROBERT S. GAST,

Chairman.

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Henry Moore Teller

The sturdy Holland ancestors of Henry Moore Teller in the State of New York about two centuries before his b He came of that sternly moral, patriotic and intelligent which reached full fruition in his great character.

His father, John Teller, settled on a farm in Allegheny County, New York, where Henry Moore Teller was born on May 23, 1830. In 1852 the family moved to Erie County, Pennsyl vania, and again in 1862 they moved to Morrison, Illinois, where his father died in 1879.

His early years were passed on his father's farms, where he followed the usual pursuits of a country poy.

His instinctive taste for learning lead to the resolve to acquire a proper education by his own efforts, for as the family consisted of six children, the farm could not provide the desired education for all. By teaching school, he took a course at Rushford Academy, and then took up the study of law in the office of Judge Martin Grover, at Binghampton, New York, where he was admitted to the Bar in January, 1858. He then returned to Morrison, Illinois, and began to practice law.

The lure of the West and a belief in the opportunities it presented, brought him to Central City, Colorad, in 1861. About three years later his brother, Willard Tr, rengto Central City, and the law firm of H. M. and W, Foley men top ed een tinued until the public duties of Senator Telor required h's whole attention.

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