This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 edition. Excerpt: ...Radcliffe, his pastor, "mourns one of its greatest citizens, the judiciary one of its strongest pillars, the Church of Christ, and the Presbyterian Church especially, one of its most honored names, this congregation a tower of strength, and all of us one of our best and most devoted friends." Justice Harlan was born in Boyle County, Kentucky, June 1, 1833.-He was therefore in his seventy-eighth year. He had served on the bench of the U. S. Supreme Court thirty-three years, ten months and twenty-five days. Had he survived the present court year, he would have won the distinction of breaking the record for length of service in that high oflice. As it is Mr. Justice Field and Justice Harlan's namesake and distinguished predecessor, Chief Justice John Marshall, both served terms a few months longer than his own. One of his strong desires is said to have been to complete the longest term.of service in the history of the Supreme bench. Justice Harlan graduated from Center College, Kentucky, in the class of 1850, and four years later completed a course of law at Transylvania Unversity. His career as 9. member of the bar was first at Frankfort and later in Louisville, of a nature to give him a state-wide reputation, and soon led him into politics. He served as Secretary of State and as Attorney-General and was twice sent to Congress. In the Lincoln campaign his name was found as an elector on the Bell-Everett ticket---the "peace" ticket of those troubled days, but alas! there could be no peace. With the opening of the Civil War, he broke away from the strong secession element in Kentucky, and espoused the Union cause, and raised the Tenth Kentucky Regiment, _which he commanded under Thomas until 1863, when the death of his...