Bradford, justice; Edward Connelly of Henniker, special justice.

The district of Concord, comprising the city of Concord and the towns of Boscawen, Webster, Canterbury, Loudon, Bow, Dunbarton and Hopkinton; Allan Chester Clark of Concord, justice; Willis G. Buxton of Boscawen, special justice.

The district of Keene, comprising the city of Keene and the towns of Chesterfield, Dublin, Harrisville, Nelson, Stoddard, Richmond, Westmoreland, Gilsum, Marlborough, Surry, Roxbury, Sullivan, Marlow and Swanzey; Richard J. Wolfe of Keene, justice.

The district of Winchester, comprising the towns of Winchester and Hinsdale; Alexander F. Peirce of Winchester, justice.

The district of Troy, comprising the towns of Troy and Fitzwilliam; no justice or special justice has qualified.

The district of Jaffrey, comprising the towns of Jaffrey and Rindge; George H. Duncan of Jaffrey, justice; Charles L. Rich of Jaffrey, special justice.

The district of Walpole, comprising the towns of Walpole and Alstead; Charles J. O'Neill of Walpole, justice; John W. Cahalane of Walpole, special justice.

The district of Newport, comprising the towns of Newport, Croydon, Springfield, Sunapee, Lempster, Goshen, Washington and Grantham; Lewis S. Record of Newport, justice; Fred T. Pollard of Newport, special justice.

The district of Claremont, comprising the towns of Claremont, Cornish, Plainfield and Unity; Frederick W. Johnston of Claremont, special justice.

The district of Charlestown, comprising the towns of Charlestown, Acworth and Langdon; Frank W. Hamlin of Charlestown, justice; Edward R. Morrison of Acworth, special justice.

The district of Laconia, comprising the city of Laconia and the towns of

Meredith, New Hampton, Gilford and Center Harbor; Walter S. Peaslee of Laconia, justice; Bertram Blaisdell of Meredith, special justice.

The district of Tilton, comprising the towns of Tilton, Belmont and Sanbornton; Charles E. Smith of Tilton, justice; Ford T. Sanborn of Tilton, special justice.

The district of Alton, comprising the towns of Alton, Barnstead and Gilmanton; Charles H. Downing of Alton, justice.

The district of Bristol, comprising the towns of Bristol, Alexandria, Groton and Hebron; Charles W. Fling of Bristol, justice; Frank N. Gilman of Bristol, special justice.

The district of Haverhill, comprising the towns of Haverhill, Orford, Benton, Warren, Monroe and Piermont; Dexter D. Dow of Haverhill, justice; Russell T. Bartlett of Haverhill, special justice.

The district of Hanover, comprising the town of Hanover; Harry E. Burton of Hanover, justice; William R. Gray of Hanover, special justice.

The district of Lebanon, comprising the towns of Lebanon and Lyme; Clarence E. Hibbard of Lebanon, justice; Roland B. Jacobs of Lebanon, special justice.

The district of Plymouth, comprising the towns of Plymouth, Ashland, Bridgewater, Holderness, Campton, Rumney and Wentworth; George H. Bowles of Plymouth, justice; George C. Craig of Rumney, special justice.

The district of Littleton, comprising the towns of Littleton, Bethlehem and Franconia; Harry L. Heald of Littleton, justice.

The district of Lisbon, comprising the towns of Lisbon, Lyman, Bath, Landaff and Easton; Ben S. Webb of Lisbon, justice.

The district of Canaan, comprising the towns of Canaan, Orange, Grafton, Enfield and Dorchester; Frank D. Currier of Canaan, justice; Daniel W. Campbell of Enfield, special justice.

The district of Woodstock, compris

justice; Manassah Perkins of Jefferson, special justice.

The district of Colebrook, comprising the towns of Colebrook, Stewartstown and Columbia and the rest of Coos County not otherwise included; James Carr of Colebrook, justice.

HON. GEORGE H. BINGHAM George Hutchins Bingham, occupant of the highest judicial position now held by any native of New Hampshire, inherits the title of judge from both his paternal and maternal ancestors. His grandfather, Warner Bingham, was a county judge in Vermont; his grandfather, Andrew Salter Woods, was chief justice of the supreme court of New Hampshire; his father, George A. Bingham, was a judge of the supreme court of New Hampshire; and his uncle, Edward F. Bingham, was chief justice of the supreme court of the District of Columbia.

The present Judge Bingham was born in Littleton, N. H., August 19, 1864, attended the public schools there and prepared for Dartmouth College at Holderness School for Boys and St. Johnsbury (Vt.) Academy. Graduating from Dartmouth in 1887 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, in the following year he entered the law school of Harvard University and received its degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1891.

Practising his profession at Littleton with his father until the latter's death in 1895, Judge Bingham in 1898 removed to Manchester and formed a partnership with Hon. David A. Taggart. In 1901 he opened an office by himself and in 1902 was appointed by Governor Chester B. Jordan an associate justice of the supreme court of New Hampshire.

In this position, as was to be expected from his ancestry, his training and his equipment, his work was of the highest order; and his eminent fitness for the high office of judge of the United States circuit court was recog

nized by President Woodrow Wilson when an appointment from New England was to be made to that court.

Judge Bingham has been a director of the Merchants' National Bank in Manchester. He is a vestryman of Grace Episcopal church, Manchester. A Democrat in politics, by family tradition and personal belief, he has declined the active party leadership which has been offered him in such forms as the state convention nomination for governor.

Judge Bingham married, October 21, 1891, Cordelia Pearmain Hinckley and they have three sons and three daughters.

HON. ROBERT G. PIKE

When Governor Samuel D. Felker, Democrat, nominated Judge Robert G. Pike, Republican, to be chief justice of the superior court of New Hampshire, the act was applauded universally, partly because it was a notable instance of desirable non-partisanship in an important appointment, but chiefly because it assured a worthy continuance of the state's high standard in its most important judicial places. For the people in general, as well as the lawyers, of the whole state, knew almost as well as did Governor Felker, fellow member of the same county bar for many years, the splendid qualifications of Judge Pike for the chief justiceship.

Robert Gordon Pike was born in Rollinsford, Strafford County, N. H., July 28, 1851, the son of Amos W. and Elizabeth M. (Chadbourne) Pike. Both his father's and his mother's ancestors came to this country from England between 1630 and 1640 and his great-great-grandfather, the Reverend James Pike, was the first minister (1726-1790) in that part of Dover, afterwards included in Somersworth, which since 1849 has been the town of Rollinsford.

Judge Pike attended the town schools in boyhood and at the Berwick (Maine) Academy prepared

for Dartmouth College, from whose Chandler Scientific Department he graduated in the class of 1872. In 1903 he succeeded the late Judge John Hopkins of Massachusetts as a Chandler Visitor to the College and in 1908 was given the honorary degree of Master of Arts by his alma mater.

Upon leaving college he engaged in the profession of civil engineering, for which he had fitted himself, and was one of the party which laid out the Portsmouth and Dover Railroad in 1873, spending the next year with Shedd & Sawyer, civil engineers, of Boston.

Three years of teaching at South Berwick, Me., followed, and in 1878 he found his life work and began the study of law with the late Chief Justice Charles Doe, at the same time serving as superintendent of schools at Rollinsford. He was admitted to the state bar in 1881 and to the bar of the circuit court of the United States in 1894. Choosing Dover as the place in which to begin the practice of his profession in 1881, he has remained. ever since its loyal, useful, respected and honored citizen.

He was city solicitor from 1887 to 1889 and judge of the county probate court from 1893 to 1896. Other positions, which he held for longer or shorter terms, were those of member of the city of Dover water board, trustee of the Strafford Savings Bank, trustee of Berwick Academy, trustee and treasurer of Franklin Academy and member of the school board of the city of Dover.

Judge Pike was appointed associate justice of the supreme court of the state April 14, 1896, and upon the reorganization of the judicial system in 1901 became an associate justice of the superior court, of which his most recent appointment makes him chief justice.

HON. WILLIAM A. PLUMMER Judge William Alberto Plummer, whose promotion from the superior to

the supreme bench was approved unanimously by the people as well as by the bar of the state, was born in Gilmanton, N. H., December 2, 1865, the son of the late Charles E. and Mary H. (Moody) Plummer. His ancestors on both his father's and his mother's side came from England to Essex County, Mass., early in the seventeenth century, and from that day to this have been substantial citizens and landholders of the Bay State and the Granite State.

Judge Plummer's education was gained in the public schools; at Gilmanton Academy; at Dartmouth College where, by reason of ill health he was unable to complete the course; and at the law school of Boston University, from which he received the degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1889. He had studied law, also, with J. C. Story at Plymouth, George W. Murray at Canaan and C. T. and T. H. Russell of Boston; and was admitted to the New Hampshire bar July 26, 1889.

On September 2, 1889, Judge Plummer formed a partnership for the practice of law at Laconia with Colonel Stephen S. Jewett which continued for eighteen years and made the firm of Jewett & Plummer known throughout the state and beyond its borders as one of the most deservedly successful in New Hampshire.

As an advocate and as a counsellor Judge Plummer displayed throughout the years of his practice qualities which made him eminently fit for a judicial position and when on October 3, 1907, he was appointed by Governor Charles M. Floyd to the superior bench the choice met with universal commendation.

Of his record as justice of that court it is sufficient to say that it has fulfilled every hope of his warmest friends and stands as the best possible reason for the promotion to the supreme court, which he recently received from Governor Felker with the approbation of the executive council as well as of the press and the public.