Associate justice of the supreme court of the United States, born in South Lee, MA, on the 2nd of March 1836; admitted to the Michigan bar in 1860; appointed assistant United States attorney by President Lincoln; and appointed judge of the state circuit court of Wayne County. He returned to active practice until 1875, when President Grant appointed him district judge for the eastern district of Michigan. On December 23, 1890, he was appointed associate Justice of the supreme court to succeed Justice Samuel F. Miller.
