AMERICAN THUMB-PRINTS

COPYRIGHT, 1905

BY J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY

Published April, 1905

Electrotyped and Printed by

J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, U. S. A.

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IN MOST LOVING MEMORY OF

MY FATHER

NELSON TIMOTHY STEPHENS

WHOSE RARE KNOWLEDGE OF MEN AND OF LAW
WHOSE SENSITIVENESS TO JUSTICE

HUMAN KINDLINESS

AND FINE DISDAIN FOR SELF-ADVERTISEMENT
ARE STILL CHERISHED BY THE NOBLE FOLK
AMONG WHOM HE SPENT

THE LAST YEARS OF HIS LIFE

AT WHOSE INSTANCE IN GREAT MEASURE
AND UPON WHOSE ADVICE

THE LAW SCHOOL OF THE UNIVERSITY
SKETCHED IN THIS BOOK
WAS IN 1878

FOUNDED

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