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Bloomington and formed a law partnership with the Hon. James S. Ewing, his cousin. He then began a legal and political career unequalled by that of any other citizen of our county. Deeply versed in the best English literature, and a profound student of the law, he soon became recognized as one of the ablest lawyers of the state. As a lawyer he was profound rather than technical. He cared nothing for mere forms, but everything for substance. As an advocate he had but few equals and no su- periors at the bar and there are adversaries now living who can remember the dread and anxiety experienced by them as he arose to deliver his closing address to the jury in some hotly con- tested case. The firm of Stevenson & Ewing practiced law as- siduously for more than twenty years. The records of this court and the high courts of review are the silent but eloquent wit- nesses to the success of this firm. Our friend was not only a successful lawyer, but he under- stood and appreciated the importance and dignity of the profes- sion of which he was so great an ornament, and he looked to the law as the means by which our free institutions are to be per- petuated and the rights and liberties of the individual citizen protected. In a public utterance he said: "It is all important, never mere so than now, that the people should magnify the law. Out- rages have been perpetrated in the name of justice appalling to all thoughtful men. It need hardly be said that all this is in total disregard of individual rights and utterly subversive of lawful authority. By the solemn adjudication of courts and