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Distinguished and highly honored as he was in the years of his greatest activity I think that Mr. Stevenson was never more admirable, never more lovable, than in the evening of his life, in the years of his semi-retirement but not of suspended usefulness. Years, it is true, which brought to him the inevitable diminution of physical vigor and much, very much, of sad bereavement and most poignant grief, but years which, withal, seemed to bring out in even bolder relief his greatness of soul, his illimitable kindness of heart and the undimmed luster of his splendid intellect. Often, no doubt, the obsequies of the distinguished dead have been attended with pomp and circumstance that were absent from his, but few, indeed, have been so sincerely loved in life and mourned in death as was he, by the multitudes who passed in reverent silence beside his bier. In his life his brethren of this bar one and all admired and loved him. In his death we shall not cease to honor and revere his memory. REMARKS OF JOHN T. LILLARD BEFORE THE McLEAN COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT, CONVENED IN MEMORY OF ADLAI E. STEV- ENSON I cannot permit this occasion to pass without making my con- tribution. Mr. Stevenson was for forty years my beloved friend. ADLAI EWING STEVENSON 65 In August, 1873, I was, as a youth, the favored bearer of a letter of introduction to Adlai E. Stevenson. The man I thus met was then thirty-eight years of age, blond, clear-eyed, tall, erect, well groomed. How vivid to me now is the picture.

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