connected with any suit in the history of this country
                DANIEL MAYES.
  Judge Mayes appears to have been a resident of
Christian County, and represented that county in the
legislature in 1825. In 1837 he was appointed judge of
the circuit court, but resigned a short time after, and re-
moved to Jackson, Miss., where he died in 1844. He
was for many years professor of law in Transylvania
University. He suffered from the infirmity of stam-
mering in ordinary conversation, but when aroused
could speak most fluently and efficiently.  He was one
of the foremost of the celebrated lecturers at Transyl-
vania, which for many years enjoyed the reputation of
being the foremost law school of the West. He married
the widow of Charles Humphreys, well known to the
citizens of this county. For clear, clean-cut, analytical
argument, Judge Mayes was the equal of any lawyer of
his day.
               AARON K. WOOLLEY.
  Aaron Kitchell Woolley was born in Springfield, N.
J., January, 1800, and was the son of a revolutionary
patriot. He received his early training at West Point,
graduating at the head of his class. Such was the dis-
tinction with which he was graduated the faculty ten-
dered, and he accepted, the position of assistant pro-
fessor of mathematics. He held this position for two
years, when he resigned. He naturally inclined to-
ward the law, and immediately upon leaving West
Point, began the study of law at Pittsburg with
the Hon. Richard Biddle, brother to the celebrat-
ed Nicholas Biddle, president of the old United States
Bank of Andrew Jackson fame. Judge Biddle was one
of the ablest and, at that time, most celebrated jurists in
America. As had done many another northern youth,
young Woolley sought his fortune in the south, and at
the age of 23 settled at Port Gibson, in Mississippi. At
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