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Show JUSTICE STEPHEN J. FIELD DEAD Was n Member of the United States Supreme Hencli For Thirty-four YeHrg. Washing-ton, April 11. Justice Stephen J. Field of the United States supreme court, retired, died at his home on capitol hill in this city at 6:30 o'clock Sundaj' evening of kidney com" plications. He had been unconscious since Saturday morning-, and death came painlessly. Stephen Johnson Field was horn at Haddatn, Conn.. November 4, 1S1B. He was the son of David Dudley Field and one of four brothers who became so famous, David Dudley, Cyrus W. and Henry M. Field being- the other member! mem-ber! of the great quartette that made their, names known throug-hout the world. In 1803, President Lincoln appointed him associate justice of the supreme court of the United States and he held that position until his retirement on December 1, 1897. During this long service on the bench he also was before the public eye in other ways than as judge of the supreme court of the United States. He was a membea- of the Hayes-Tilden electoral commission in 1877 and voted with the Democrats. In 1880 he received re-ceived sixty-Sve votes for the presidency presi-dency nomination at the Cincinnati Democratic convention, on the first ballot. In 1873 he was appointed by the governor of the state of California one of the commission to examine the code of laws of that state. In 1866 Williams college conferred upon him the degree of LL.D., and in 1869 the regents of the University of California made him a professor of laws in that Institution. |