and able to appreciate worth wherever it might manifest it- self, though clad in homespun and denied the cultural disci- plines that are often the mark of gentle breeding. She was abundantly prepared for any position to which she might be called in the large range of our American life. She had fol- lowed the leadings of her affections and had linked her des- tinies with those of this young man who was making a notable place for himself in the practice of his profession. Like him she was destined to distinguished honors. Like him, she bore those honors with that modesty and charm that have given her a permanent and revered position in the traditions of the Daughters of the American Revolution. It was shortly after the resumption of his interrupted Bloomington life that I came to know him and that a friend- ship began that continued to the end. While not a lawyer I belonged to a family of lawyers and that helped me to indulge my fondness for their companionship. I was a frequenter of the courts and a seemingly welcome guest at their offices. It was a most gratifying fact that I was also remembered upon those occasions when they celebrated their social inclinations by ban- quets and similar formalities. I was thus drawn into relations that were personally delightful and that gave me a vantage ground to estimate accurately the character of whom I am try- ing to write. I may properly add that I was never a member of the political party to which Mr. Stevenson belonged, al- though I cannot recall any incident in which that was a matter of the slightest significance so far as our personal relations