With these qualifications, and possessed of a mind marked by clearness of perception and analytical acumen and with an ardent love for his chosen profession, his success at the bar was a matter of course. It can be said confidently that no client ever found in Edwin M. Pilcher other than a careful, conscientious and intelligent adviser. No fellow member of the bar ever found him as an associate in professional labor who did not take pleasure in doing more than his share of the work; no litigant ever found in him other than a champion who expended all the zeal of a persistent and tireless energy in his cause.

His spotless personal character, his fine courage, his conscientious discharge of every duty in life, and his high integrity, brought to him the respect and love of the fellow-members of his bar, and he was elected President of the Richmond Bar Association by them as a mark of the esteem in which he was generally held.

His marked fidelity to duty and capacity for protracted labor, he evinced as Commissioner in Chancery, his reports showing always conscientious and careful application, a thorough and patient investigation of the cause before him.

In his private life he was generally beloved. By his frank, open, and ingenious nature, entirely free from ostentation or affectation, and a manner uniformly courteous and considerate, he attracted to him all with whom he was thrown. By his ready sympathy and true friendliness, he won a host of friends and bound them to him with bands of steel.

In the prime of his life, just verging on to the threshhold of middle life, rising rapidly and surely to that goal of success in his profession to which he aspired, he was taken away. An able lawyer, a man of the loftiest ideals, to which his whole life showed his fidelity, his memory now is highly and justly honored by all.

Richmond, Virginia,

September 1, 1913.

R. GRAYSON DASHIELL.

CAPTAIN EDWARD BEVERLEY SLADEK

dward Beverley Slater, a member of the Vion. Association, departed this lite in Washington Pison to t ada. May 6th, 1913. Blood poisoning, which I to

in from an infected tooth, caused his deach, altiorga es ly known to nicdical science, assisted by most co

milc tionate care, was exhausted.

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verley Slauer, as he was known among his associates, when Dor December 13th, 1862, in James City County, Vi

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Captain Slater was the only son of Beverley Slater are los a Sallie Anne Vaiden Slater. His father was born in England a i took up his residence in Virginia when quite young. The fathe, of Beverley Slater, Sr., was consul from England at Athens, and while there, married an Athenian lady. The impress of his grandmother, was prominent in Captain Slater's personal ap pearance and in his characteristics, most notable of which was the rare combination of dignity and composure, with an impulsive nature and quickness of intellect.

Preparatory to taking up his legal studies at the University of Virginia, where he graduated with the degree of B. L., in the day of that greatest of all law teachers, since the time of Blackstore, John B. Minor, he received a bread, thorough, general education in surroundings of refinement and culture, essential to a career of distinction at the bar. Primitive conditions of society and government have made possible the achievements of men in the history of our country, whose opportunities were limited by their surroundings; but in this day of progress and privileges, when the plowman reads his daily paper and the humblest citizen has thrown open to him the door, tre li