FATHER OF THE TRUSTS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 23, 28 January 1911, Page 19

FATHER OF THE TRUSTS.

> A GREAT "CORPORATION" LAWYER. There died at Orange, New Jersey, in December, Judge James Dill, who has been known as the " Father of the Trusts." Judge Dill, who was only fifty-six years of age, had been a coi'po nation lawyef in New Jersey, the great trust Sfcate, for many years, and had written the incorpoi'ation papers of all the world's biggest combinations. Four yearn ago, haying made a fortune out of his practice, he became v candidate foi' the bench, and was elected judge of the Court of Errors and Appeals. In order to accept this post, the salary of which i» £2000, Judge Dill relinquished a practice worth over £60,000 a year. In twenty years that he acted as a corporation lawyer, he was instrumental in the organisation of trusts whose capi^ talisation reached tho enormous total of over £150,000,000. His biggest fee was one of £200,000 for settling the fight between Carnegie, Frick, atid other companies some time before the organisation of the great Steel Trust. After leaving Yale University, where he graduated m 187b, he became a reporter for a New York paper, and was sent to Western Pennsylvania during the Cl Molly Maguire " riots. His excellent work in these stirring times prompted his paper to give him & bonus of £70, and this he used as the founda-tion.-fukdto stftrfr him m his hyw; fetudk*..