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Alexander P. Misheff, a dean of the Trust Administration Bar of Chicago, passed away suddenly Aug. 5 at age 78.

His life was an example of American bootstrap mobility, born to immigrant parents from eastern Europe during the depression, growing up in the small town of Red Wing, Minn., and graduating from Harvard College and Harvard Law School. After serving in the Army, he began his legal career in Chicago in the trust department of Continental Bank, eventually advancing to head the department.

When Continental sold its trust business, he established a private law practice, which he continued until shortly before his death. A significant contributor to his profession, he spent many years on bar association committees, chairing the Chicago Bar Association Trust Committee, writing articles for professional publications and representing the American Bankers Association in drafting a Uniform State Law proposal on Fiduciary Principles of Trusts.

Reflecting his efforts to promote prudence and stem the erosion of traditional trust principles, he continually opposed efforts by state legislatures in recent years to encourage trust departments "to mend their stodgy ways and invest more in the stock market." He also criticized proposals to change the traditional rules of trust accounting.

Ben W. Heineman Sr., of Chicago, died on August 5 at age 98. He was revered as a giant of his generationa brilliant lawyer, a far-sighted businessman, an adviser to presidents, governors and mayors, a prominent Chicago leader, a deeply committed supporter of opera and symphony, an influential trustee of the University of Chicago, and a world-class collector of contemporary glass.

These and many other accomplishments reflected a person of extraordinary character, integrity and, independence, whose life truly deserved the phrases "business statesman" and "Renaissance man." He was a warm, witty, wise and caring counselor to many and, ultimately, an exemplary citizen of his city, his state, and his country.

Ben was born in Wausau, Wisconsin, on February 10, 1914, six months before the start of World War I, the son of Walter Benjamin and Elsie Brunswick Heineman. After his family lost all its money in 1929, he attended the University of Michigan from 1930 to 1933 and then Northwestern Law School, graduating in 1936 at the top of his class and as the editor of the law review. His legal career spanned the next 20 years. He was a leading corporate lawyer in Chicago.

Edward T. Graham studied up on condemnation law after his father-in-law's family farm near Batavia was swallowed up by the federal government in the late 1960s as part of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory project.

Mr. Graham, at the time an attorney for Standard Oil of Indiana, became the legal adviser for many farmers whose land was in the path of the gigantic research lab. The experience of helping so many landowners gave Mr. Graham the confidence to branch out and open his own law firm in Wheaton, where he spent the next 40-plus years practicing primarily real estate law.

Read the full obituary in the Chicago Tribune

Jeremiah D. McAuliffe, name partner in the Chicago firm of Pattishall, McAuliffe, Newbury, Hilliard & Geraldson LLP, passed away on Aug. 8.

Born on October 1, 1921 in Chicago, Mr. McAuliffe graduated from Northwestern University 1943 and Northwestern University School of Law 1948. He was commissioned Ensign in the United States Navy in August 1943 and served on board USS Bates (DE68) in the North Atlantic. He served as Executive Officer on board USS PC 483 and Commanding Officer on board USS PCE 870 in the Pacific Theatre. He continued to serve in the United States Naval Reserve and retired as Commander.