this Association. I therefore move that he be elected a mem ber of this Association. Motion seconded and carried. THE PRESIDENT: It is very much to be regretted that so many have gone away before today's program, which is in some respects the most interesting of the Association. The Executive Committee proposed placing the memorials on the last day's session, hoping that the brethren would feel sufficiently interested in the subjects of those memorials to remain and hear them. It seems almost a reflection if not an insult to ask gentlemen to prepare memorials of our departed brethren to be read here and then have only a handful of the Association present to listen to them. MR. PAXTON: Mr. Chairman, before you proceed to that, in view of the fact that there are only a very few here today, and I am not one of those who had been chosen to deliver an address or memorial, but it has been suggested that a motion be made that the reading of these addresses be dispensed with and that they be printed in full in the proceedings of this convention, and I therefore make a motion to that effect. Motion seconded by Judge Stewart. JUDGE STEWART: That motion is made if there is no objection upon the part of the gentlemen who prepared the memorials. JUDGE OWEN: I am implicated in that proposition and I most heartily endorse it. THE PRESIDENT: There is one memorial that is not upon the program; that is the memorial upon Mr. Stephen R. Harris, prepared by Mr. Smith Bennett. Motion carried. (For memorial on Hon. George K. Nash, by Hon. Selwyn N. Owen, see Appendix.) (For memorial on Hon. Richard A. Harrison, by Hon. Henry J. Booth, see Appendix.) For memorial on Judge J. H. Collins, by Mr. W. O. Henderson, see Appendix.) (For memorial on Hon. Stephen R. Harris, by Mr. Smith W. Bennett, see Appendix.) (For memorial on Judge Eli S. Hammond, by Mr. J. Kent Hamilton, see Appendix.) THE PRESIDENT: There should have been a call of the various districts for deceased members yesterday, but when the addresses were concluded everybody was hungry and there appeared to be no chance for that. The Secretary will call the districts for the reports of deceased members. The Secretary then called the First District. JUDGE HERRON: I understand there has only been one death, that of Carl L. Nippert, and a statement in regard to him has been furnished. Second District: MR. C. R. GILMORE: The Chairman is not here and I wish to report the name of J. C. Patterson, one of the oldest members of the Second District. He died within the past year. Third District: No report. Fifth District: MR. E. B. MCCARTER: I give the name of John G. McGuffey, one of the oldest members of the Columbus bar. He died last month. MR. J. F. LANING: Mr. Chairman, I think from the Fourth Judicial District Judge Lynn W. Hull's name has not been mentioned. I presume there is some one from Sandusky to attend to it. Sixth District: No report. Seventh and Eighth Districts: No report. Ninth District: JUDGE HOLE: I arise to announce to the convention the death of Theodore Hall, of Ashtabula; and those of us who have been attending this Association for these many years will remember he was always here; his genial smile was always with us and his kindly heart was always ready to be opened whenever there was any matter demanding it. I am not here to speak any memorial for him at all this morning, but to move you that Judge Burrows, one of his most intimate friends, be requested to file with this Association a proper memorial upon Judge Hall. Motion seconded and carried. (For memorial on Judge Theodore Hall, by Hon. J. B. Burrows, see Appendix.) MR. LANING: I want to make a similar motion in the case of Judge Hull. I think we had better ask Judge King to prepare a memorial and have it printed into the record. (For memorial on Judge Linn W. Hull, by Hon. E. B. King, see Appendix.) Tenth District: MR. SMITH BENNETT: Do I understand that the motion that was made formerly, that the report of the Committee on Legal Biography is also not to be read; or did that just include the memorials? now. THE PRESIDENT: Yes; I was going to call for the report MR. BENNETT: The question was whether the motion carried with it the report on Legal Biography. THE PRESIDENT: I was going to call for that report now. MR. BENNETT: I was going to offer it in connection with the report from the Tenth District. Gentlemen of the Association: I wish to say in connection with the report from the Tenth District, that Mr. Harris was a resident of that district and at the time of his death he was engaged in drafting a report for this Association, in the month of January of this year. He left these papers among the files in which he kept the biographies of the members of the Association; and at the request of your President I took this incomplete report and from it drafted this report. There have been several suggestions of deaths received that were not reported, either to Mr. Harris or to me, so that those ought to be made a part of this report. Mr. Bennett then read report, as follows: REPORT OF SMITH W. BENNETT Chairman pro-tem of the Committee on Legal Biography COLUMBUS, OHIO, July 7, 1905. To the Ohio State Bar Association, Convened in Its Twenty-sixth Annual Session: I beg to submit herewith the report of the Committee on Legal Biography pursuant to the requirements of the Constitution of the Association which seeks to have a short biographical sketch of each member whose death has been reported since our last session. The material therefor, I have obtained from the files of the Association as compiled by Hon. Stephen R. Harris, who has so diligently served you in the capacity of chairman of this committee for more than twenty years. As special memorials are prepared to be delivered at this session on Governor George K. Nash, Judge R. A. Harrison, Judge J. H. Collins, Judge Eli S. Hammond and Hon. Stephen R. Harris, I will not in this report make any further reference to the life and work of each, but as the several memorials will be printed in the proceedings of this session no further report will be made by this committee. I find among the papers of Mr. Harris sent to me for the purpose of preparing this report, a partial report which had been drafted by him when overtaken by death on the 15th day of January, 1905. I submit the same herewith in his language: "The Constitution of our Association requires this committee to provide for the preservation among the archives, suitable memorials of the lives and character of deceased members, and procure and report to the next annual meeting a short biographical sketch of each deceased member who shall have been reported at any annual meeting. "To enable us to perform that duty the committee originally provided blanks for autobiographies and furnished them to members, who, with a few exceptions, filled in the blanks and returned them to the chairman of the committee who bound them in book form. One volume has been filled with the names of 485 members and the second volume contains 59 names. Thus we have a total of 585 autobiographies. "Some members may have failed to receive blanks. If so, there is a supply of them on the Secretary's table. "When the death of a member is reported to the chairman of the committee, he can make and report to the Association, by the aid of these autobiographies, a short sketch of every deceased member, which in turn is published in the annual reports and placed within the reach of the surviving members, and serves to perpetuate the memory of the departed members to their posterity. "The deaths of the following members have been reported since the last annual meeting of the Association: ALFRED R. MCINTIRE, of Mt. Vernon, Ohio, who died September 21, 1903. (His death was reported at the session of this Association in 1904, but as no memorial had been prepared regarding him, Mr. Harris has provided the following data): "The following facts regarding his life are found on page 49 of the first volume of Biographies referred to. "He was born in Paint Township, Holmes County, Ohio, July 14, 1840, and at the time of his death resided at Mt. Vernon, Ohio. He was admitted to the bar in the month of June, 1869, in Mt. Vernon, Ohio. He was married September 28, 1869, at Fredericktown, Ohio, to Helen Richards. They had three children, two boys, Rolin R. and Alfred H., and one girl, Ada, born respectively in 1871, 1876 and 1879. The only public office held by him was that of member of the Board of Education of Mt. Vernon for nine years. He prepared himself for college at the public schools at Fredericktown, Ohio, by teaching, and afterwards in 1865 graduated at the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, Ohio, in the full classical course and taught the High School at Fredericktown afterwards before entering the study of law. He studied law under the late Judge R. C. Hurd. He served seven months as a private soldier in the 96th Regiment, O. V. I., and was discharged on account of sickness in March, 1863. He served during the summer of 1864 as First Lieutenant, Company 'H', 142d Regiment, O. V. I." Speaking of the death of JUDGE JAMES H. COLLINS, concerning whom a memorial will be presented by Hon. W. O. Henderson, of Columbus, Ohio, Mr. Harris has written upon his memorandum the following: "He was a gifted lawyer, and it is to be hoped that a suitable eulogy in the future will be delivered upon his life and character by some member who best knew him." |