The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1865-06-02
sJashrilIe &Gluior.
WK. CAKEROS q CO.. Publishers.
FRIDAY, JUNE ,, 1865.
Tribute 10 1he Memory

lFlDulo 10 tHc MtihOf9
Of tie late Hon. John Cat0a, associate
Justice Of the Sgprsas Court Of The
United States.
At meeting held at the Court House
in the city Of Nashville, on Thursday
morning, June Present, the Judge
of the Circuit Court, the officers of the
Federal and State Courts, and the
members of the Nashville bar
On motion, Francis B. Fogg, Esq, was
called to the Chair, and A V. s. Linds-
ley requested to act as Secretary.
After some remarks from the Chair
explaining the object of the meeting
and giving a sketch of some of the
prominent points in the life of the late
Judge Catron,
On motion, the Chair appointed Hor-
ace II. Harrison, Nathaniel Baxter and
Jordan Stokes committee to prepare
resolutions suitable to the occasion.
The Committee, after retiring a short
time, through their chairman, Mr..
Harrison, reported the following pre-
smble and resolutions, which were
unanimously adopted:
We are are called together upon one
| of those solemn occasions which has
called US together so often of late. 1t
has been only short time since the
death of the honored Chief Justice Of
the Supreme Court of the United States
and now another Justice of that high
tribunal is gone John Catron, with
whose life and public services we are
all familiar, departed this life on the
Both ult, at 80 minutes past clock,
P NJ, at his residence in this city, sur
rounded by his family and friends, and
| in complete possession of his faculties.
He was bornin Wytheville, Va, III the
year 1888. He removed to Tennessee,
and commenced to read law in April,
1912, with George w Gibbs, Esq. AT
ter serving his country in the field in a
campaign under Gen. jackson, he re-
turned home, and commenced the prac,
tice Of law late in the year 1915, and
was shortlylhereafter elected attorney
Of the Government for his circuit. He
continued to hold this Office, in which
he labored most arduously, assidiously
and successfully, until the year 1918
when he removed to this city, where
he continued TO reside till the day Of
his death.
With remarkable application and in
dustry, he practiced law at Nashville
when the Nashville bar was inferior tC
none in the country, until December
1924, when he was elected one Of the
judges of the Supreme Court of thii
State. lie acted as Chief Justice o
that Court from 1890 to 1886. We are al
familiar with he part which he tooB
in building up our jurisprudence il
Tennessee during the period from lS2-
to 1886.
On the 4th Of March, 1887, Judge
CatrOn was nominated to the United
States Senate, by Andrew Jackson, al
a Judge of the Supreme Court of the
United States, which distinguished DO
sition he has ever since held. be wal
an industrious student, and is repre-
sented to have possessed in his yOunt
days q determination TO succeed in hi
profession, which, with his application
and untiring industry, furnishes key
to his remarkable success as a lawye
and Judge
He was an impartial and conscien
tious judge, courteous to the member
of the bar, but rigidly sustaining at al
times the dignity of the bench. He in
yestigated questions closely, and ha
left an imperishable work in the iu
dicial decisions of the country.
He was a sincere friend, and an ex
ceedingly kind husband. His domes
tics were much attached to him.
He was Just and liberal in his views
honest in all his purposes and actions
In testimony of our high apprecia
tan of the public services Of the de
| ceased, and his many domestic and sc
cial virtues, We present the folowin
resolutions:
Resolved, That in the death of Judg
Catron, the national judiciary has los
a most valuable member, and its legs
| profession in the United States one c
its brightest lights That we deepl
sympathize with Mrs. Catron, and tn
immediate relatives of the late Judg
I Catron, in the loss they have sustaine
in his death. That these resolutions b
presented to the Circuit Court now
R session, to be spread upon the minute
of the Court, and that committees b
r appointed TO present appropriate res,
lutions to the other Courts of the cit
TO be entered on the minutes, and tina
these proceedings be published
- the papers of this city.
Resolved, That copy of these res
; lutions be forwarded TO the family
the lamented Judge.
Resolved further, ThBt the member
of the Nashville bar viii attend the Fl
neral from Christ Church, at 10 A.
. tomorrow.
The chair then appointed the folloV
ing gentlemen to present the resolU
tions TO the several Courts:
Hon Nathaniel Baxter, to the CT
> cult Court of Davidson county.
Thomas T. Smiley, Esq, TO the Crir
inaI Court of Davidson county.
H. II. Harrison, Esq, TO the Circu
! and District Courts of the United Stat
of this district
Jordan Stokes, ESQ, to the Chance
Court Of Davidson county.
On motion, the meeting then a
iourued.
F. B. FoGG, Chairman.
A. VS.. LINDsLEY, Secretary.