Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1867-07-19
Resolutions and Remarks on the
Death Of Judge Paddock.

Death OF Judge PADDOCK
At a meeting of the Orleans County
Bar held on the 9th day Of July, 1867,
a committee consisting of John l..
Edwards, John FL. Prentiss, and ID.
G. Wilson, Esquires, was appointed
to draft resolutions expressive OF
their respect for the memory OF the
late Hon. James A. Paddock, and re-
port at a subsequent meeting which
committee at a meeting of the Bar
held On the 10th of July, 1867, re-
ported the following resolutions:
Resotued, That we truly deplore
the death of the late James A. Pad
dock; the salt has lost of its SAVIOR;
the Bar has lost of its virtue and
worth,-a model lawyer; an educat-
ed and courteous gentleman; a good
citizen; a dignifed and honest man;
one whose precepts, if we act on them,
whose example, if we follow it, whose
memory, if we revere it, will make US
wiser, better, nobler lawyers as well
as men.
Resolued, That the foregoing reso-
lutions and the action of this meeting
be reported to the court in its present
term, accompanied by request that
the same be ordered to be placed on
the records of the court, and a copy
thereof, certified by the clerk be
transmitted to the worthy surviving
widow and family of the deceased.
On motion of J. P. Sartle, Esq, the
foregoing resolutions were unani-
mously adopted,
l. n. CUsHMAN, Secretary.
July 10, 1867.
John FL. Prentiss Esq, having read
to the conrt the foregoing proceed
ingS, said: May it please the court,
| move, that, in accordance with the
request set forth in the last resolution
a statement of these proceedings be,
by order Of your honers placed On
the records of this court; and i'll sup
port of this proposition, insomuch as
his honor, the presiding judge, was
less acquainted than his associates
with Mr.. Paddock it is perhaps pro
per that | should say something to
the court touching the life and charac-
ter Of the deceased.
= Judge Paddock was a native of
. Vermont, born in Peacham in 1898,
, and received at the Academy there
his primary education from an ins ii
tuition which, your hOnor8 we'll know
them ranked among the highest of its
kind in the state He entered college
! in Burlington, and, after the usual
course of study graduated there, and
having completed his preparatory
study of the law was admitted to the
; bar and commenced the practice Of
his profession in CraftSbury where he
resided to the time Of his death, which
d occurred in April last. His mother
was a sister of the late Governor
. Crafts, and. from the latter he derived
! much of his wise counsel, and learned
:, many maXims which sage only cal
devise or has prudence and virtue t
adopt and teach. In his early pro
feSsional career he did a good con
stantly increasing business aud CAV,
: forth much of hope and promise foI
T. the future of his life. But before h,
= had fairly attained the prime of hi
manhood his health declined, and be
,. ing impressed with need for more o
IOut-Of-d0ors exercise than a strict dc
votion to his professional life woul,
T permit, he turned his attention to pur
!. suits more congenial to his tastes an,
$ the demands of his physical conatitu
y ton; and thencetorth, though he die
# not entirely quit the practice of tn
II law while his life remained, he sough
IS no professional employment and CAV
attention reluctantly and only to sue
f professional business as the partialit
IS and implicit faith OF suitors force
d, upon him.
lie Within the years of his wanin
IS professional life he was an assistan
p judge of this court, and by meals {
If his legal attachments, and his SCUM
judicial mind and judgement he col
~. tessedly and materially aided tn
- court in the performance of its impO
tant duties. Subsequently he wa
chosen judge of the probate court fo
=, this probate district, a position fo
e which he was pre-eminently fitted b
y his legal requirements, his SCUM
Il judgment, his wisdom and prudenc
r. his unprecedented mind, his exalte
" reverence for justice, his knowledg
7. of mankind, and his sympathy for til
II widow and the orphaned. For tn
u place he so nearly seemed by his vi
es tues to have been ordained, that it
to no disparagement to others, to sa
that had the people been less subjeC
to the imperious exactions of par
- and as true to the state and faithfl
h. to themselves as he was true to tt
=; state and faithful to them, he wouI
# have adorned that position while h
~ life remained. In his individualit
: as man, he was Of pure integrit
~ gifted with nice, puhtcilious sense Q
honor, and admirably illustrated tt
% force Of Pope's observation that &
10 honest mans the noblest work
III God, he earned, and could have ha
as unanimously in Craftsbury, as A
istides earned and had in Athe1s, tt
surname of The Just; as a Christi;
~ man he was exemplary and SINGER
=, as a citizen, patriotic and true; as
~ judge, upright and just; as a lawyt
'0' courteous, discreet, and wise; and
all his outward life and manifest
tions he clearly demonstrates that
al the paramount ends he aimed at we
III his Gods, his countrys, and truth