Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1868-08-13
JUSTICES WILLARD AND HoGE.

y@t JUSTICES WILLARD AND hDSE'
The Columbia correspondent OF the Charleston
Neanoe furnishes the subioined sketches Of A II.
Willard and Solomon Hoge, recently elected Asso-
ciate Justices of the Snprsme Court Of South Car
dina. tsE 4z.s ss4Es.!ls ~, - 8.sSsl
sThe antecedmbnf ColrA H Willard, who has
been chosen for the four yean term, are furnished
lin the following skeschs which ! Am indebted
to one Of his friends: -. 8
|eonsenuently Is forfY.six years Of age. Commen-
|cinp the study of. The law in 1872 under Hon. vii
FEs Hal, then Attorney General ofsthe State, he
was admitted to practice in the City Of New York
i'm lS45. In 184S he was appointed Assistant
Counsel of the corporation Of New York, under
Judge Davies, now Chief Justice Of the. Court OF
6ppeals Of New York. During the four years in
which Col Willard thus served, qrestious of the
grayest chara6ten growing out of the changes OF
fhe constitution, md involying. large interests,
claimed hia attention. Hwas ut this time that
dc prinGiplesof Inv recently engrafsed upon tho
judicial system cf South Carolina md the new !
mentally and applied to practical a1ama Deprived
|of his of3ce 10 I849 BY the election Of Democrat,
|ha formed copartnership with Peter B. Sweeny,
3. wen known politician of New York, and with
him was eneaeed IN many Of tie most important
undertaiines than on foot-such, for instance, as
the nrcsent Gity Railway system, the enlargement
Of tbe RstterSs and other local improvemenfa Ia
ter he vas associated in the practice Of lax with
|the present Judge Mcneil, Of the New. .YcrksSn-.
nseme. e Goun. and judge Howe an appointee of
Een Sheridan in New Orleans q - 5r,gy ~.
Tn Noyember. 1854 he, Joined the army, ne
neived n eommission AZ Iieutenant- Colonel Of the
s5th eolored troops-Ehss second regiment that en-
|terei Charleston.. after its fall Soon sfterWards
|Goions Willard was aupointed judge Advocate,
snJ in fiat canaeity t.ied Mesrs Crsrford. KEYS,
Rvram nd StovexAac case vet fnssh In the recol-
lection of ca neoua I'm labS he let the service,
and IN Iuiv 1881 was selected a. Solicitor of the
Second MiI;tar District and to take charge of the
RnTeau Of Civil Affairs which position he has 90
|cTnied I'M tha present time. a.
fn person, Colonel Willard is not an uncanny
looEinr being. He has soft brown, peaceful eye,
that' twinkles with genuine "cuteness, face
which corresponds handsomely with two hundred
hounds of flesh. six feet high, and broad, big
head, covered with grsyish brown hair. Someof
ths hides his mouth and Is pendant to the breast
q r;oht GOOD beard for children 20 ply with. He
n rieht rood talker, argues with the most volu-
6la eGaanimity, don't lose his temper, and isneyer
more happy than when 'discomlng on one-of his
net theories, Of which he has more than yoq can
shake stick at The chief concern of his friends
is fhaf when ON the bench, such win be the vol
canic. .eruption of his ideas in making q decision,
that neither the Chief Justice nor the poor attor-
news will be able to tell where the law begins or
Rsnublicanism ends - 70 - -
Solomon L. Hoge, the Associate Judge, who
ia elected for the two years term, is captain and
breyet major in the Sixth Infantry, and Aching In
-..to- Csonorol ofs tha Eroodmenia Rrrpasis H,r