Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-12-25
Proceedings of the Bar. in Respect 90
the NeHlory of RObf. d. Foster. Sr.

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The members Of the Bar in attendance
upon the Chancery Court yesterday morn
ing, met pursuant to adjournment. TO man
ifest their seGse Of the common bereave-
ment in the death of Robert c. Foster. Sr.
The committee appointed on Monday to
prepaIe a testimonial, through w. B.
Reese, Esq, submitted the following re-
port
When one who has SO long and so honor
ably filled every relation in life as did Rob
ert G. Foster, Sr., passes away, it is fit and
proper for his professional associates to ex-
press their sense of his worth, and to com
mend his conduct as Eworthy Of imitation
to those who are to come after us. One of
your committee has known and practiced
at .he same Bar with Mr.. Foster ever since
| the year 1918, how more than half cen
! tury, and it seems but the day, during the
| present term Of the Chancery Court, when
we all saw him here attending to bu.iness
with the same ilNlefatigable zeal and bland,
! courteous pOliteness for which he was ever
distinguished.
| Robert {. Foster was the second son Of
| Robert e. Foster, 1St, his elder brother be-
inc Hon. Ephraim II. Foster. Born in the
| year 1896, in Davidson county, a few
/ lllptitiiS dllGI Lt4t t-dllllLCu DistJt Cl
| Tennessee was admitted into the Union,he
died at Florence, Alabama, while on visit
to his children, on the Dist of December.
| 1873 in the 18th year Of his age.
| What period Of the worlds history have
his three score years and ten embraced ,
| Born in what was then Il wilderness filed
with scalping Indians, he lived to see his
native State thG peaceful home Of more
/ 4l,a, million of ar,I Il
| citizens. Nashville, then a cluster Of log
tenements near The French Lick, surround
! ed by military stockade for protection
against attacks from savage foes, now boasts
the possession Of many buildings aS beauti-
| full and elegant rs those which adOn any
| city in the Union. In 10 period Of equal
| length have such sweeping and E,r-reaching
| changes heGa crowded, as have been wit
messed during the lifetime of the subject
| Of our notice, both in this country and in
other nations. it needs bat to suggest a
| few salient points to show how strikingIv
| this is true, In 1876, George
! Washington vas President of the United
States, George / Ii was King of England.
| and Napoleon Bonaparte young soldier OF
fortune commanding in Italy. 1t required
| twenty dayS of ar,luOus tOiling over rough
1
to travel from the capital of the nation 10
this place, in mid-winter. Now, with as
much comfort as if sitting in your own
house, you are whirled over this distance
in twice as many hours as it then required
days.
Bnt the political and social changes dur
| g'the same period, There have been ad-
! ded To the United States the Mississippi
Territory, Florida, Texas, New Mexico,
| California, and others. ag area largely more
than was originally possessed. Tennessee
was under a compact with North Carolina,
| lOOSiIs 90 the permanent existence of the
! then labor SYSTEM. Hut we are now living,
eight years after a total revolution in this
! regard, and we have all succeeded i'm read
| iustine ourselves to the change in less time
| than we had deemed it possible so TO do.
Having had his lot cast in so busy and
eventful a period, i "a no small praise to
say that Mr., Foster ever maintained posi-
tiOn Gf more than ordinary mark and dis
| tinciion in the community in which he
| lived, coming to the bar in 1916 and having
to cope with such men during his career as
| Felix Grundy, Henry Crabb, Jenkin White
sides, o. b. Hays, G. w. Gibbs, John Cat
ron, James Campbell, Thomas Washing
ton, q. W. Campbell, DANES Trimble. VIM.
! L. Brown. David G9aighead, John Marshall,
John Bell. :.nd Return 5. AIeigs, it Is to his
hQnor to say that from first 10 last he al
ways had a large, not To say leading prac-
tice in the courts.
B;;t Is was in the domestic and social
/ circle he was most pFe-emincDtly distin-
| guished for every trait which adorns and
haautifieS a character. Kind, generous,
considerate and loving, he ever was, whetll-
er as husband, as father, rs friend, or as
| neighbOr. His temL+F was mild and even,
| his manners over polite and courteous to
! ylI;,.g and old, to high and low. Therefore,
Resolved, that we deeply sympathze
with his relatives and friends in their and
our loss Of so valuable member Of society
| and ST. distinguished member Of Our pro-
| acssi0n.
Resolved that the Secretary Of this meet
ing furnish copy Of these proceedings TO
the family Of tlle deceased, and that the
! Chancellor be asked to have them spread
upon the minutes Of the court now in sos-
sion, aud that the chairman appoint some
member Of the Bar to request the Supreme
COgst abOgt to convene at Nashville to
| have them entered upun the minutes Of
that court and that the Attorney General he
asked to append them to the current vol
une ofthe Supreme Court reports.
Respectfully submitted.
FRANCIS B. FOGG
NATHANIEL BANTER SR,,
NEiII. ;. Brown, So,
JACKSON II, WH!fE,
w. y, REEsf,.
Committee.
Upon motion the report Of the committee
and the resolutions were adopted. The
chairman then appointed Gov. y. $. Brown
to present the resolutions t2 ihe Supreme
| Court, and stated that he would er QDiciO
direct tic entering Of them upon the min
u,es Of the Cbancegy Court.
ThereupOn the meeting was ad.0AFned.
W. +. C0aRy,n, Chairman.
J. III. SHANSIAsD, Secretary.
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