Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-04-23
THE LATE JUDGE MILLIGAN.
RSsolniions oil Respeet

presiding.
Judge McClain, chairman Of the COM
mittee appointed to draft suitable resolu-
tjons in reference tc the death of Judge
Samuel Milligan, submitted the following
as their report.
sThe Hon. Samuel Milligan was born
in the year 1916, In Greene county in The
State of Tennessee, where he was brought
up, and received in youth the benefits of a
liberal education. He was graduated az
Greeneyille College at an unusually early
ace. and after he had completed his collie
giate course, the people of the county Of
his birth end raisiHg bestowed upon him
the rare compliment OF an election to a seat
in the Legislature of his State, before he
was tw~enty-one years of age.
Eeread law with the Hon. Il. J. McEin-
new. and came 10 the bar when a Young
man and settled at Greeneville. He prac-
ticed law with success. and became emf
nent in his profession. He volunteered
and went to Mexico in the war between the
United States and Mexico, and acquitted
himself hoaorably in tine position of a sol
der.
Alter he returned froii the Sar, he mer-
ried in 1919, Miss Lizzie, the daughter Of
Jacob Howard, of Greeneville, who is also
the sister of the late Hon. John K. How
ard, who fell in the late civil war. AT the
close of the war, he took a distinguished
part in the reorganization of the State Gov
eminent of Tennessee, and was, in 1866,
APPOINTED by Gov. johnson, one Of the
Judges of the first Supreme Bench of the
State NEXT after the war. In this position,
surrounded as it were at the time, with I'M
usual and extraordinary embarTassfnents
and responsibility, he grappled with the
new and difficult legal questions which
sprang from the war, with a patience Of re-
search and power of discrimination and
grasps of thought that proved him to be a
man Of profound legal ambition and of no
ordinary ability
He remained upon the Supreme Bench
of the State till the year 1865, when he re-
signed this Office and was appointed by the
President of the United States one Of the
Associate Judges VI che Court of Claims.
This position ne filed as he had all 9th
ers to which he had been called, with abil-
ty and integrity.
About the first Of March of the present
year he was taken seriously III while On the
Bench and compelled to leave the court
room. He fingered till the 20th Of April,
1874, when the Of death came.
In private life Judge Milligan was a model
Of the social virtues. A constant friend,
an amiable companion and i kind and af-
~fectionate husband and father; and il may
with truth be added as a enOwning excel
lence Of his character that he was a chris
tian. He was a member OF the P~resbyte-
ran Church for many years before hiS
death, and died as be lived, in the faith.
The committee offer the following reSo-
lutiOns in commemOratiOa Of his life and
alteration:
Resolved. that we regard Judge Milligan
as having been an honest and efficient pub
lie officer, and all tfBaTiG aud courteous
gentleman, and we sincerely regret his
death as a great loss to the legal profession
and the country.
Resolved, that we tender to his family
our sympathies IN their great bereave-
ment.
Resolved, thai d COPY Of ticse resolutions
be presented 10 the Federal Court, now III
session at Nashville, with the request that
the same be spread upon its minutes, aud
also to the Supreme Court Of Tennessee,
at its next term at Nashville, with a like
request, and that the request be also made
that they be included in the next volume
Vi tic ECDOItS VI uECAeltA41 u liz RAlAGAAC
Court. and that a copy Of these resolutions
be transmitted to MS family.
Judge NlcClain, in presenting the above
report, said that he regretted thai he did not
enjoy a very intimate acquaintance with
Judge Milligan, bat from what he had heard
uniformly and universally said in regard to
his social qualities, he was fully prepared
to indorss ~eveFythins that was said in fhe
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else said of Judge Milligan butthat lie was
a MAJ Of kind and gentle ~sOciability. His
opinions were in the books and would
speak for themselves. What had been said
about his ability - a iurist weqld meet
with approval By the members OF the bar
throughout the State.
Col. Savage said he became acquainted
with the deceased in 1871, while a member
OF the Legislature, and he considered him
one of the men towards whom be always
had the highest admiration, and Ii who
CHALLENGED Ills highest resDect. Tbs resO-
lutiOns did not Go the deceased m more
justice than he was. entitled TO. II there
was anything in the history of the man
that might call forth criticism upon his
character, in his judgment, they were more
results from the misfOrtuneS Of the time
than in any imperiectien In his character.
He considered hirn one Of the first men in
the country in the point of integrity.
Col. James W. Newman said that the
resolutions did not in any way ~eXsggerate
the good qualities of heart and intellect of
the deceased. Tie had all the Characters
tics of the leaders of Israel. 1t was his
misfortune, with = great many others. 10
differ with him in the late struggle, al
though he had been associated with him in
politics before the wal. Judge Milligan
did not lose the respect, Is far as he u
hear, of any one during that struggle; hls
conduct throughout was that Of atrue man.
In all his social relations, he was kind, par
ticularly to Young men just commencing
their legal career. Ii was n of his great
est pleasures to aid the young men.
Judge Shackleford said that it was his
fortune to be au intimate acquaintance and
associate of Judge Milligan. Upon the re-
organization of the State Government he
was associated with Judge Milligan upon.
the bench and the people of tennessee
were indebted more, perhaps, to Judge
Milligan than almost any other man Tor the
restoration of civil law in Tennessee.
When upon the bench. those harsh feelings
that had risen were by him tempered with
mercy. He would always regard his
memory with the highest reverence.
The resolutions were unanimously adop-
ted.
Judge Shackleford then appointed Judge
A. NJ. Hughes 70 present the resolutions TO
the Federal Court, and Judge Gaut to pre-
sent them to the next term of the Supreme
Court, and the meeting then adjourned.
Judge Hughes, United States District
Attorney, presented the resolutions to the
Federal Court and Judge Trigg author
lied them to be spread upon the minutes.
The Closing Of the Business Of the La
dies Fair.
According to announcements large mum
Der of ladies and gentlemen assembled in
| Masonic Hall yesterday afternoon, TO wit
ness the disposition of the articles Left on
hand at the close Of the fair for the benefit
of ST. Mary's Orphans.
Precisely at , O'Clock. the committees