The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-01-30
THE NEW CHIEF JUSTICE.

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THE NEW CHIEF JUSTICE.
Biographical Sketch of the Hon. Nor
risOn r. Waite.
From the Gin innati Enquirer.
Morrison r. Waite is the third con-
| tribution of Ohio to the supreme court
of the United States within the last
twelve years. OF him, as of his pre-
! decessors, the state of Ohio is proud,
with good reason. Mr. Waite is presi-
dent of the Ohio constitutional conven-
tion, and since its session in this city
many of our citizens have had the
! pleasure of making his acquaintance,
and have learned to esteem the man
| whose fame came before him as one
who, at the Geneva tribunal of arbitra-
| ton, had, in rejecting honor on his
nation, thrown a lustTe on Ohio, the
| theatre of his professional life. Nor
rison r. Waite inherited legal ability.
He was born at Lynne, Connecticut, on
the 29th of November, 1916, and has
Just passed into his fifty-eighth year.
His father, Henry NJ. Waite, was TWEEN
ty-three years one of the judges of the
supreme court of errors in Connecticut,
the last three of which he was chief
justice.
His preparation for college was made
at Bacon academy, Colchester, Conn.
In 1887 he graduated at Yale, not with
first honors at Yale college, but with
high rank as an Grafton man. After
graduating he studied law one year
with his father, then IN 1888 moved to
Maumee City, then the county seat of
Lucas county, Ohio. There he studied
in the Office of Samuel M. Young, with
whom, when admitted to the bar in
1889, he entered into law partnership
under the name of Young Il Waite,
which continued until 1856, the firm
II owing in 1850 with the county seat to
Toledo. In 1856 the partnership of
Young & Waite was dissolved, and
about year later he formed a partner
ship with his brother, Richard Waite,
under the firm name of NJ. r. & r.
Waite, which continues to the present
the same, except that his son, s. z
Waite, has become the junior member
of il.
Mr.. Waite has neither sought nor
Stunned political life. He never chose
it, for he preferred practicing his pro-
fession. In 1880 he was a mem
Der of the Ohio Legislature. By in
heritanee and preference he was whig
until the first days of the republican
party, when he Joined its ranks. Though
never a partisan, his convictions were
strong, and he generally assisted his
party in election campaigns. In 1916
he was defeated for congress in con-
test with William Sawyer. In the year
1862 he was prevailed upon to run as
the conservative union candidate against
Jim Ashley, radical republican, and
r. E. Phelps. Iadical democrat, and
though he got all except five hundred
votes in the city of Toledo, was de-
feated by Ashley.
His last political service was as the
associate counsel of Hon. Caleb Cush-
ing and W. M. Evarts in the Geneva
arbitration. Though the sessions of
the arbitration lasted from June 10 to
September Is, 1872, the counsel were
on the ground in October, 1871, and
spent the intervening time In preparing
the case. With what honor he came
of from this contest fame has trum-
peted and two continents know.
His person is an exponent of his
mind-compact, solid, vigorous and
healthful. He is of medium stature,
stout, but not ovef-latge, erect, of bill !
ious temperament, dark complexion,
eyes and hair, and the picture of health
and vigor. His face is strongly marked, |
and expressive of good nature and |
firmness, There is nothing stiff or
forbidding in his manner; on the con- |
trary, his dignity is of that unconscious, |
inviting sort which is the very antipode
of assumption.
Those who know him best describe !
him as a ma1i of great legal learning, !
severely logical mind and a vigorous
thinker, though, not what is called
brilliant man. His mind is one of the
II. ,Dff
while life lasts. His business habits,
they say, are extremely systematic, but
he himself gives all the credit OF this
system to bis brother and junior part
ner in the law firm to which he belongs.
That of hard worker, but not an over
worker, is another characteristic his ac-
ouaintances attribute 10 him. BY re-
creations, which are chiefly social, he
has kept his mind elastic and his body
strong. As a man of sterling integrity,
spotless moral life, an intelligent con-
scientiousness, which is carried into all
the acts of his life, he enjoys a rsptta-
ton to be coveted. Well balanced In
mind and temper, he has the most PER
feet self control and o. rare facility in
winning and holding friends.
Mr.. Waite and his wife are members
of the Protestant Episcopal church.
He has two sons and a daughter. One
son, whom we have mentioned, is his
law partner In Toledo, The other, Mr..
G. ". Waite. is Superintendent Of the
Muskingum Valley railroad, and resides
at ZanesviIlc. His daughter, who, with
his wife, have been stopping with him
at the Burnet House during the con-
vention, accompanied him to Geneva IN
1871. The daughter remained, resld-
! ing in different parts of Europe and
visiting Palestine and Egypt, and re-
/ turned only q few months ago.