The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1878-01-17
IN MEMORIAM.

After the Court was called to order J.
S. Anderson Esq. addressed the Court:
May it please the Court: Before the
regular business of the day is begun,
desire to fulfill a duty imposed upon me
by my brethren of the Manitowoc Coun-
ty Bar Association At meeting OF
the bar held tie next day after the
death Of the late Chas. Walker, acorn
mittee was appointed of which youI
speaker was chairman and @. ". White
and E. 3. Treat members, to draft reso-
lutions commemorative of the death OF
our deceased brother and to report the
same to this Court at the opening OF
this term, with the request that the said
resolutions be spread on the records OF
the Court.
At the time of his death our deceased
brother was the oldest resident member
of the bar, and though during the past
two or three years he has not been in
active practice in this court by reason OF
the nature of his disease, he has always
been looked up to with respect and hon.
or whenever he made his appearance
among us, and it is q satisfaction to me
TO have been selected by my brethren to
perform this duty, because it gives me
an opportunity to express my own feel
ings toward the deceased. l shall al
ways cherish and hold in high esteem
his memory.
The deceased was in politics Demo
crat of the old school, accepting and de-
Tending the measures of that party with
zeal, and deprecating all antislavery ag-
itation, therein differing from many of
his professional brethren now present.
But when civil war broke ont none were
more forward in the defense of this
country than he.
He had an only brother, younger than
himself, for whom he cherished Il warmer
regard than usually exists in that rela
tion. That brother marched to the de-
Tense of his country with the first COM
pany that went from Manitowoc. He
went with the full sanction and appro-
baton OF his brother, who soon there
after followed him to the war. He was
my captain. / was near him when he
Eel on the field of battle, and [ assisted
in bulying him in n soldiers grave.
When / again returned to this place at
the close of the war. / met Charles III.
Walker and told him of the circcmstan-
ces of his brothers army life, Of his
death and burial. The sense Of loss, to
him of a brother, to me of a friend
of sympathy between us. And after
wards as student, and in the early
wears, of my practice in this court, [ re-
ceived from him many kindnesses, many
useful words of advice, many courtesies
and Performances. sIlch as an older
practitioner can always show TO one
just beginning to appear at the bar of a
court. But mine was not a solitary in
CT int thn
members OF the bar and in those fitting
Themselves for the profession was pro-
verbal. His large heartedness and
sympathy made him the friend and ad-
wiser of all.
And it is just that we should pause
for time IN the midst of Our busy life
and bear witness Of our respect and es-
TEEN for such a man, and to honor and
perpetuate his memory by recording
such witness in the archives of this
Court. [ therefore report tho following
resolutions and ask that the same be
spread upon the minutes:
WHEREAS. an aIlygise providence has remov-
ed from our midst our esteemed friend and
professional brother. Charles H. Walker, a
pioneer member of the bar of this county
twenty-five years of whose life have been
spent among US IN the duties of his profession,
in the execution of many public trusts and the
practice of social virtues;
And we bearing in mind his able and faithful
public services in the important trusts 10 which
he was called, the ability, integrity and uni
form courtesy of his professional career, the
continual affability ana kindness of heart
which were distinguishing traits of his social
life, and which won for him not merely the
honor and respect, but the love and esteem of
all with whom he came in contact;
And VIC sharing in the general sense of loss
which perYades the community, yet feeling
more deeply the loss of one with whom we
have been brought into closer contact by rea-
son of our professional ana social relations, as
Il united bar, do therefore
ReS0luc, First, that in the death OF Charles II.
Walker the bar of ManitOwOc county has suf-
fered the loss of one of its most honored and
worthy members the community upright
and useful citizen. and his immediate family
enc of its most airectionate and lovable mem
bers,
Second, that in their great bereavement and
irreparable loss, we do hereby tender to his
widow and children, and other relatives, our
Third. that The Circuit Court of Manitowoc
county be requested TO place the foregoing
preamble and resolutions ON its records, and
that the Clerk thereof be instructed 10 send
copy of the same TO the family of the deceased.
]. S, ANDERSON, Chm.
CHAS. W. WHITE,
e. b. TREAT,
Com. of the Man. Co. Bar Association.
May il please the Court, at the meet
ing of the Bar association, j. ID. Mark
ham, Esq, was designated to support
these resolutions in an address to the
Court, and there is peculiar fitness in
this selection. BY the death of Charles
IL. Walker, Mr.. Markham becomes the
oldest resident member of this bar. He
is the one who has known the deceased
longest and been the most intimately
associated with him in the practice of
his profession. l therefore yield to him.
Mr.. Markham then said:
men OF the bari may perhaps be per-
mitted SIS one of the oldest members of
the bar, to say few words concerning
the life of our lamented brother 1 first
met the deceased i'll this city Chen vii
lage) about the first of June, 1856. He
was my senior here by about two wears.
lie met me at first with a genial, cordial
greeting. His kindness to me increased
during all the twenty one years that I
was so intimately associated with him
IN the profession and out of it, and,
my brethren, my experience in that re-
spect / presume has been the same as
yours.
he was regularly and thoroughly ed
ucated for the profession, and labored
earnestly during all his professional life
TO nave the law honestly administered
for the protection of right, and the pre-
ventlon OF wrong; never advising itioa-
ton except as a last resort, and when call
edSo prosecute or defend as he was in this
and adjoining counties in nearly every
litigated case while in active practices.
If the parties quarreled over their criev-
ances he often told me that his motto in
such cases was never 10 do ANYTHING to-
day that could be put off until tomorrow.
so as 10 let them settle and save work
lie always treated his opponents fairly,
and never prolonged litigation for the
sake of fees, and was at all times ready
to meet and accept fair propositions for