Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-06-11
THE LATE JUDGE CORNELL.
Tribute OF the Bar of the State and the
Supreme Court to His Memory.

minutes of its last days session will long
be referred to as marking the day when
appropriate proceedings were had to pay
respect aud honor to the memory of one
of its justices who died in the harness, so
to speak.
The members of the bar throughout
the State deemed this fitting time
to give expression to their sense of the
] loss the profession and the State at large
had sustained in the death of Hon. Fran
els r. E. Cornell, late associate justice of
the supreme court, and to that end a
meeting was called to be held at the SUI
preme court room at 8 o'clock this morn
ing. Some delay was Occasioned by the
detention of trains, but at $3.50 A. NJ. the
assemblage was called to order by H. r.
Bigelow, Esq, of st. Paul who nominated
Hon. Gordon E. Cole as chairman of the
meeting. Upon taking the chair Mr..
Cole stated that it was intended that At
torney General Hahn should preside upon
the occasion, but he had been called
home on account of sickness, which
necessitated the change in the pro-
gramme He said further that Mr. Hahn
desired to record his sentiments of es-
TEEN and respect for the deceased and
regretted that he could not
be present in person. Mr. Cole further
stated that the meeting had assembled to
pay tribute of respect to the memory of
the late Judge Cornell.
On motion of Lorenzo Allis, Esq, Sam
uel HI. Nichols, clerk of the supreme
court, was elected secretary of the meet
ing.
A large representation of the bar
of Ramsey county was present,
and among those from abroad
was Messrs. E. M. Nilsson, VIM.
Loehren, j. NJ Shaw, Judge Atwater,
D. A. Secombe, A L. Levi and H. G. o.
Morrison, of Minneapolis; Messrs w NJ
Mcclure and j. N. Castle, of Saltwater,
and W. D. W. Pringle, of Hastings. Hon.
R. r. Nelson, of the United States dis
trict court, Senator Mcmillan, Gov Pills
bury, A. V. Tousley and other dIstin-
guished citizens were present also.
consisting of Messrs. Geo. B. Young, NJ
j. Severance, Lorenzo Allis, VIM. Loeb
rem, j. NJ Shaw, E. M. Wilson and w.
NJ Mcclure, Ito which the presiding Off
Ger, Mr. Cole, was added, was appointed
to draft memorial expressive of the
sentiments of the meeting upon the oc-
caSion.
The motion prevailed and the meet
ing took recess for twenty
minutes, at the expiration of
which the committee through its
chairman, Judge Young, reported the fol-
lowing memorial, which was adopted, and
the meeting adjourned:
MEMORIAL:
We, the members of the bar of the State OF
Minnesota, deem it app. OPP. late that we should
place on record an expression of our sense of
the great loss to our State and its judiciary,
and to our profession, caused by the death of
Hon. Francis r. E. Cornell, one of the JUS
tees of the supreme court of our State, which
occurred on the 23d day of May last.
More than twenty-five years of his vigorous
manhood were passed among us in the con-
slant and successful practice Of our profession.
Endowed with quickness of perception and
clearness of judgment to degree rarely unit
ed in the same person, with his thorough
training and application, he excelled in all
branches of the profession and stood foremost
at the bar of the State, his career being marked
no less by eminent ability and strict integrity
than by that uniform kindness and courtesy
towards his brethren which won for him
the bar, to whom he was the model of profess
sional excellence. His fitness for the highest
professional honors was recognized by his
brethren at the bar, and by the people of the
State. After discharging the duties Of attor-
ney general for repeated terms with signal
ability, he was elevated to the bench of the SUI
preme court, and has left judicial record
without blemish and above criticism, which
will remain an mperishable testimony to his
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shall have faded in the shadows Of tradition.
Deeply deploring our loss, which has taken
from our State one of its most gifted and esti-
mable citizens, from the bench one of the
ablest of jurists, and from our profession a
brother loved and revered by us all, we can
contemplate with satisfaction his useful and
blameless life and rejoice that SO much of him
is left to us in the records of the State and of
the supreme court. And we respectfully ask
that this court permit this brief expression of
our regard for the memory of our honored
brother to be entered upon its records.
ACTION OF THE COURT.
Immediately after the adjournment of
the bar meeting, the judges of the SUI
preme court, Chief Justice Gilfillan
and Associate Justices Berry, Clark and
Mitchell, appeared in the court room and
took their seats on the bench. Court
being opened, Hon. Gordon E. Cole arose,
and in speech of some length presented
the memorial adopted by the bar, and
moved that it be spread upon the
minutes of the court. In
making this motion, Mr.. Cole
alluded to his long acquaintance with the
deceased, extending over quarter of a
century He had been associated with
him in the trial of both civil and criminal
cases, and had thus ample opportunity to
form correct estimate of his pure char
acter and high legal abilities. Passing
from this he referred to the uniform
kindness Judge Cornell had always
evinced to the younger members of the
profession, aiding and assisting them in
their difficult efforts to obtain a position
at the bar He closed with an eloquent
tribute to the acknowledged purity of
Judge Cornell's private and public life.
Hon. E. M. Wilson followed in brief
but eloquent address, referring to his
deceased, and paid glowing compliment
private citizen and public officer In
the bar WIRE proud of his life, and now
took pride in honoring his memory.
Judge Atwater next arose and said he
fully concurred, not only in the senti-
ments expressed in the memorial, but also
in the remarks made by the gentlemen
who had preceded HIM. He said Judge
Cornell had impressed his character upon
the history of the State. Such a man
should be remembered, especially by
the members of the bar, and he had left
behind him an example worthy of the
emulation of the best. Judge Cornell
had demonstrated in his blameless
life that there were higher prizes
in this world than the accumulation of
wealth. He then referred in feeling
terms to his long acquaintance with
Judge Cornell, of over twenty-six years,
as neighbor and friend, and closed by