Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-03-26
HENRY F. MASrERSON.
Meeting of th- Bar Yesterday Eiog uent
Tribuee {" The Memory Of ap Able and
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i special meeting OF the Ram
county bar association WAS held al III
old court house al o'clock yesterda
afternoon, to receive the report of II
committee Of which Hon G. Z. Flar
drau was chairman, appointed at q pr
vious meeting to prepare tribute To til
memory of the iaie Henry T, Mastersor
ESQ. The meeting was called 10 orde
by c. H. Bigelow, ESQ, president of III
ASSOCIATION, r. B. Galusha, ESQ, secre
tary in his position.
Mr. Flandrau, in presenting the repor
OF the committee, SAID the bar of Ramse,
county had been in existence since 1S49
Since that time 1t had grown and expand
ed with the state, and LIE did not think Il,
eyarerated when he claimed for it tina
# had filed as important part in the af
fairs OF the county as Lad the members g
INV other calling It was desirable, hi
said that the honorable and infuentia
past form in moulding and shaping the
history Of the county. and state
n the past should be combined
IN the future. He had been
connected with the bar of Ramsey county
for thirty years, and in writing Of it for
{. recent publication, he had felt called
upon TO say that it was graceful asso-
citation of gentlemen" He saw no rea-
son for changing that opinion Of it in
the least, and he trlSteG nothing would
occur in the future 10 make it necessary
10 modify II in the least. With this view
it had seemed TO him that the bar N pay
lnc tribute 10 departed brother, should
indulge in no blind eulogy, but rather
seek to place upon the record a truthful
estimate of his character, fer the ben
eft of history. Such had been the
view of the committee IN formu-
lating the report TO be presented. Mr..
Masterson was one of the very oldest Of
the members OF the Ramsey county bar,
possessing rare legal attachments and
very lovable and noble characteristics,
but he was not free from his failings. In
concluding, Judge Flandreau said be had
spoken as he had for the purpose of i'm
pressing upon members the idea that re-
ports of this character should be made of
value as facts and not merely as simple
eulogies.
Judge Flandrau then read the report of
the committee as follows, concluding
with motion for their adoption:
Your committee in their endeayor 10 rescue
from the custody OF mere memory, the pOr-
-raiture of tie late Henry T. Masterson, who
wasof the early time, the events Of which rest
largely in tradition, and the remem brance
whereof die with the last actor in them, are
fseiingIy persuaded in heir endeavor to COM
memOrate him, that the bar has lost not only
the lovable, gueless man, bpt'also its histo-
lie arrived in ST. Paul on the Goth dav of
June, A. D. 1S49, and from that time to the
day OF his death, was au active, earnest and
able prosecuting lawyer. In shaping the
railway System Of the state by the Legislation
enacted with such prescience of the manifest
destiny of Minnesota and tie new Northwest
beyond, he bore a nspicuous part, and to his
last day the consequence of that sys. |
lem, out of which sprang the conception OF
The Northern Pacific railroad, tie Canadian |
Pacific railroad, and the demonstration that |
beyond where even it was thought that frost |
and desulation had set bound TO man, there |
lies region of great fertility, the future, home
of millions, ninistered to the just pride which |
ne had in being one OF those who conceived it |
and laid down the line upon which those
results were built.
he was learned and scientific lawyer. He
wound the principles which lies within the
cases. He had an instinct for the legal ele-
ments of any controversy. While he was for
this reason formidable antagonist, he was
also a manly and generous one, for his argu-
mentS were always opened by statements OF
the trne question At issue, and rejection OF
merely collateral and dependent facts.
There was sort OF chivalry ABOUT tbs man
in this. The judicial records OF the state
abound with the evidence Of his industry,
learning and ability.
BUTT IS after all the personal traits Of men
which enable or disvalue character, and he
was the possessor Of many of those which
commanded respect, no matter whether their
owner is a successful man or not.
Y hn Zro find
truest courtesy, tolerant charity, active well
doing.in all the social relations, self denying
friendships, the frankness of the child, hu-
mihty in success, and patience in sd
yersity. # anything appears in his profess
si0nal career that the bar cannot commend, il
nevertheless cheerfully exonorates his memory
from any Identical shortcomings IN duty.
Gathering the recollection OF such traits as
these in the hope that they may remain long
in memory, which is ali too pleading when {
charged with 3 lawyers fame, we attest that
they existed in him to a degree which makes
his death to be lamented.
We commend his memory to preservation
by those who survive him for the good that {
was in him, aud we share although we can I
not tighten the grief which his death has =
caused to his kin and intimate friends.
In seeonding the motion for the adop- I
ton of the reports, Mr.. IL. L. Moss spoke
as follows:
Mr.. President: In rising TO second the res ,
olution of the chairman Of the committee for .
the adoption of the memorial, wish to add !;
my feeble tribute to the memory of Henry +.
Masterson
As look around and call TO mind the names
of the attorneys now tesldingin Ramsey coun- e
ty, am reminded that he was one of the p
small number who came to Minnesota during
the first year of her territorial existence, most
of whom have passed from earth-only 1ew :
remain. =
The report of your committee brings before Il
us the prominent characteristics OF the life of :
our departed friend Many incidents might be =
given in detail, in addition 10 the brief state
ments in said report did time and space per
nit. 7
For many years, especially during the time !
was Territory, Mr.. Masterson :. :
ranked among the formost of her attorneys as
a successful practitioner. AS lawyer it was r
his delight to become interested IN causes,
of a personal character, yet in final
results, pertainrd to the welfare OF the citizen
and the State. 1t was his ambition to secure
success, and decisions founded upon well es- \
tablished principles of justice and right. 10
many cases, untiring labor and persistent ap .
plication secured to him triumph and repu-
tat.on which time and adversely can never OBJ %
scure or Obliterate n