The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1884-05-14

Proceedings Had In Common Pleas
Court.
The committee appointed at a meeting
Of the members OF the Bar Of Highland
county, held April IL, 1884, to draft ap-
propriate resolutions on the death Of
Moses p. beaverton, reported the follow
ing resolutions, which we're read and
offered by Henry A. Psvey, Esq, with
motion that the Clerk be ordered to enter
them upon the journal of the Court:
Resolved, /. That in the death of Moses
p, beaverton in his early manhood and
In the beginning of a professional career
that had every promise of great useful
ness to the community and Of bringing
to him honor and emOlument, we recoR-
nize one of those sad events which most
fOrcibly remind MS Of the uncertainty Of
the realization of mans hopes and aspir-
ations in this life. And that by this sud
den and unexpected calamity the Bar of
this county and district has been depriv-
ed Of member who did equal honor to
the profession and to himself bV a faith
full and conscientious discharge of everv
duty in an intelligent and able manner,
while his social and domestic virtues in
private life endeared the man to all who
knew him.
Resolved, 2, That we tender to his fam
lily and relatives our sincere and heartfelt
sympathy in this their hour of aflictiOn
and sad bereavement, and direct that
copy OF these resolutions be delivered to
them by the Secretary of this meeting.
Re8OlUed, Sd. That CODY of these resO.
lutiOns be presented to the Court Of Com.
mon Pleas of Highland county upon the
opening of its next term, with the re-
quest that the same be entered Of record
upon the journal of the Court, and that a
copy of said resolutions be also presented
to each OF the county papers for publica.
tion. HENRY A. PAvEY,
A. G. MATTHEWS,
r. M. DITTEY,
G. B. GARDNER,
H. N. PATTON,
Committee
Mr.. Pavey having offered the resolu-
tions said:
Having offered these resolutions as the rep.
resentative Of the whole bar, 1 now desire
with the permission of the Court to add an ex-
respect and esteem for the man who 80 recent
ly was our friend and companion.
Moses P. beaverton was born and reared
upon his fathers farm in this county. Studi-
GUS, thoughtful, and earnest from his child
hood, he early in life developed and cultivated
q taste for study and general reading, which
In connection with the educational advantages
he enjoyed enabled him to accumulate large
fund of useful knowledge. This with the
practical business training he received while
assisting in the conduct Of his fathers aHairs,
we'll fitted him for an honorable and useful
career. The prospective acquisition of wealth
by inheritance has ruined thousands Of Young
men Of bright promise, whose ease-loving
natures required a stimulus TO eXertion that
stern necessity alone could supply.
But this man sCOrned the idea Of being a
drone in the worlds great hive, to eat in idle
ness and dependence bread acquired bv the
toll Of others. His inherent manliness and |
pride forbade him 10 view the worlds great
battlefield from place Of safety and inaotion |
in the rear and ever prompted him to strive |
with generous enthusiasm TO be q hero In the 1
strife, Never very strong and robust, and !
preierTing intellectual pursuits 10 the hard |
labor required upon a farm, he commenced the |
study Of law with Judges Matthews and Hug |
gins, of this place, In the year 1873. Being |
close and diligenJ student, possessed Of sound |
Judgment and the faculty Of concentrating all |
bis mental forces and bringing them to bear
upon the task he had undertaken, he very .
soon obtained a thorough knowledge Of the .
elementary principles Of the law and upon ap. /
plioation to the Supreme Court Of Ohio be was |
admitted to the Bar in 1881.
He at once entered into the practice Of his |
remaining In the office Of the firm .
where be had formerly been a student. This .
lasted until Judge Huggins retired .
from the firm 10 take his seat upon the bench
After the retirement Of Judge Huggins, Mr.. /
beaverton formed q partnership with Judge .
Matthews which was continued until O few .
weeks previous 10 his death.
F 1r more than year before bis partnership .
With Judge Matthews was dissolved he had |
1een afflicted with pulmonary troubles and .
leart disease and his health gradually declin- /
'dJ yet his strong and earnest nature refused |
10 yield 10 the obvious and pressing necessity
0r repose and freedom from am care and exer-
ion until, hoping against hope, and striving
with all the eageness Of unsatisfed ambition
20 regain the health that should enable him TO
ealize his anticipatiOus Of winning fame,
lOnor aud emolument, tho strength Of his
Iystem gave way entirely and but three weeks
before bis death, and not then realizing the
ntal grasp Of the destroyer was upon him, he
and with unwilling grace retired
or time only, as he thought-to seek a
espite from suffering, and the coveted rostora-
ion TO health in the land Of sunshine and
lowers, where the rigOrs Of a northern cline
lever come 10 chill the life blood and enfeeble
he frame. But for him it was an too late.
he end was near 40 hand, even when the