The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-14
LAST TRIBUTE. OF RESPECT.
The Action Of the County Bar AssOcia-
ton on the Death of Judge Test.
Appropriate Remarks by Judge Julian and
the Memorial Reported by the Commit
tee Appointed for that Purpose.

A meeting of the Marion County Bar Associa-
ton was held in Judge Taylors courtroom yes
terday morning, to hear the report of the com
mittee appointed last Saturday to prepare me-
mortal on the death of the late Judge Charles H.
Test. Judge Julian presided and J. B. Man
love was chosen secretary. Before the reading
of the memorial, in a tribute to the memory of
the deceased, Judge Julian said:
JUDGE JULIAN's TRIBUTE.
Before action is taken on the report of the
committee, presented through Major Gordon, l
desire to express my approval of the same.
have known Judge Test, L may say, quite all my
lifetime. As a small boy at the time it occurred,
l remember his admittance to the bar in the
Wayne Circuit Court, in the year 1922. remem-
Der it the better from the fact of his appoint
ment to defend an impecunous neighbor of my
| father who had been charged with driving off
| neighbours horse without his consent. L have
known him ever since, most of the time init
| mately.
Judge Test was good lawyer and successful
| practitioner having as an advocate few, II any,
equals i'll the State He was a pleasant man
in his intercourse with the peoples to his profes-
sional brethren he kind and courteous; for
the youthful aspirant for professional
honor he had nothing but kindness and
| words of encouragement. He sought to
make friends rather than enemies.
| His disposition eminently social, and, with
his genial temper, and overlooking with wit and
humor as he was, he was great favorlte with
the people, and no less so with his professional
associates, to whom, on off the circuit, he was
much endeared. He devoted to his family,
who in return, quite worshiped him. In all the
relations of life he was one of the kindest and
best of men. He did not grow rich. Money
| making or rather money saving flor in his
practice he made money!, was not his forte.
In charities and otherwise it slipped through his
fingers For sixty years he was more or less
Will INr1tli affa nf tiTOa
| holding important public trusts, discharging
faithfully the several duties thereof His official
integrity was never called in question There
was never a suspicion of wrong-doing on his part,
and he has gone to his grave with stainless
record as an honored man. With the
exception of the venerable Judge Perry,
| of Richmond, he is the last of the early
lawyers of the Whitewater valley, if not of the
State. He was the last of long line of men
/ distinguished as lawyers and otherwise III the
States history. [ suggest that in connection with
the report of the proceedings of this meeting to
the court, on some other occasion, some
! whose duty it shall be to prepare 1t, shall pre-
sent appropriate sketch Of the life of Judge
| Test. 1t is due to his memory, to the public at
| large and to ourselves as his surviving asso-
ciates 1t affords great pleasure to be able
| to bear this feeble testimony to the worth of an
| old friend, now no more.
Judge Julian was requested to prepare bio
graphical sketch of Judge Test bearing espe-
ciaily upon his relation to the jurisprudence of
Indiana. Major Gordon presented the following
memorial which was approved and it
dered that it should be made part of the rec
ords of the courts
THE MEMORIAL ADOPTED.
Mr.. President and Gentlemen: Your committee who
were charged by you with the preparation of a
rial tribute to venerable brother Charles H. Test
respectfully submit the following memorials
The death of Charles H. Test, the Oldest member of
the bar of the State at the time of his death is
event too full OF melancholy interest and interesting
suggestions of the past to be allowed to without
memorial that shall descend to the coming genera
tions of the State to whose development he contrib
uted much. His life in the State reached back be-
yond its organization and was Immediately connected
almost from the first with its development and
as civil and progressive community. For more than
fifty years he gave every public enterprise an hon
est encouragement and to the youth of the State the
example of an upright and pure life, without blame
reproach. At the end of such a it is fit and
becoming for his juniors to pause and gancing at its
glorious headands, endeavor TO learn the great lesson
it has set for all who shall follow him in the course of
Judge Test started with the worlds greatest CEN
fury, which is drawing to its close; and among
all the millions who have labored to crown it with
achievements for the advancement of humanity,
| have been more honest and earnest than he He en-
tered the profession of the iawsef prepared-at the
| age of twenty years; and at took honorable
| rank among the great of the times. The
panion of Caswel Drew Raridan Eggeston Oliver
H. Smith, John 5. Newman caleb B. Smith Samuel
w. Parker, David Wallace, George Holland, Judge
Perry, and the two Mobiles, he always recognized
the prizes of professional life and labor. In all his
professional intercourse with his brethren he was
| straightforward, simple, frank, and true and just
man complained of him for violating any en-
gagement or interpreting to his advantage at the
cost of candor He began his professional life in that
way and at the end OF his career could have said with
truth Il have not sulied in the strfes of my later
manhood. the record of my YOUTH
Admitted to the bar in 1922, he appointed
Judge of his circuit and confirmed by the Senate six
years later. He served for term of seven years in
that high office, with honor to himself and advantage
thaf h ha
chosen by the people to the position in the Tip
pecanoe circuit and added to the honors he had al
ready achieved as sound lawyer and just and able
judge Still later in this county he held and adorned
the bench of Criminal Circuit Court, always dar-
ing to be fair and just not only against audaeious
clamor also In judci%l career of more than TWEEN
ty-three years he was always able just and fairly
| courteous to everything but bubble a quibber.
He did not try to conceal his aversion for these; and
trick, matter how clever practsed matter by
whom was sure to meet merited and indignant re
Duke when detected
He was at different times member of the General
Assembly, serving at least two terms in the House
and one in the Senate Here, as upon the bench and
at the bar, his path straight and in the light of
unquestonable uprightness Had he been selfseeking
while in the Senate he might have been elected to the
Senate of the United States but he rejected the SPLEEN
| did prize, choosing rather to keep faith with his
friend than to advance himself. When such self
denial is found in who has reached middle life the
period when ambitions prizes most dazzle u.s. his ex-
ample not be too strongly emphasized.
He was chosen Secretary of State by the General
| Assembly of 1849, and served until 1853. Here as
in other positions his services marked b. care and
fidelity to every public interest and his records will
show dilgent fairness not always equaled since,
and certainly never surpassed. He was jealous of
fair records
| AS a citizen he full Of public spirit. great
party detection as he conceived forced him in 1854
to break with his party and he returned to it
afterwards. He stood for the landmarks of the
fathers; and his zeal against the repeal of the Mis-
| souri, Compromise a consuming fire.
| He was vigorous thinker clear, forcible and
elegant writer, and had his lot not forbade him the
Halis of Yatu ba UOull hay dc
tingushed there. At time, regarding the lecture
| mania abuse of the time, he prepared and de-
livered lecture "Lecturing and Lectures that
was attempt to stem current that at the time was
irresistible.
In private life-n the family and all social inter-
he de1iohtfil