The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-09-04
IN MEMMORIAM,
Hon. IL. NJ. sullivan.

piSNiouS SATURDAY.
He was reared on Il farm near Wi
mona, where the narrow circunstan-
ces of his father rendered it necessary
Tor him to engage in all he manual
labor OF the farm until he had almost
completed his minority. Here in
this hard toll and severe, exacting
work Of the farm, day by day, ANA
month by month, and year after year
III an humble home stlnted in all its
appointments and opportunities,
were laid, doubtless the groundwork
OF tnat distinguished success which
crowned him when SO young. Here
he acquired vigOr of body, strength
and Drawn, endurance and self-re-
lance, and capacity for boundIess
work; and what became an element
! OF great power and success, his thor
| ough appreciation Of his sterling
| worth often found in the humblest
tollers, and his broad sympathles for
| them. Having completed u currlcu-
lum in this school Of toll and poverty
"a school through which Heaven in
very Kindness often puts the choicest
spirits to make them leaders among
| men-he entered the University Of
Mississippi. The circumstances that
he came without means and without
friends to engage in four wears
course of study, looking to his own
| unaided efforts to defray such expen-
scs by such work as he could put in
IN vacations and holidays, shows the
| temper of his soul. And that he not
only accomplished this for himself.
bat at the same time furnished am
pie means to educate sister in Il
pr0tracted course of study here in
the female college, madpit plain that
an extraordinary man had appeared.
His life in college was marked by
great diligence and rapid progress; :;
sober, frugal, dutiful, social and mpr-
ry-hearted, and yet revealing great
depth CT character, he won the hearts
and praise of professors aud fellow
pupils, On leaving the University
his remarkable traits ofcharactpr and
phenomenal success commended him
70 Gov. Alcorn, by whom he was ap-
pointed Chancery Clerk, and filled
the duties with such fidelity and
thOrOughness and with such courtesy
and thoughtful consideration towards
all with whom he had to do, that inn
mediately on opening law office.
after be quit the Clerks office he
found himself full of business. Money
and friends poured IN On INN, nur
his first thought then as ever before,
and ever since, was for others, and
his early earnings We're to help his
own brothers and sisters to the cul-
fure which he we'll knew to he such
power. He rose rapidly and high.
putting his own family name, hither-
to unknown to fame, among the
highest in the profession Of law, Fl,
won fame and made money, grew
rich and eminent at a period of life
when men do not usually more than
make beginning. His fertility Of
resources and endurances of labor
were almost unlimited Whatever
work, or exposure, cold or hunger.
sacrifices or self-denial were necps-
sary to his clients was to him hi-
meat and drink.
He identified himself with his
client not merely by the professional
words "we' and Gus" but by real
community of feeling. His clients
loss, defeat or success, were his, Sue
cess was more than the fees, indeed
some of his remarkable cases were
without fees,
Quite soon after entering upon his
profession he was appointed a mem
her of the BOARD Of Trustees of the
University. and made its Secretary
So assiduously did he labor for his
beloved Alma Mater, with a devotion
so singular and absorbing that one
might have thought that 1t engaged
all his thoughts and commanded all
his labors.
His tact and judgment were such
and services so manifest that the
Trustees and Faculty united a few
years ago in glowing tribute of com
mendation to him, read on COM
mencement day. He had sympathies
and q catholic spirit. He was a
Methodist and loved well his church,
and gave largely to it Of his time and
means, but his heart was too large
and his hand too bcnefcient to be
confined within the bounds Of d sin
gle communion. Good men ofwhat-
ever church or none were his breth- |
ren, and the poor and needy, the
widow and the ophan, were in them |
selves q sacred brotherhood that
moved him to sympathy and help
fulness. So in politics, though n
Democrat of the Democrats there
were patriotism and culture and all
civic virtues and broad statesman
ship beyond its folds, and beyond the
limits of his native South,
There was nothing little or narrow
in hin--he was built on magnlh-
cent pattern. He moved in no con-
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