Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-05-14
EDWARD HoyEvKAmp.
RESOLUTIONS Adopted bs the mar az r.
rant County.

"WAMb hVfkNkAMR.
"sr"iauchs Adopted br tho mar af Tar.
rant County.
The following Ia the report ~ tho co,o-
,n,.tee OF the bar on the death OF Judge
nuWaru hovenkamp, which was adopted
ana ordered spread upon the mlnntes al
REPORT or rHK COMMITTEE.
nm CHAIRMAN AND BRornRR MEM.
n nnhs " ihk BARI On the banks OF the
, nasSac riserin The city Of Newark, in The
ii.,le state OF New Jersey, away of on the
n ~ coast, our deceased brother,
ruwarn liovenkamp, was bcrn--and had
ny nvsu WI his next birthday, on the
pVtn OF next month, he would haye Al.
salueu tne ripe age OF sixty.two years.
re llrst saw the light near the historic
battle-ilelds OF our parental revolntlrn
fought In that state--Trenton, Monmouth
Red Bank, Princeton and Milestone IL
was OF German descent, and his ancestors
came over about the time that William
Penn, driven from England by RELIGIONS
persecution, stopping awhile in Holland
among his Quaker brethren, had oeded
to him by the crown the state OF New
Jersey as well as Pennsylvania. And
though he was not of that faith. vet. from
near associations ia his youth, be partook
In his nature of many OF their calm. philo-
sophical habits, 40 essential TO a we'll
grounded character.
| He was the oldest practlclne attorney
at our bar, both In age aud resldence.
having settled at Brdyille, the former
county seat, In the year 1854 There.
following the staid and steady axcdness
OF his ancestry, he has remained on his
farm In one place TIL his death, with the
exception OF an interval OF year or moro
before the war, when he resided for n
time In Parker county, at Weatherfoul.
lie was Of Old Line Wing lineage in
politics, and that, together with the
natural conservatism OF his temperament,
put him wlthoutthe pale OF the sympathies
oil his nelghbors In the time OF our great
civil war, that ended so disastrously TO
It's projectors. But this never inter.
! rupted his warm personal attachments TO
those OF different political faith
To the maturity OF his years was allied
agrayity Of demeanor, sobriety OF charac.
ter and most excellent Judgment, which
well-used time always brings to the pru-
dent and thoughtful,
| Never distinguished for deep and con-
tinued research into the intrlcacies and
mysteries Of the legal lore OF the modern
commercial lawyer, still when we com.
pare his success with the average prac.
tltloner, he could sum up re,
suits beyond the average in ma.
terial prosperity, and, after all,
this seems to be the American test OF
ability. For instance, when he began his
| present handsome, vlne-embowercd two
story residence, at Blrdville, six years
ago, he had not the means on hand to
pay for IL, but as the structure went up
through the summer by easy stages, the
cash balance from bis professional re-
ceipts was forthcoming at It's completion.
His well-ordered farm with all liz con.
yeniences was the stake that backed this
venture.
He would say, "Beware the man with
one book" meaning the book OF nature,
and his hand was ever turned 10 the page
OF human motive, the handspring OF hui
man action.
at the early age Of fifteen, after a short
term of schooling In the city OF New York,
near the home Of his maternal lineage, the
Van Winklers, an old established family
Of that state, he followed the manifest
destiny Of our race In bending his steps
westward towards the Pacific coast. lie
stopped a while at Maysyllle, Mason
county, the state OF Kentucky, aud there
did that which Is so eo-eyistent with the
experience OF nearly all beginners In the
law--he taught school. Having reat
law under Harrison Taylor, 1
prominent attorney OF that bar
and after obtaining license Il
practice, he married Miss Belle Arthur o.
that county, and turned his face south
westward to Texas, accompanied by the
Hon. A. j. Ball, now OF Weatherford, his
first law partner, They landed ut Indian
ola, and Gov. John ! Gland was among
their first acquaintance In this state
His advanced foresight sought out thu
great prairles OF Northwest Texas This
was In the year S6l, when the first I'm
pulse was given to the settlement of thit
portion Of the state. His good wife still
survives him--she Is of Celtic origin, the
same name and race that claims presi
dent OF this republic. Their long alliance
in the tenderest and most harmonious re
lations are present examples TO our moth
er country that Ireland can be given home
rule, and still be happy and contented
! and that the Celt and the Saxon are O
the common brotherhood of man Whlh
MS JulCH OUbIlHhCy Woulu not OIOoh any
thing like compulsion, yet when you ap
pealed TO his sympathies, he would readi
ly and heartily respond every time. III
was ultra in nothing, save In the matte
Of temperance reform. His love for hi
family first, and for his fellow man next
found him ten years ago signing Tn
frst local-optIon petition In this coun
!. ty. His death leaves all eight OF tn
preclncts--saye the one at the count,
I seat, with this law In force. He cast III
very 1rst temperance vote ever polled Il
Tarrant county. There were only tw'
: votes at this election, Uncle Bobbi
Cross, still living, cast the other But b
was never obstrusiye in his zeal, he neye
button-holed on the street corners 10 co
force his views. He taught mainly b
example, and seldom by precept, unlcs
by delicate suggestions OF parallel case
TO reach the senses without offendinI
the sensibllities His last appearances a
the bar was in defense Of the helpless
and the few words that he spoke (for b
had the virtue Of breyity) In an honest
} earnest summing up TO the jury, not onl
I ,,s.,. hItn a pardfpf but p1irttpd thgi