Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-05-11
no rnE ROWE.

hHNANHt tNN"'N AH'tAN"nN |NNNANTHa
Judge Edward lIoyenkanp, who died
on Sunday, was buried al BIrdville yes
terday aftcrnbon. District court ad. |
iourned outyof respect 10 the occasion
and the local bar was largely represented /
at the funeral. The following obituary
sketch OF the deceased comes from an old |
friend and former partnerof the deceased |
Edward Hovenkamp was born on the /
Both day OF June, 1924, at Newark, N. j..
and hence at his next birthday would |
have been sixty-two years OF age. II the
writer mistakes not, he comes Of the Van
Ransellear family OF New YORK, family |
that has been Identified with that state |
from Its earliest traditions. AT the early |
age OF fifteen years he migrated from the |
family Homestead westward aud settled |
in the state OF Kentucky. There he read |
law, and practlccd but short while his |
profession I'LL his removal with his good
wife, who yet survives him, and settled at
his present home In the year 1854. Here,
without change IN locality, following
the steady characteristics OF his German
ancestry, he has ever since lived, and to-
day he died aud left void in his com
munity that will DO felt for years TO come.
| He was ever foremost In the representa-
tions Of the need of his community, when
ever and wherever II was necessary TO
their welfare, whether In the commission
ers' court, TO see that the proper roads
and bridges were constructed for his peo-
pie, or before the school authorities, 10 see
that school-houses were provided for the
young, and Birdyllle to-day enjoys the
benefit Of one OF the very best school
buildings outside OF Fort Worth, by the
efforts OF its large-hearted and liberal
citizens, headed by Edward IIovenkamp.
The writer had heard OF hts Illness foI
several days but never till one day last
week did he deem IL necessary ~ visit
him, when he found him suffering with an
internal malady involving the vital func-
lions. He lutimated TO the writer the
probability that his days Of earthly pill
| grlmagc were nearing their close, and
said he ~ have been considered some
, what ultra as temperance reformcr, but
, | loved my family, and their welfare was
/ supreme TO men replied that his In
I iiaence in his community had been for
4 good all the time and that II he
4 had made no other record than
4 the fact that the four out OF
1 tho five boys that were born to him (the
& youngest, Harvey G., Is. not yet twelve
!, years old. had been reared TO manhood
n and were exemplars OF temperance and
/. morality alone amply repaid him for his
o good work in that direction. His eyes
q filled with the moisture OF suppressed
4 emotion TO realize the fact that other:
appreciated this silent work Of this calm
/. steady, transformations man, who moved
4 slowly but steadily on for years In {
n straight line Of morality, steld and true
!. and with all the Dutch courage Of his an
cestors.
- lie was for years and years consist
!, ent member OF the Christian church, Hi
y relations with his family circle were o
n the tenderest aud most afectlonoto ma
"a ture. He ruled by kindness, and hi
\. children were moved by the deep ant
!, abiding interest ever made manifest 70
them by their father. His partnership
= in the law were, as far as the writer re
in members, before the war; with Hon
~ Jack Ball OF Weatheriord; immediately
is after. Good (lIon. j. j. Good, formerl
w of Dallas but now deceaSed) Bowe
~ dion. Ed Bower, now county Judge O
Dallas), and the writer from 1881 TO 1884
ar when the firm OF Hovenkamp, Holland
NJ Blair succeeded aud existed till q shor
~ while ago, when Mr.. Blair retired an,
n. left the Grm, being succeeded by L. .
4. Hoyenkamp, his son.
! He did not die unaware OF the al
y proach OF the leveler Of q
- things earthly One day last fall ii
y, writer was riding in this city with hi
no on some business of past transaction
"a when he said that he felt presentlmei
~ that one OF these days before long III
roll call at the bar In the court-hous
a. would ind him missing. And thus
=, has lived and died at the ripe age OF thrt
"a "a score years, and approaching on to u
a. ten, Edward Hovenkamp, man wb
wv made no pretensions TO influence In VI
10 community, yet was all In all one of II
q, most influential In IT,. A man who nev'
,s sought distinction IN the way OF Ollie
a ~, holding among his fellows, except inif
"a single instance during the last years
ao the war, when he was district attorney
wv the district embracing several countl'
~ around aud including this CCdrran
va county. Yet man whom every olhc
Nv Nv seeker could not afford to Ignore In tint
~ =, when personal qualifications and NOR
~ fitness were the tests, as has been Tor u
W. past fifteen years In this country.
ny G. G. CUMMINGS.
~, Fort Worth, May 10.