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MORRISON B. WAITE.
sick room. Shortly after 6 o'clock this
little easier. I think I will go to Sleep"
and turned over in his bed. In q few mo-
ments he was dead. The nurse could not
suffering. The chief justice literally fell
could not realize the terrible blow that had
come upon them. Mics Waite is completely
Frustrated.
Associate Justice Miller, the senior member
of the court, sent invitations to his fellow
members to meet him at the consultation
room of the court, where they all assembled
at II o'clock. The attorney general and
leading members of the bar were present.
The chair Of the chief justice was simply
draped in Grape but in no other respect did
the appearance of the chamber give any in
dication of the mournful nature of the occa-
sion. When the court and the ~assemblage
were seated, Justice Miller, in a low, broken
voice, said:
1t ia my painful duty to announce to the
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tioe departed this life this morning at $50
o'clock. This Is not the occasion to make
any extended observations on the subject,
which will be done in due time. The court
will adjourn until IL O'Clock on Monday,
April 2.
The senate and house both adjourned
as the death was formally announced.
THE DISTINGUISHED DEAD.
Morrison Remick Waite received his ap-
pointment as chief justice Jan. 2l, 1874,
and was the successor Of Chief Justice Chase.
He was the seventh in the line of dis
tlnguished jurists who have held the Office.
In the rural town Of Lyme, Conn, the old
house in which he was born, Nov. 20, 1916,
still stands. At the age OF seventeen he en-
tered Yale college, from which he graduated
in 1887 in the class which included William
NJ. Evarts, Edward F~ierrepont, Prof. Benja-
min Silliman and other distinguished men.
He began the study of law with his father in
Lyme and concluded his preparation for thu
bar In the office Of Samuel l. Young, then a
prominent 1aweriu Maumee City, Ohio. He
formed a partnership with MI. Young shortly
after being admitted in 1889, and the year
after he took as his life partner a young lady
of his native town. He was elected
to the Ohio legislature in 1S49.
and the following year the firm of
Young g. Waite removed to Toledo, Ohio,
where they built up a very large and remu-
nerative practice. A younger brother of Mr..
Waite was admitted to the firm soon after,
and the partnership continued up to his ap-
potntment to the chief justiceship. MIR.
Waite was a Wing until that party disbanded,
when he Joined the Republican party. He
reluctantly became candidate for congress
in 1862, and later was the nominee of the
administration party" but his canvasses
were unsuccessful. Other nominations and
various appointments were rendered him
from time to time, all of which he refused
to accept The first position in which his
ability attracted the attention OF the whole
country was that Of counsel for the United
States in the tribunal of arbitration which
met at Geneva in 1912. He was associ-
ated in this delicate negotiation with Caleb
Cushing and William NJ Evarts. His tact
and good Judgment largely served to termi-
nate the difficulty arising out of our civil
war between the United States and the
United Kingdom. The year after his return.
in 1872, he presided over the constitutional
convention of Ohio.
PERSONAL APPEARANCE.
Though the chief justice was in his SOW
enty-second year, one who had met him in
VIC St1COu tCu 1CCCAGky "OuN4 AdVo VOu-
tured the prediction that he would live
many years yet to grace the bench. He was
OF medium height, with broad shoulders and
sturdy figure. Everything about his appear
nee indicated o splendid physique. He
stood straight and was dignIfied in carriage.
His large head was crowned with q thin
growth of iron gray hair. His forehead was
broad and full, the eyebrows dark and
heavy. The mouth and nose were large md
full OF character. He wore a beard about
his face, but his upper lip was clean shaven.
His figure was a familiar one on the streets,
as he almost invariably walked to and from
his house n tho supreme court cham
Der in the capitol. In the summer of
1883. Chief Justice Waite was n
Of the party with President Arthur, Gen.
went 'on a trip through Yellowstone Park.
On that trip he met with an accident that
caused considerable alarm at the time.
While en- route from the Mammoth Hot
Springs to the falls the chief Justices saddle
slipped from under him and he had q bad
effects Of his tumble, but after riding two or
three days he was obliged to stop, and the
surgeons who accompanied his party made
an examination which ELECTED from them
the opiaion that the chief Justice had suf-
fered Q slight fracture OF the ninth and tenth
ribs The chief justice was obliged to
abandon his trip and return East, Co.
ing TO his old hone at Lyme, Conn,
he soon recovered from the effects Of his
accident The Waite family is one OF the
of arms granted to 1t bears the date Of 1912.
Thomas Waite, who was q member Of parlia-
ment, signed the death warrant Of Charles
IL, and the family moved to this country
soon after the Restoration. 1t was about
thirty.years after the landing Of the Pilgrims
and this mans son was one of the first presi-
dental ~electore after the War of the Revo-