New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-03-28

| MORRISON R. WAITE.
! A professional nurse was in charge of the
sick room. Shortly after 6 o'clock this
morning the chief justice said: sI feel a
little easier think I will go to Sleep"
and turned over in his bed. In few mo-
| ments he was dead The nurse could not
realize the fact There was no struggle no
| suffering. The chief justice literally fell
asleep. The two members of the family
could not realize the terrible blow that had
come upon them. Miss 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 IL 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 is my painful duty to announce to the
bar OF this court that its hOnored chief JUS
tice 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 - o'clock on Monday
April O. IL
The senate and house both adjourned
the death was formally announced.
THE DISTINGUISHED DEAD.
Morrison Remick Waite received his APP
pontment as chief justice Jan. 21, 1874,
and was the successor OF Chief Justice Chase
H. l,,,o Is
tingushed jursts who have held the Office
In the rural town OF Lyme, Conn, the old
house in which he was born, Nov 80 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 Pierrepont, Prot Benja-
min Siliman and other distinguished men,
He began 6he study of law with his father in
Lyme and concluded his preparation for the
bar in the Office OF Samuel L. Young, then a
prominent lawer in Maumee City, Ohio He
! formed a partnership with Mr. Young shortly
| after being admitted in 1889, and the year
after he took as his life partner a young lady
OF bis native town. He was elected
to the Ohio legislature in lS49,
Young & Waite removed to Toledo, Ohio,
WAC1C tllCy Dulit ~ very ldISc anu Ioilu-
nerative practice. younger brother of Mr.
Waite was admitted to the firm soon after,
and the partnership continued up to his ap-
pointment to the chief iusticeship Mr..
Waite was 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 tune, 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
| Gushing and William M Evar5s His tact
I 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 sew
| enty-secOnd year, one who had met him in
| the street even recently would have ven
| 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
| ance Indicated splendid physique. He
| stood stralghtand was dignlfied in carriage
His large head was crowned with thin
| growth of iron gray hair His forehead was
| broad and full, the eyebrows dark and
| heavy. The mouth and nose were large and
| full of character. He wore beard about
bis face, but his upper lip was clean shaven.
| His figure was familiar one on the streets,
as he almost Invariably walked to and from
| his house and the supreme court cham
| Der in the capitol In the summer of
| 1883, Chief Justice Waite was one
| of the party with President Arthur, Gen
Sherman, Gen Sheridan and others who
| went on 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 iustice's saddle
slipped from under him and he had a bad
| fall. AT first he felt but little pain from the
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 opinion that the chief Justice had SUI
/ fered slight fracture of the ninth and tenth
| ribs. The chief Justice was obliged to
abandon his trip and return East. Go
ing to his old home at Lyme, Conn.
/ he soon recovered from the effects of his
accident. The Waite family is one of the
/ oldest families in the country and the coat
/ Of arms granted to it bears the date of 1912.
| Thomas Waite, who was a 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
i that Thomas Waite settled in Connecticut
/ and this mans son was one of the first presi-
| Dental electore after the War of the Reyo-