The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1889-02-12

At meeting of the Supreme Courr Bar h.u
in Tallahassee Wednesday, Hon David
Walker acting as chairman and Mr.. D. Wa
son as Secretary, committee consisting Of 4,
torney General W. B. Lamar, Judge K. Fn
ter, Hon. RW. Davis and Col. j. c. Cooper Wa.
appointed 10 prepare resolutions on the death n
late Associate Justice r. B. Van Vaikenbur,,
Colonel j. J. Daniel and L. l. Fleming.
Thursday the committee reported the sub;d,.
ed resolutions. Eloquent and appropriate ID.
dresses were made by Judge E. K. Foster COh
mel j. G. Cooper, Major A. st. Clair Abrsu,
Judge D. S. Walker, Mr. Grant. Judge J.
Melbourne and Hon. Charles Swayne. Chit
Justice George .Raney responded for the Cous
in an eloquent address. Ii was then order3
that the resolutions be spread upon sepanh
pages of the Courts record, and that copies h
sent TO the families Of the honored dead. Ths
resolutions are as follows:
Robert B. Van Valkenburgh, an honored A.
sociate Justice of this Court, died August |. 1888
During his somewhat eventiul life, which wm
largely spent in the service OF his country be oc
cupied many positions of honor and trust all Of
which he filled with the utmost fidelity and most
scrupulOus honesty. Before coming TO this State
he had been in Congress from New York, had been
a Brgadier General III the Federal army during the
late civil war, and had represented ais country Is
Minister to japan.
During tie time Of the occupancy by him Of
these high Offices he preserved for himself an NJ
sulled record and his good name came with him &
Florida. Here, in 1874, he appointed Associzh
Justice of the Supreme Court, and he held biz
place on this bench until the day OF his death. RQ
fourteen years he sat ut the lett hand the Chief
Justice, and bis familiar form and kindly face viii
lone live in the minds of the members of the
who went in and ost Of the court room curing
those years. Judge Van Valkenburgh was a
of high degree OF intelligence and Of genial ~
ture and kindly heart. He lad no enemies, but
many friends, and TO the end that some slightE
preston of sorrow ut his death may find
place in the records of This court, be it
Resolved first, That in the death Of AssociateJat
tice Robs ri b. Van Valkenbnrgh, an honest Judge
scholarly gentleman, aft .ble man and genial con
p~niun has been lost to US, and faithful puslk
ee-vant has been laid to rest. AS q court and bar
We mourn his loss, and shall ever remember Bin
many virtues.
Resolved, second, That we request that copyd
these resolutions be spread upon a separate paged
the'records of this court, and copy furnishedt
the family of the honored deceased also the foov.
ing:
WHEREAS, Death has taken from their places iw
of the best known and most illustrious membend
the bar of the Supreme Court of the State OF To
rda, Louis l. Fleming and James j. Daniel wh
died during the recent epidemic OF Jacksonville
Fla; therefore, be it
RESOLVED, That in the deaths Of Louis |. Fleming
and James j. Daniel, this bar has lost two membeH
whose high characters and legal learning had maG
their impress for many years upon the proceedm4
of this court and the business and ASSOCIATIONS q
this bar, to the aid of the court in its laborS Al
the sustaining of the bar in its dgnHg
and character; that in the deaths
these two distinguished gentlemen, WHO'S
names and lives have SO long been linked togethd
in professional and personal service TO their fellow
men, both the State and community in which I0g
lived have been bereft of two of their wisest cosf
sellers, purest citizens and most unselhshy o.
voted servants that their names were the syne
nyms of truth aud honor, and their lives have eA
US rich heritage in their examples of duty con
scientously performed, and obligations, pu0m
and private, unswervingly fulfilled; hat dying =
they did-that the sick might be cared for and W
poor be fed-we should make lasting record y
their deeds and of our high regard for them an
their life's work
While we thus express what the deceased was
this bar, we turn with deep and tender sympstay"
the families of our departed professional bretnies
and, recognizing their bereavemen's as so maej
greater than ours the dead ones were nearer ~.
closer bound to them, offer them the tlue
consolation that one human can to another ID DE
that those they have lost honor ana
blessing to their professions and to their Stale =,
Rssotved, That the Court be requested to on ~
these resolutions spread upon the minutes Oh -.
court, and tlat engrOssed copies of the same -
sent by the Clerk OF this court the families Oh "
deceased.