Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1890-06-27


In the latter year he made New
York city his residence Early i'll the
administration of President Lincoln he
was appointed minister to Venezuela.
In 1872 he thought that the time had again
come for u reconstruction of parties and he
was warm supporter of the candidacy OF
Greeley. Atterward he renewed his rela-
! tions to the republican party and i'll the
next presidential campaign, at the age OF 10,
! he took the stump for Hayes and heller.
| In 1850 lie returned to Greenwich to reside.
| He had acquired considerable property
! largely through the advance in value which
the growth of New \ DIRK city northward
had given to some real estate, which he
owned there upon 34th street and he could
afford to court tranquility. His wife died
| shortly after his return to Greenwich and
in the fall of 1882 he was a second time
married For few years he busted him
self about the affairs of the First National
bank of Greenwich of which he was made
president and about the services and inter
ess of the church of which he had long been
a member. The house in which he ended
his days is said to have been chosen
by him for his final residence because its
windows and piazza overlook the church cd
ifce where it was his delight to worship.
Several wears ago he lost the power of dis
tinct articulation and he gradually grew
helpless, until on the 18th of October, 1881,
he died at the age of Sc. Judge Culver was
a ready lawyer and a successful legal prac-
titioner, and he ably discharged all his off
cial duties. legislative. judicial, and diplo-
matte. but his fame rests upon his campaign
speeches Whether promoting the great
overturn of 1910, or attacking both Cas-
and Taylor in 1913 or advocating the cleo
ton Of Fremont, of Lincoln, of Greeley, of
HAYES, whether on the winning or the los
ing side he displayed n marvellous power
of swaying great masses of men. lie had
in its fullest development the power Of ct-
fective story telling. and wont to con-
vulse his audiences by its exercise, but in
his recital of anecdotes he was never led
away from his argument which was always
logical, animated and aggressive.
Israel Z. Dwinell, IA member of the class
of 1913, was born at Calais, Vt, October
24 1890. After his graduation from the
University he studied at Union Theological
seminary in New York city, completing his
theological course in 1913. From the time
when he began fitting for college until he
left the seminary he was at intervals en-
gagged in teaching the latter part of his school
work being i'll Tennessee. In September,
1S4S. he was married at Jonesboro, Tenn, to
~
He chose to begin lis ministerial work as a
home missionary in the West, and during
some part of 1S49 he labored at Rock Isl
and H.. which was then almost a frontier
town Returning East he was on the 92d
3 of November 1919. ordained the col
league OF the Rev DR.. Browne Emerson i'll
the pestorate of the South Congregations
church of Salem, Mass. lie continued at
: Salem for If years. At the end of that
time in 1868, the critical state of his health
/ led him to resign his pastoral
office there and to accept cal
to Sacramento, Cal. lie hoped that the
} climate of the Pacific coast would prove
!, beneficial to him. and he was not disap
, pointed. He preached at Sacramento It
5 years, during which time large and whole
some results flowed from his labors. From
1854 to the time of his death he was pro
fessor of homiletcs and pastoral theology
in the Pacific Theological seminary at Oak
} land, Cal He has been an occasional con
tributur to current THEOLOGICAL discussion
and religious thought through the medium
l of the press. The degree of doctor of divn
ity which he richly merited was conferred
e upon him by the University of Vermont il
e lSGi He died at Oakland on Saturday
1 the It'll of the present month, after an i'll
/ ness of but a few days duration. DR.
/ DWinell was genial and wholesoulel, strong
a in has convictions and earnest of purpose
+ and his influence has not ceased with hi
e death. The lasting regard i'll which hi
. memory will be held by those who hav
+ known him may be inferred from the man
8 ner in which the announcement OF his dealt
5 was received at Salem, where his forme
a church and congregation We're by the sa
Z intelligence moved to hold special serVic
i,, o,il bot mic - lai
70 undiminished affection for their pastor of
o quarter OF a century and more ago.
a John \. Jameson was a son OF Thoma
jameson a former sheriff of Orleans county
l. VT and member of the Vermont cOnstl
a tutonal convention of 1870. He was Dor
d at lrasburgh, VI, and fitted for college i
l. the neighboring town of Bloomington
d His graduation from tibet University was i
i 1916, after which he taught school for sew
= cral years at Stan stead i'll Canada. The
J. Tor two or three years he was "a tutor in tn
Is University of Vermont, during which tim
II he read law to some extent in the office {
IS Hon. Levi | Underwood AT the close OF hi
} tutorship he for time attended the Ia,
: school at Cambridge. Upon his admission t
N the bar in 1903, he went at once to Chicago
As Soon afterward he went to Freeport, Ill
)f where he rem lined for year or two. r.
llIlulIIS " CllCd5O ic ul'pi tu' otA'
d cessful practice of his profession there
1t About the time of his leaving Freeport h
o. was married to Miss Eliza Denison
IN RoyaIton, Vt. At Chicago he WI
= associated in partnership with seye
Ie al members of the Cook count
Oh bar. For about five years he was
rs partner of Hon, II. n. Hibbard of the ella
TO OF 1890 one of the present. trustees Of Il
r. University. In lo61 he vas elected judi.
Of tine Superior Court at Chicago, an oi!i'
v which he held until 1888. in 1861 the Tn
st versity of Vermont conferred upon him Il
D, degree Of doctor of laws. In this year al
n the next he occupied chair in the law ii
he partment of Chicago University. For tt
tie decade ending in 1874 he was almost CONT
ne uously one Of the editors of the America
at Law Register. One article contributed /
r. him to THIS publication is II discussion of Il
he "Competency Of Witnesses. - Another viii,
he is of interest to the general reader as well
70 to the professional student is upon 1T
he Legal Relations of Photographic He b
ne in recent years contributed to the contcn
IN of various periodicals. The June numb
ed of the Political Science Quarterly, which a