Tombstone epitaph., 1892-02-14
The Late Judge Berry.

city last evening al about half past seven o'clock. He had been resident of this city for the past eleven years. Judge Berry was born in Brownsville, | Penn, December lIth 1926, and was at the time of his death sixty six years old At the age oi eleven years he moved with his parents to the then new state of Illinois, where he resided until the breaking out of the Mexi all War. lie at the age of nineteen vol unleered his services to his country, and joined Colonel Harding and entered the Mexican war with the tirsL regiment of U. 5. Volunteers and siterward took part in the siege, anu assault and capture oi Monterey, anu also in the capture of salnllO, aho was engaged in the bloody field ol Buena Vista, where Colonel Harding and nearly all of his resimental off, cers were killed. Returning after the seige of the war to his Illinois home, he remained until the gold excitement in California in lS4y, when among hundreds of others he let his home and early associations and started for the new Eldorada; he arrived at Shreveport Louisiana, and there out fitted with hIs five companions and started across the plains Of Texas and through Mexico and over the old bat tleiieids of Monterey, and finally land ed at Mazatlan on the Gulf Of Calii- ornis, and from thence he went in an old French brig to the bay of San Francisco, where he arrived in the fall of lS49, having been seven months in making the trip from Illinois. Up on arrival in California, he journeyed to the gold fields but soon returned to l Oroville where he entered the law office of General F. H. Harris, where he studied law and. was finally admit ted to the bar and shortly afterward | catered into cepartnership with his preceptor, the firm being Harris X | Berry. He renamed in Oroville and
 Sacramento practicing his chosen profession until 1862, when the out break Of the great. Washoe excitement carried him to Nevada, where he also practiced his profession until he was elected Judge of the District Court oi | that state for the Humboldt district | he remained on the bench eight years having been reelected to the office In Nevada he engaged extensively in
 mining and aided materially in deyel- oping tine gr-at mineral wealth of tha;
 state and where he remained until 1880, when he came to Arizona and
 settled in Tombstone. He was al-
 ways stauncn democrat in politics having been a delegate to the conven-
 ton of 1862 in New York when he 1 advocated the nomination of Salmon
 P. Chase, for president. He always preferred to serve his eparty in the
 ranks than in office. Iu 1872 he att tended the Baltimore convention and
 strongly advocated the candidacy oi
 Horace Greedy for presidency; he also
 attended the St. Louis convention of
 1888 and advocated the nomination
 of Cleveland. He has been the chair
 man of nearly every Democratic
 county convention of this county since
 its organization, and in such position
 be did much toward the selection oI
 proper officers and his efforts were in
 valuable to his party and bis country in securing wise and economic legis-
 la,ion. He was taken sick in tine
 the month of January year age and
 has been confined to his residence
 nearly ever since, during all of which
 time he has been cared for by his | devoted wife.
 The soldiers of the Mexican War, | that oand of heroes, are fast fading ] away the few that are left among us
 Col. Mike Gray, James McDerrnott | General D. K. Wardwell and William
 Plaster, are alone as such veterans to
 mourn tine loss of as brave com- rade.
 Judge Berry's host of friends all over the coast will be pained to learn of his demise.
 The death Of Judge Berry will be a sad blow to his aged mother who re- | sides in Nashville III. She has reach-