The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-05-18

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speak of Mr. Holmes in the late years of
his practice, while he would speak of him
as he knew him in college, and the five
years that followed his college life. For
twenty-seven years the speaker had init
mate personal relations with Mr.. Holmes.
| When he entered Bowdoin College in the
fall of 1865 he found Mr.. Holmes sem
ior, a member of the class of 1866, a class
the records of many of whose members
in life has shown them to be men of I'M
usual character and ability, and that the
deceased was one of the leaders of that
class in college rank and social life may
well be matter of pride. From the
very first he made the reputation OF
being a young man of decided force,
ability and strength. In his literary
efforts he showed the faculty and force
of reasoning that afterwards became so
well known to the members of the Bar.
He was among the first scholars of his
class, accurate, thorough in his work
and showing withal the native wit and
humor that made him a favOrite with his
college friends. With all his ability he
never made the mistake some bright stu
dents do, of thinking they can get the re-
suits of labor without labor itself. He
was faithful, patient student. When
came to practice at this bar in 1871, said
the speaker, found Mr.. Holmes here a
very busy man in the work of the law
and we gladly renewed old friendships
and associations. For more than 10
years there were not many days that we
did not take morning walks together.
! When | think of him my memory always
dwells on those early years of his profess
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against the unrelenting progress of fa-
tai malady. They were the distinctive
years of his life, years of close applica-
ton, exacting labor, high attainment and
full promise. 1t was during those years
he won his way to the respect and admir-
| alton of the bar and bench. Those who
| knew him best saw in him the highest
traits of the lawyer. 1t is with the deep
est sadness that we think of his long
comb at with that insidious disease that
Frustrated his body and dinmed his
mental vision. Let us hope this long Or
deal had its uses which we shall know in
the great hereafter.
Franklin C. Payson, Esq, paid a feel
ing tribute to Mr.. Holmes, telling of his
social and professional relations with the
| deceased.
Daniel W. Scribner.
Charles Dunn, Jr., for General G. P.
Mattocks. offered the following resolu-
ton to Daniel W. Scribner:
The undersigned committee, appointed by the
| Cumberland Bar to present resolutions to this
| Honorable Court upon the death of Brother
! Daniel w. Scribner a member of this Bar, Feb
ruary 9, 1892, beg to submit the following reso-
| lutlonS, and ask that they may be received and
extended upon the records Of the Honorable
| Court.
ResoIced, That by the death of Brother Serb
aeF aaye n the loss OF one Tho was
whose mind was stored with great variety of
useful learning, whose clerical duties were
| faithfully and accurately performed, and whose
loyalty to the ties of friendship and the calls of
filial duty, entitled him to our most sincere adj
miration and respect
c. P. MATToCKs,)
CLARENCE HALE, ! Committee.
CHAs. DUNN, JR., }
Mr.. Dunn read the following tribute by
General Mattocks:
Daniel ". Scribner, a member of this
| bar, who died in this city on the 9th of
February last, after a brief but painful
illness, displayed in his life qualities
which should not be forgotten by those
who survive him. For period of five
years he served me faithfully and we'll as
clerk, and during that period learned
to appreciate him for qualities of mind
and heart which one less intimate with
| him might have failed to discover. Pos
sessed of a wonderful memory, and be-
ing man of untiring diligence, he was
compelled to work ON with impaired
health and to contend against misfor-
tunes and disappointments, which would
have discouraged and disheartened a
man of less perseverance and courage.
From his earliest childhood to the. day of
| ha 10 ox, J1O .oI
to hardships and disappointments, vet
amidst all his trials and sufferings, both
of body and mind, no one ever heard
him complain of his lot.
To those who befriended him in adver-
sity he was deeply grateful, and toward
those who, in his troubles, condemned
rather than comforted him, he never
evinced the slightest degree Of ill-will or
resentment. The circumstances of his
early years were not such as allowed
/ him what would be called in the Ian
| guage of the schools, liberal education
and yet such had been his diligence that
in his maturer years few men of his age
could be. found who possessed wider
range of knowledge in science, literature
OF law itself.
Serving, by necessity, in clerical ca
pacity he left with all who employed
PAOootbho ulCluOLy u OcNO-
ton and of work well done. Today
there fingers in the minds of all to whom
he rendered such service recollections
such as seldom mark the career of the
employed.
saddened by adversely, tortured by i'll
health, the results of naturally weak
constitution shattered and almost de-
stroyed by the rigors and hard
ships endured as a soldier
in the service of his country.
Brother Scribner seemed during the last
year of his life to exist only that he
might minister to the comfort and hap
piness of his widowed mother, to whom
he was devotedly attached, and who has
but recently followed him to the grave.
Only those who knew Daniel W. Scribner
intimately can appreciate his qualities of
mind and heart. To all others he was
too modest and too unassuming to dis
close those qualities which endeared
him to us who knew him as but few can
know man like him.
Mr.. Hale, in seconding the resolutions
to Mr.. Scribner, said he had never known
him except in the most casual way until
ahOut five wears 400 From that time