The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1892-10-04

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entered the office of local physician in the
town Of Albion, and he took the medical books
which set before him, which were moi
very many in those days, and studied them;
but he learned more of the practice of medl-
cine by going with his preceptor Oh his dally
rounds of visits.
and lie therefore was appointed CLERK or one
of the courts which used to meet i'll Albion
three or four times year.
One day he said to his student:
Sanford, L think l can help you earn
little money, for L know you need 1t badly
enough. If you have n mind to 90 over to
the courthouse and copy records you can earn
as much as u dollar day, sometimes more,
and then you can have your evenings 10 STUDY
The young man accepted the proposition,
and with him went another young medical
records. These young men worked with
drudge-like pen during the day ana az Elsnt
thtJ studied medicine for some tWt yeas.
Thcif duties however took them freq lcatty
intJ the courtroom when the court was III
session. and day a very interesting trlal
took place which changed the course OF these
W ung mems lives, for it changed their alnDi.
lion. As they listened to the artu;nents; 20 OF
the lawyers each of them of Il sudden with
out any previous desire to do such thlng De
cded to abandon medicine and to study law
When they came out of the courtroom they
the next day they closed their medical books,
opened Blackstone and entered the office OF
local lawyer.
After a year or two these young men were
admitted to the bar and formed q partnership.
one was Sanford II. Church and the other was
Noah Davis and in a little while the young
firm We're convinced that they Old wisely when
they gave up medicine to become lawyers RS,
supreme court for the western district of New
York, and in accepting that office he was
Church. He swore in Grover Cleveland as a
member of the bar. Though they had been
bosom friends and fellow students from child
hood and had been partners for several years,
yet they differed in politics, one being y re-
publican and the other democra IT.,
sent to the legislature, where he achieved
great fame for single act. Judge Davis
became so prominent that he sent to con-
gresS and was very nearly chosen United
States senator Had 1t not been for the
euccessful candidate. Mr.. Davis would have
been elected. He afterwards became chief
justice OF the supreme court in New. York
city and only n year or two ago retired from
that office because he had reached the age DC
seventy years.
Mr.. Church gained great fame as a lawyer
and In some Of his cases he found that his
medical studies were of much service to him
clans. and in 1868, when the convention Of
the democratic party was held in New York
city, the delegates from New York state, at
the suggestion Of Samuel J. Tildcn. decided
to present Mr. Churchs name as their can
didate for the presidency They voted for
him for many ballots; and at one time it
seemed though he would surely receive the
nomination.; Other influences prevailed and
n year or two later he was elected chief justice
OF the highest court In New York state. a
court which in the opinion of many lawyers
ranks only second to the supreme court Of
the United States, In that office Judge
Church died. He used to say while chatting
with his fellow lawyers that had he stuck to
medicine he would have unqUestionahly re-
mained country doctor all his life nd 1t is
one of the interesting traditions of the New
York bar that these two young medical stu
dents LIVING in a country village, poor as
thev said as church mice, chould, by rea-
son Of change OF profession have attained
very distinguished hOnorS
II is a courteous coincidence perhaps that two
other very distinguished jurists began life as
country doctors. The late Chief Justice But
Ter. of the Connecticut supreme court, prac-
ticcd medicine in little Connecticut village
and Justice Miller, whom many lawyers re-
gard AS one Of the ablest lawyers who ever
sot upon the bench of the supreme court of
the United States had been practicing medi-
cine n ia country town In the west for ten
years before he began the study Of law.
Mrs. Mawkins Abroad.
From Judge.
Did you see Vesuvfus, Mrs. Mawkins,
when you were in Italy?"
eyes, indeed We spent n morning at the
ruins of Pompey. 1t must have been awful
when that volcano began pouring out them
ashes and saliva over things"