The herald., 1895-10-29
LATE LIEUT.. GOV. WILLARD
Memorial Resolutions Adopted by the
Bar Association
A High Tribute to the Deceased as a rlan
and an ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ical Sketch

An adjourne1 meeting Of the Los An
geles Bar association was held In Judge
Van Dykes court room yesterday morn
ing to hear the report of the committee
appointed at the Saturday meeting to
draft suitable memorial resolutions on
the late Lieutenant-Governor Spencer G..
Millard. The full report of the commit
tee is as follows, and was ordered spread
on the minutes of the association:
Los Angeles. Oct. %, 1895
Your committee, appointed TO prepare
memorial resolutions on the death or
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Spencer g. Millard,
would respectfully report as follows:
Lleutenant-Governor Spencer Gurdon
Willard died on uIsday night, October
"a, 1895. Hs was born in lonia county,
Michigan, in 1858. His father, 6. );
Millard, was farmer. He graduated
from Hillsdale college, Michigan, with
highest honors in 1873, and gained quite
local reputation during his college years
as an orator carrying off all the bonors
for which he commended in inlel collegiate
debates, ard won several medals by mis-
brilliant speeches.
Upon the conclusion of his collegiate
courses Mr.. Willard accepted the position
OF principal of the high schools OF Carson
City, Mich. which position he satisfac'
torily filled for two years, during which
tlm6 ne carried on Tue STUDY III law
In 1880 Mr.. Willard entered the law
office of F. D. NJ. Davis and William 0.
Webster, and in 1888 he was admitted to
the practice of law and at once formed a
partnership with Mr.. Webster, Mr.. Davis
having retired. and was very successful
in his practice and gained considerable
prominence in the distcict attorneys
office of his native county.
In 1888 he came to Los Angeles. Cal.
where he continued the practice of the
law successfully until stricken down,
nearly year ago. by the disease to which
be finally succu.n bed, an honored and
honorable member of this bar.
In 1892 he was chairman Of the Los An
geles city Republican convention, and
IN 1894 was elected chairman of the coun-
~ Republican convention, which sent
delegates to Sacramento to the state Re
publican convention to be held there, and
on the third day of the convention Mr..
Willard was placed in nomination for
lieutenant-governor. and his nomination
was made by aCClamation; following his
nomination as ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS he en-
tered upon the political campaign and
made strong and telling canvass
throughout the state, and was elected to
the Office tor which he had been nomi-
mated by large majority, n triumph due
largely to mis- personal popularity and
power, oratory and briliancy which he
possessed and displayed.
lie was Dut 81 years n1 age at the tlUe
of his death, and leaves a vile and two
children to mourn his loss.
Mr.. MIllard was one Of Gods noble
men. Strictly honest in all his actions
toward his fellow men. he possessed and
displayed in all his relations in lie, that
lofty spirit and noble bearing which I'M
pressed upon all who came in contact
with him, that he was above littleness
in Thought or action, and that his mo-
tives we're pure and his conduct free from
suspicion.
In the forum, he was no mean antag-
onist Tor carpet knight; in the office, he
was safe counsellor, and his clients
were not left in doubt as to their course
to pursue for he had the happy faculty,
which was improved by much study, to
clearly present the rights and rem edies to
which his clients were entitled, under the
circum stances of any given case. He was
possessed OF II quick, discerning mind,
capable of grasping the essential points
OF the matter involved, and his cases
were won on the true and broad grounds
of law and equity, and never by tricks or
subterfuges. He was an honor to the
legal profession, ana he was DESTROYS that
all his professional brethren, like himself,
should maintain a high moral standard
of character and excellence.
As citizen. Mr.. Willard was always
solicitous for the public veal, whether it
related to his city, his county, his state
or ms country. lie was among the lore
most to suggest and help carry out those
public improvement ts which would do the
most good to the most people, and LETT
such work. as he came to it, with clean
hands.
He was loyal friend, answering in
his devotion to his friends, and could be
relied upon by all who were fortunate
enough to be acquainted with him and
we're worthy to be called his friends; he
was slow to make a promise, but when
the promise was made no other thought
ever entered his mind but to keep it,
and only the unavoidable kept it from
being fulfilled.
He was a faithful and devoted hus.
band, wise and instructive father, max
ing his home cheerful and pleasant bv his
very presence therein, cheering the hearts
of his children in their sorrows by his
sympathy, and making them glad by the
part he took in their pleasures, being a
perpetual delight to all within the home
circle.
In the last sad rites shown to the de-
ceased by the largest concourse of people
who ever followed mortal remains to the
tomb IN this city, was evinced the great
esteem in which ne was held by his fell
low citizens.
Therefore, Resolved, that in the death