The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1896-11-14
BAR ASSOCIATION MEETING
Resolutions of Respect for the
Memory OF w. T. Hartley.
CREATIONS 81 MESSRS. HUGHES AND
BUTLER

Derlor court rooms. President Thomas
f. LYONS called the meeting TO order.
There were about forty of the LAWYERS
cf the city present. Col. Carl (. Pope,
from the committee appointed to draft
suitable resolutions of respect and love
for the memory of W. T. Hartley, who
died here October 10Th, 1896, read the
following:
MAY it please the Court:
In obedience TO the directions OF the bar
of Douglas county. your committee appointed
FOR that purpose herewith presents the fol-
lowing memorial Of the life OF our deceased
brother. ". r Hartley. who died a member
Of this court and bar on the Goth day Of Oc-
tober, 1896:
W. T. Hartley was born in Niagara county.
New York, on the 9th day of November, Is5,,
! and at The age Of - removed to Cedar county.
Iowa. He was student of the Spring Dale
| seminary and OF the Law Department of the
| Iowa State University. He began the prac-
tice Of law in Mankato county, Iowa, in
1874. and in lS.s he removed to Worth county.
/ Iowa. where he became a law psrtucr with
| Mr.. Pickering. ana continued to practice
law At that place until the removal of the
firm to superior in the spring of 1891 when
| he became a Member OF this bar and until
the time OF his death was a successful. hon
Orcd, able and esteemed member Of his pro
fcsSion.
! He left surviving him a beloved wife and
two sons still in their minority. Mr.. Hartley
was of Quaker parenta=c and for many years
! had been a leading member OF the Methodist
| Episcopal church and an active Sunday
! school worker. As to his personal character,
| he was honest. industrious, and pcrscvcring.
| He possessed good sense. sound judgment.
and was good lawyer and but few members
Of his profession possessed moral or private
! character as free from stain and blemish as
his. He made it the rule Of his life to do
what he believed to be right and he had the
courage to maintain and act upon his convic-
tions OF right at all time and under all cir
I cumstanccS. He was plain man of every
day affairs and while he was ambitions, sue
ccssful and progressive he manifested no
| taste for Ostcmtation or display. Death
( served on him its last summons. calling him
. hence while ne was yet in the prime OF life.
/ For few months prior to the middle of Sep
TENDER lastlhiS usual good health was inter
| rupted by physical inarmity, the cause Of
! which he Gid not understand, but in Scptcm-
| Der the grave and fatal character Of his in
trinity became fully known to him and he
! knew and realized then that his days we're
well nigh numbered. He then put hi. bust
| ness affairs in order and waited with chris
tian fOrtitudc and resignation his fast APP
| preaching end. and while the rIva-cs OF his
! disease wasted his physical powers and lac
| could feel himself dying by inches his mind
remained clear and unimpaircd until the
very moment OF his final dissolution.
His life abounded richly in those cstimable
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| loves to recall and cherish. No one can con-
| slderately reflect upon the life and char
actcr Of our diseased brother without feeling
that in his death the community has lost n
noble and useful citizen. and this court and
the bar a most worthy and esteemed member,
and while his bcrcayed family and friends
do most deeply feel their great loss may
! they find rich and continuous consolation in
the fact that his real life was like unto the
pure gold from which only the dross has
! been separated by the ordeal OF death, that
! it is incorruptiblc and viii abide forever.
To the end that this memorial may be pre-
served as a recognition of our respect and
esteem Tor the memory of our deceased
brother, if it so please the court and bar.
may it be received and spread upon the
records of this court.
Is. RULER
Gil. HUGHES,
&C. POPE.
These resolutions before the associa-
ton, L. s. Butler and c. II. Hughes,
both of whom had known the deceased
for number of years, delivered ora
tons in which Mr.. HartIev's good
qualities were shown up i'll strong
light.
Mr.. Hughes said that he and Mr..
Hartley mad many strange condolences
in their lives. Mr.. Hughes was born in
Iowa and Mr.. Hartley came there when
he was mere child. Both of them at
tended the Iowa University and Mr..
| Hughes graduated from its law depart
ment one year after Mr. Hartley They
practised law in two adjoining counties
of the state of Iowa and met frequently
in the courts. Mr.. Hughes came to this
city one year before Mr. Hartley
After dwelling on this striking resem-
blance between their two lives, Mr..
Hughes paid a glowing tribute to the
many sterling qualities of mind ana
heart possessed by Mr.. Hartley. His
personal habits he declared were with
out a flaw and perfect
L. 5. Butler, who had also known the
deceased for number of years, de-
livered the following eloquent Grafton:
May it please the court:
! l have known our departed brother
from childhood. | did not know him
well during bis youth, but l knew in a
general way the sterling worth of the
sturdy stock from which he sprang,
But for eighteen years last past We
have been members OF the same bar
and for twelve or thirteen years Of that
time have known him intimately and
well, not in the sense Of a close friend,
but with that familiarity which comes
from an active, constant and intense
rivalry and competition in business and
public affairs and which discerns more
quickly and magnites more greatly the
minor faults, wherever they exist.
1t was my fortune to meet him in the
lawyers forum more often than any
other lawyer in the past and more often
than expect to meet any other in the
future; and as l see 1t now, it was not as
felt it then, an iIlfortune, for the dis
cipIine that comes TO a lawyer from
contests with man with such dauntless
courage and supreme fearlessness, such
unyielding tenacity and devotion to a
clients cause, brings out the oest there
is in him if he has any ambition for sue
cess.
In candor, perhaps l should admit
that the relations to which l have re-
ferred have not discovered tc me in
, their fulness all the virtues of his
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