The record-union., 1897-07-17
BAR ASSOCIATION MEETING.
TRIBUTES TO THE LATE N
GREENE CURTIS.
Resolutions OF Respect That the
Supreme Court VIII Be Asked
to Spread on It's Minutes.

At a recent meeting Of the Sacramento
Bar Association a committee consisting
of Judges ]. H. McKune, A. Z. Catlln
and A. c. Hinkson and w. A Anderson
and Robert T. Devlin was appointed to
draft resolutions of respect to the MEM
CRY of the late n. Greene Curtis, to be
presented before the Superior Court IN
bank at 10 o'clock yesterday morning
Judge McKune addressed the court
and stated that the labOrs assigned to
the committee had been finished and
that Judge Hinkson had been delegated
TO present the result before the associa-
tion and the court.
Judge Hinkson arose and without
further preliminaries presented the fol-
lowing resolutions of respect, which
were adopted and ordered spread upon
the minutes of the court.
THE MEMORIAL.
The Sacramento Bar Association
Gentlemen: Your committee appointed
to prepare an obituary memorial on the
death of Judge n. Greene Curtis beg
leave to report: That he was born at
Raleigh North Carolina, February >.
1896; removed to Tennessee, and came
to California in May, 1850, and was a
city for forty-seven years preceding his
death, which occurred at his residence
at the northwest corner of H and Six
teenth street on July - 1897.
He was Judge Of the Recorders Court
of this city under its charter of 1901,
during the years 1853, 1854 and 1855.
1t is difficult to refer to his character
as a man, as a Judge, as an advocate,
f1N
able and willing to act we'll his part in
adequate terms.
Only three OF the members of the bar
in this city knew and practiced before
him as a Judge. Only a few of US can
say we practiced law yith him when he
was in the full tide of his prosperity as
a lawyer, and only those of US who have
seen him before a jury pleading for the
life of a human being, which must turn
on the aye or no of those arbiters of
the fate Of his client, can fully appreci-
ate the power his appeals to the SYM
pathies, the judgment, the patriotism,
the fatherly or motherly loves or connu-
bal affections must have had.
This power went with him through
his life. He could bring it to bear on all
subjects in which he interested himself,
always guided, however, by his strong
sentiment of justice.
As a Judge he took charge of matters
pertaining to our city yet in embryo. He
found the affairs of his office without
precedents to guide him, and the path
way therein was without judicial lights
scattered along it to keep him Alright.
He established precedents for his sue
cessors, and set up lights so that they
might see their ways clearly.
AS a legislator his acts were patriotic
and enlightened. His adopted city has
had good cause to remember him, es-
pecially in his capacity as Chairman OF
the Committee of the Senate on Public
Buildings, and in connection with our
State Capitol.
AS a lawyer he was sent for far and
near, and intrusted with difficult cases.
and his successes were often phenom-
email. Some years since, he retired from
the active life in which he was so sue
cessful. and in his later years he devoted
himself to agriculture, to his social
duties to his nation, as a citizen, as a
neighbor and as a husband. For these
matters no man was better equipped.
The Masonic fraternity looked up to
him as a former Grand Master, and in
difficult problems coming before them to
solve, his judgment and his heart could
be relied on to guide them. AS citizen
he was consulted freely by those who
knew him, and his thoughts found ex-
preston in their acts. As neighbor he
was genial and warm hearted, kindly
disposed, and so beloved by all. His
years of manhood were full of good
deeds, and his memory among US shall
be always green and lovely
1t was as natural for him to die as to
be born or to live. We grieve for his
loss. and mingle our tears with those of
his family for his decease. But we
think of him as having entered another
chamber of the kings, wider, higher than
this he leaves and loveIier, lighted to
effulgence by the great presence. Death
comes to us as a blessing. We may
plead for delay, but none of us have an
absolute defense.
Judge Curtis was full of years and
ripe for the harvest, and his life was
exhaled." His term of three score
years and ten" had been fully accom-
plished. and, like a clock worn out
with eating time the wheels of his
weary life at last stood STILL
To us his life had many points for
our emulation. He had within himself
a power of self-reliance seldom equaled