The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1898-07-23
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Judge Henry NJ. Ramey.

1t Is due to the democratic voters
who are to pass upon the claims o
Judge Ramey as = candidate for judge
of the supreme court of Missouri, tC
say a word as to the personal history
of this eminent lawyer. A friend OF
the lNTELLIGENCER furnishes us the
following interesting information in
regard to Judge Ramey;
Judge Henry NJ. Rqmey was born in
the state OF Mississippi, on February
II, 1874. In 1861, al the age of seven
teen, he volunteered into the cOnfed-
crate army, served through the entire
war, and vas surrendered by General
Joseph Z, Johnston, at Greensboro,
North Carolina. While storming the
federal breastworks, IN the deadly
charge at Franklin, Tenn, he was
severely wounded by a shot through
his shoulder.
After the war closed he returned to
his home in Mississippi, which he
found desolate and in ~ruins-every-
thing SWEEP away by the iron hand of
war, and hil aged parents and eve
helpless sisters without the Q of
support. But that indomitable nerve
and resolution which carried him into
and through the war, never forsook
him at this trying time. With an
energy quickened by the ruin he saw
about him, and the m~isfortunes of
those he loved, he rebuilt the home
and supported, as best he could, his
gray haired parents and dependent
sisters.
In 1868 he came to Missouri and
found employment IN St. Joseph.
%devotlng all leisure hours, night and
day, to the study of law. In 1870 he
was admitted TO the bar, and began a
career of successful practice in state
and federal courts second to no lawyer
in Missouri.
The generous people of Northwest
Missouri, among whom he lived and
practiced, gave him such u large
clientage as removed all doubt as to
the future comfortable support Of those
whom the fortune Of war threw upon
his resources.
In 1876 he was elected prosecuting
attorney Of Buchanan county, which
position he filed for four years, and
then declined another term, but re-
turned TO his profession, and his prac.
tice o extended all over the North.
west.
In 1889 he was placed upon the
bench as one of the judges of the Sixth
judicial circuit, which position he
filled for eight years, with great credit
to himself, satisfaction to his people.
and the merited pride of bis legal
associates. He declined, at the cx-
piralion of eight years, to serve longer
as circuit Judge.
Ills life presents to the youth of our
country the worthy example OF a self
made man. Coming out of the war A
mere boy, with no fortune but his
brains, no profession, no trade, and no
friend but his energy, with his fathers
helpless and war-impoyerished family
TO support-yet, by dInt of his own
labor, siudiOus perseverance and
honesty, coupled with a whole-souled,
lovlal nature and popular disposition,
he overcame all obstacles and reached
a niche in the temple of legal fame.
and a standing a a man among men
worthy Of the highest emulation. Such
conduct speaks to the best impulses of
the human heart.
No man car be great in any profess
sion, much less in that of the law.
without q soul of benevolence and
truth. The affections Of the heart have
SC much to do in sustaining right and
opposing wrong, that if these be
depraved nothing great can exist.
Judge Ramey wears the collar Of no
man, and no combination Of men, cor
porate or political.
In his life we have the realization Of
a picture drawn by an eminent law
writer, who says: "Were | to depict
the making a mar a lawyer, | would
represent one clambering up u preci-
plce, and Poverty, like an ola and
ugly witch, with a fail, urging from
below"