The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-08-24
TRIBUTE TO THE
LATE JACOB c. LANCE
BAR ASSOCIATION PASSES RES
oLUTIoNs UPON HIS DEATH.
Addresses by Judges Archibald and
Gunster, ex-Judge Ward and Many
of the Fellow Practitioners of the
Lamented Young Lawyer--Funeral
Will Take Place Tomorrow After
noon and Will Be in Charge Of
Schiller Lodge of Masons, of Which
He Was a Member.

The Lackawanna Bar association as
sembled at noon yesterday to take ac-
ton on the death of the lamented Jacob
c. Lange. Addresses eXtolling his many
and positive virtues were made by
those of his bar associates who knew
him best, and resolutions We're adopted
bespeaking the esteem in which he was
held by his fellow members of the as
ISOLATION.
Judge Gunster, who was chosen to
preside, made the formal announce
ment of Mr.. Lange's death and paid
him a beautiful tribute. Though his
career at the bar had been brief, Judge
Gunster said, he had displayed quail
tiles which marked him for a place in
the front rank of the profession.
r. A. Zimmerman, who was one of
MIR. Lang's examiners when he was ad-
mitted to the bar, said that he pos
sessed those elements so necessary to
the successful lawyer, and had he been
spared he would have been one of the
leading members of the Lackawanna
bar.
M. ]. Donahoe, who was Mr.. Lange's
classmate at the high school and chum
at Wesleyan university testified to the
u,
paid feeling tribute to his memory.
Other addresses in the same strain
were delivered by ex-Judge Ward,
Judge Archibald, George B. Davidson,
Charles e. Oliver, George L. Peck and
e c. Newcomb.
TRIBUTE OF THE BAR.
The following resolutions, read by
Mr.. Zimmerman, were adopted.
The Lackawanna Bar having learned
OF the sudden and untimely death of Ja-
cob G.. I.ange, a member thereof. in the
city of Philadelphia on the 22nd instant, in
meeting assembled for the purpose of eX-
pressing a suitable memorial upon his
death. do hereby set forth the following
record of his life and pass the following
resolutions as a fit tribute to his memory;
Jacob {. l.ange was born in the city
of Scranton in December, 1853, and grad
uated from the High School in 1881 as
| valedictorian of his class. The same year
ne entered Wesleyan university. from
| which institution he graduated with sig
nal honors in 1885, and was appointed a
teacher of mathematics and Latin in the
Scranton High School, and soon afte,
| was made principal thereof which office
| he filled with marked success and ability
until 1896, when he resigned to devote
| himself to the preparation of his chosGr
| profession, that of the law. upon which
| study he had entered as a student in 1885
ieSiSltIliB WITH w llllaHl II. Gearnart. VI
| Aug. 18th, 1897, he was admitted to tn,
| several courts of this county after pass
| Ing most brilliant examination. since
which time he has devoted himself with
! marked success and ability to the prac
| tice of the law.
During the time he was engaged II
| teaching, he was also connected with &
| number of the leading building and loar
| associations of this city as secretary, anC
| by his ability, and skill in the manage
| ment of these associations did more thar
| any other man in the city of Scranton {,
| popularizo building and loan associations
| Although his life was brief it was
| life of activity, energy and marked sue
| cess: therefore. be it
| Resolved, That the Bar of Lackawann;
| county has learned with sadness of tn,
| sudden and untimely death which ma
| come to him.
| Resolved, That the taking away of ia
| cob c. Lange has deprived this Bar of on
| of its most promising and brilliant younI
| citizen; the skill and ability which he dis
| played and the integrity which he mani
| tested marked for him one of the mos
! brilliant and useful careers in his chosel
| profession, and, had he lived, undoubtedl,
| would have become one of the leadinJ
| members of the Bar.
| Resolved, Further That these resolu
| tions be spread upon the minutes of tn
| Bar association, a copy thereof presented
to his family and printed in the local pa
| perS, and that the Bar association atten,
his funeral in a body.
r. A. ZIMMERMAN,
f. c. NEWCOMB,
A. A. VOSBURG,