The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-01-21
PRAISE ASA
DICKINSON
The Bar Association Pays
Tributes to His Mem
ory.
EULOGISTIC RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED
Messrs. Heaney, McMaster,
Herbert, Thompson and
Queen Speak of Their
Dead Comrade.
EULOGISTIC RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED

| Bar Association paid their trfDute OF re-
| spect to the memory of Colonel Asa w.
I, Dickinson, whose death occurred recently
| at Easton, Pa. President Charles H.
Hartshorne presided. Among the lawyers
| present were:-Washington B. Williams,
/ Judge Joseph D. Bedle, Charles D.
! Thompson, John S. McMaster, Charles G.
Black, William D. Edwards, De Witt
Van Buskirk, George Meaney, James D.
/ Northrop William G. Bumsted, James Il.
! Vredenburgh, John w. Herbert, Charles
NJ. Vreeland, John Wahl Queen, Eugene
Leake. Judge Bedle, Chairman of the
/ Committee on Resolutions, presented the
| following
Descended from sturdy New England
ancestry, Colonel Asa w. Dickinson early
| in life made his mark. After success
1 full career as journalist he came to Jer-
/ sey City in 1875, and was admitted to the
bar of this State in 1880. Gradually at
1 first, but rapidly afterwards, he built up
a practice which at the time OF his
death had assumed large proportions. Al
though, owing to his modesty, he seldom
appeared in court as an advocate, he was
eminently successful in his profession
"His manly qualities, integrity. untiring
energy, genial manners and personal
! magnetism attracted the attention of all
with whom he came in contact. He was
generous and kind. Few men had more
friends or a wider acquaintance than he.
He possessed the regards of all and the
enmity of none.
Resolved, That in his death this associ-
alton has lost one of its most attractive
members; his friends a charming compan-
ion and his clients wise and faithful
counselor.
ssResolved, That this association extends
it's sincere sympathy to his widow in her
bereavement; that these resolutions be
spread in full upon the minutes of this
association and of the Circuit Court and
that an engrossed copy hereof be sent to
his widow
| The first person to speak to the motion
on the resolution was George A. Heaney,
of New York, formerly of Jersey City.
He said
I'm early life I was associated socially
and in the practice of our profession with
lColonel Dickinson. Colonel Dickinson not
j only had that deep knowledge of law
i which is necessary to success but he also
had a large amount of common sense and
an intuitive knowledge of human nature.
don't believe I ever met a man who
could grasp the real facts in a case or the
real motives behind litigation quicker than
he have no doubt that his clients will
feel his death PERSONA loss. 1 think I
voice the sentiments of all present when
1 say that he was an estimable and
| lovable man.
John S. McMaster, Colonel Dickinsons
former law partner, next spoke as follows:
Beginning life, as a member of an in-
teresting and typically illustrious New
| England family, in Amherst Mass, re-
nowned for it's beauty, culture and histori-
cal associations and going thence in ear
ly manhood to warm hearted, cosmopoli-
tan Jersey City, and thence to the Ma
tion's capitol, where centres so much of
our Nations most interesting and best,
and thence returning to Jersey CITY for
his life's last work, Asa, with an apti-
tude equal to such opportunities, seemed
to have absorbed much of the best in all
/ these places. Surely all their kindness
and tact of manner and speech became
his He appreciated the worthy man, no
matter where he came from. and so won,
1 with his unusually large acquaintance, a
host of true friends, whom he kept from
/ first to last. And all this was but little
| changed even by his last long and severe
Illness His cheer and hope remained
! with him as long as did consciousness.
His abundance of these and other good
things of life was SO marked that it an
swered not only his personal needs, but
was ever enough for the SO many others
with whom he shared them. 1t was one
of the givings that maketh him more rich
that giveth.
ITO the young man seeking a permanent
settlement in life he gave, more than is
wont to be given by most of us, helpful
words and equally helpful deeds, and
never seemed to tire of SO doing. Much
of this the world never saw. When amid
the quiet of his sweet home you had
heard him read the childhood poems of
Eugene Fields, his famous college mate,
you appreciated another side of his sweet
nature, and understood why Fields and
he were warm true friends. l wish 1
could tell you the details of how Fields
once came to tell me in Chicago of this
love of his for Asa and his people. Such
he was every day, as well in the law office
as out of it, and ever using such good
things to their full in many ways, and
not less in his law work than elsewhere.
It often enabled him to successfully do
great, as well as smaller things, as few
others could do them. The brave soldier
DrOlQeT mas ldlely ldheu HIS iiilti LII :
lough; the beloved and aged parents are
warmly nestled in the dear old nest and
tenderly cared for by the loved ones still
here; and now Asa, beloved by us all,
having peacefully fallen asleep in the
presence of those whom he rightly loved
most, continues this rest with other be-
loved ones of his own, in the unsur-
passably beautiful Gods acre at Easton.
May his future be continuation of Gods
best gift to man.
John w. Herbert, of Helmetta, former
~ of Jersey City, spoke of the early ca
reers of Colonel Dickinson. my acquaint-
ance with Colonel Dickinson began he
said '.in 1875 when he was a reporter on
the New York Tribune. 1t ripened into
friendship and we became room mates.
i We occupied the same room for seven
years. / was admitted to the bar and
! he registered in my office and studied
law, in addition to performing his repor-
torial duties Mr.. Herbert reviewed
I Colonel Diekinsons career at Washing
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