The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-01-10
PAID HIGH TRIBUTE
TO THE DEAD JURIST
BAR OF THE STATE MOURNS THE
LATE JUSTICE WANDER
BURGH'S DEATH
His Former Associates on the Bench
and at the Bar Speak FeeIingIy
of Their Dead Comrade--Memo-
rial to the Deceased.

Veteran members of the bar of the
state crowded the supreme court
chamber yesterday afternoon, at the
adjourned session Of the court, to
which the bar of the state had been
summoned to pay tribute to the mem
DRY of the late Justice Vanderburgh
There were brief addresses by
number of distinguished members of
the bar. Judges William Lochren and
Austin H. Young, who served on the
Fourth district bench with the de-
ceased, told of his service in the early
years, and Chief Justice Gilfllan, in
his remarks, recalled the time when
the Fourth judicial district, as then
constituted, comprised a large portion
of the state running from Minneapolis
to the Canadian boundary. In this
region, he said, Judge Vanderburgh
had had great influence in shaping
the traditions of the courts and bar
of the new West. The lawyers prac
ticing here were then mostly young
men, and they had been drilled under
Judge Vanderburghs service on the
bench into sound logic and habit of
careful preparation.
W. E. Hale, Justice G. E. Dickinson,
Judge J. B. Sanborn and J. NJ. Gilman
also paid brief tributes to the deceased
anu tllt lOllOWlliS .Oi iiicil liiCiiiO-
rial was presented and spread upon
the minutes of the court:
TRIBUTE IN MEMoRIAM.
The members of the bar of this state deem
it appropriate that We should present to the
court an expression of our sorrow and sense
of loss to the profession and the community
occasioned by the death of Honorable Charles
E. Vanderburgh, for many years one of the
justices OF this court. which occurred at his
home in the city of Minneapolis, March 3,
last.
After a service Of more than twenty years
upon the bench of the Fourth judicial district,
Judge Vanderburgh was in 1881 elected an
associate justice of this court, and continued
to serve in that capacity with great accepta-
bility until the beginning of 1894. 1t will
thus be seen that more than thirty years
of his vigorous manhood was spent in the
judicial office, the latter twelve of which were
in this court. This long continuance in the
public service. by repeated elections, fully
attests how his fitness for those high pro-
fessional holors was recognized by his
brethren at the bar, and by the people at
large.
Judge Vanderburgh brought to his high Of
fee wealth OF legal learning and genuine
love for the service. which made him most
able and acceptable jurist Endowed with a
keen sense of honor. and Of right he was
ever alert to see that substantial justice
should prevail. Brushing aside. therefore,
techncalties and false issues, he would seek
to grasp the real merits of the case. Fidelity
to duty and strict integrity were his marked
characteristics. no less than his uniform kind
ness and courtesy to all; he therefore COM
manded the love and confidence of all. He
was devoted Christian, sincere friend
true man.
Deeply deploring our loss, which has taken
from our profession a brother loved and
revered by us all. we contemplate with salts
faction his useful and blameless life, and re-
spectfully ask that the court permit this brief
expression of our regard for the memory of
Our honored brother to be entered upon the
record.
Justice Mitchell spoke briefly likewise in
eulogy of his late associate in accepting the
tribute of the bar.