The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-04-11
This Noted Jurist Passed Away in
Washington Sunday.
HIS FUNERAL NEXT THURSDAY,
The Place OF Intcrment Not Yet Dc
cidcd On-Justicc Field was One
ofFour Distinguished Brothers.
Long in Public Life,

| AT the Epiphany church In TINS CITY, az
1880 o'clock Thursday morning. Inc
members Of the Supreme Court will be
honorary pall-bearers. Bishop Saterlee'
| OF the Washington Diocese. with Dr. Nc
Kim, rector OF Epiphany, Will oflclate.
The body will be then placed in vault
| In fock Creek cemetery here until the
place OF interment is settled upon
| The Supreme Court to-day ADJOURNED
| out of respect TO Justice Fled 5 memory.
| Justice Stephen j. Field, Of the u. 5. Su-
| prcmc COurt retired. dIeu at ms home
| on Capital Hill in this city at $50 o clock
| Sunday evening OF kidney complications.
| About his bedside were MS vile and her
sister, Mrs. j. Condit Smith; Justice
! David J. Brewer, his nephew; Mrs. I'd
| gerton, of California; Mr.. Linton, his
| private secretary; Rev. Edward NJ. Mole
| rector OF the Church OF the Advent, anu
| the family servants. He had been UNI
| conscious since Saturday morning, ana
| death came rainlessly.
1t is probable that the remains
! will. be taken to StockOridge,
Mass, where are buried his father and
| mother and his brothers Cyrus, Dudley
and Jonathan. two sisters and other
members Of the Field family. Justice
! ana Mrs. Field never had any children,
and the only surviving member Of his
fathers family is the Justices youngest
brother. Dr. Henry Field editor Of the
| Evangelist.
JUSTICE FIELDS CAREER.
stephen Johnson Field was born AT
Haddam, Conn. on November 4, 1916 lie
was the son of David Dudley Field. and
one OF four brothers who became IA
nous. David Dudley. Cyrus ". and
| Henry NJ Field being the other members
| of the great quaTtette that made their
| names known throughout the world.
Stephen j. Fields early boyhood was
spent at Stockbrdge, Mass. At the age
OF thirteen he went to Smyrna, where
| his sister had married missionary, Rev.
| Josiah Brewer. who had undertaken an
| educational mission to the Greeks. There
| he acquired a knowledge of Oriental Ian
| guages Returning to this country after
i two and half years. he entered VIII
| liams College, from which he was grad
| uate din 1887 at the head Of his class.
lie then went 10 New York. where he
| entered the law Office Of his brother
| David Dudley Field He was admitted
| to the bar and became a partner in the
| firm remaining as such for seven years.
| In Is4S he went 10 Europe and spent
some time there travelling. In Novem-
Der 1914, he sailed for San Francisco,
around Cape Horn. and entered upon the
| practice of law in the Pacihc metropolis
| ELECTED ALCALDE-
| on January IS. 1850. Mr.. Field was
| elected alcalde or magistrate OF the town
| by nine majority, and the name was
| changed 10 Marysville in honor or the
| only American woman in the place.
| He was elected judge Of the supreme
| Court of California h 1851. for the term
| of six years. In 1859 he became chief
| Justice. succeeding Chief Justice David
| S. Terry.
| In 1863 President Lincoln appointed him
| associate justice of the Supreme Court
| of the United States. and he held that
| position until his retirement. on Deem
| Der |. 1891. During the latter years OF
| his service on the bench he was IN feeble
J health.
! HIS TERM THE LONGEST
His term was the longest in the history
| Of that tribunal. The great chief justice
| John Marshall, wore the ermine for
| period extending over thirty-four years.
| IL was the ambition of the late Justice
! Field to surpass this record, and he sue
ceeded IN doing so by few months. Ills
| friends. fearing that the strain or hard
| work would shorten his useful Ire adj
| vised him to retire from his arduous du-
tios. But. with indefatigable persever-
| ance he chung 10 his task until the Tat
| ter part Of 1897, when he had the salts
| faction Of having fulfilled the ambition
| Of his life.
During this long service on the bench
| he also was before the public eye In
! other ways than as a judge of the United
| States Supreme Court. lie was q mem
| Der Of the Hayes-Tilden electoral COM
| mission in 1877 and voted with the Dem
| ocratic minority. In 1850 ne receivec
sixty-hve votes for the presidential NOM
nation at the Cincinnati Democratic
| convention on the first ballot. In 1878 he
was appointed by the Governor of the
| State of California one Of the commits
| sion to examine the code of laws Of that
| state In 1866 Williams College conferred
upon him the degree Of Ii. d, and in
| 1869 the regents OF the University O.
| California made him professor of law
| in that institution.
ATTACKED BY JUDGE TERRY.
In $3.50 one Of the most sensational
| events Of a remarkably active and vigor.
Gus career brought his personality vivid
| " before the public. Sarah Althea Hill
| Terry had brought suit against ex-Sena-
tor Sharon, California multi-million-
aire Justice Field was on the bench.
| The outcome OF the case was unfavor-
| able TO the plaintiff and engendered in
her feelings OF hatred OF the jurist.
This eliminated in her attempt to chas-
tise the aged Justice in the dining hall
or depot eating house at Lathrop. Cal,
railway junction. Judge Terry. who had
been her attorney in the suit against
| Sharon and who afterward married her.
! interfered. and when 1t seemed that he
| was attempting TO do violence 10 Justice
| Fields person David Magic. a United
| States deputy marshal. drew a revolver
| and shot and killed Judge Terry. Nagle
| was acquitted.
WROTE GO OPINIONS.
| During his incumbency nc said he alone
had written go opinions. which, with D
| In the Circuit Court and 800 IN the can,
| fornia Supreme Court. made up tota'
| Of 1,042 cases decided by him in his NE.
| He took issue with the styling NJ the
| conrt as an aristocra,ic feature ~
republican government and said IT IS me
| most democratic Of all 1T carries ne
wrote. neither the purse nor the sword
hut II Possesses the power n declarin.
| law and in that is found the safeguard
which keeps the whole mighty fabric 81
government from rushing TO destruction.
since his retirement he had lived quiet
| w In his old home. facing the eastern
section of the Capitol grounds lie was
! succeeded on the supreme court pclicn