The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1900-05-05
A Cherished
NAME.
State Bar Does Honor
to the Memory
of Chancellor
McGill.
AS MAN AND JURIsT
OloW1nS NCCoSliieioAi VI A0
Geniality, Honor and
High Capacity.
OTTO cRoUsE's TRIBUTE
Intimate Details of a Beau
tiful Life Told in the
Words of a Loving
Friend.
A Great Gathering of Admirers
Hears Eulogiums by Magic,
A Great Gathering of Admirers
Hears Eulogiums by Magic,
Dixon and Pitney.

The memorial meeting of the State and
County Bar Associations to honor the
memory of the late Chancellor Alexander
II. AfcGill. took place this morning in the
Supreme Court room of the Court House
1t was distinguished gathering met ap-
propriately in the very room where the
deceased Judge first manifested, as Vice
Chancellor Pitney said, his future greats
ness and character.
Immediately below the bench sat Vice
, Chaneellers H. c. Pitney, F. w. Stevens,
J. r. Emery, W. D. Grey and Reed, Su-
prerne Court Justices Gilbert Collins.
Jonathan A. Dixon and Job Lippincott,
Judge Blair, Judge H. M. Nevius. Judge
C. ". Parker, c. L. Corbin, R. " Linda
bury. Senator W. NJ. Johnson, exJudge
Eugene Stevenson, William A. Lewis
Mayor Edward Hoos and Judge Barkalow.
Colonel S. Meredith Dickinson OF
the Court of Chancery. A little to
The left of the bench sat DR..
John D. McGin and some members of the
late ChancelloT's family Ouside the rail
sat the following:-Ex-Judge Atwater,
Prosecutor ]. w. Stagg, of Bergen; ex-
Judge Dayton, ex-Judge J. d. Bedle,
Judge A. Smith, Isaac S. Taylor, Chas.
H. Hartsherne, James D. Vredeniburgh,
: ex-Judge A. Q. Garretson, E. Q. Keasbey,
ex-Gov. G. 7. Werts, Otto Grouse, Ham
ilton Wallis, E. A. S. Lewis, John 7.
Nugent, Prosecutor Jas. S. Erwin, As
sistant Prosecutor Marshall Van Wrinkle,
FIavel MCGEE, G. G. Tenant, j. w.
Queen, Chas. Carrick, Isaac Romaine, ex-
Senator William Brinkerhoff, w. B.
Gourley, ex-Judge II. f. Noonan, ]. F.
Marion, J. Weart, Chas. c. Black, Jas. F.
Minturn, Chas. D. Thompson, W. K.
Birdsal, VIM. C. Heppenheimer, Sheriff
c. Ruempler H. V. Condict, w. A.
Lewis, ]. j. Heavey, j. A. DENIM, A. 1.
Drayton, w Carey, E. Cowles, Col. ]. J.
Toffey, w. G. Bumsted, Robert Lightfoot,
Jas Baker Washington B. Williams, E.
Dewitt, De Witt Van Buskirk, J. Nc
Master, W. H Corbin, Max Salinger.
At eleven o'clock Mr.. Cortlandt Parker,
one of the State Bar leaders. opened the
meeting, and on motion of Mr.. Isaac S.
Taylor, was made temporary chairman,
pending the arrival of Chancellor Magic.
Mr. E. A. S. Lewis of Hoboken was made
Secretary.
Mr. Parker then made a graceful speech
as to the objects of the gathering. At the
outset he said that the bar of New Jer-
sey had been greatly blessed. AS for him
self. he knew every Chancellor of the
State since the constitution of 1874, and
he described the characteristics of each.
Coming to the late Chancellor. he said he
was worthy of the great roll of Chancel-
lors. The mantle had fallen on good
shoulders.
Judge Blair moved the appointment Of
committee of nine to draft suitable reso-
1utions. and the chairman named this
committee:-C. Parker. Vice-Chancellor ].
r. Emery, r. v. Lindabury, G. B. Vroom,
c. L. Cookin, Eugene Stevenson, A. H.
Strong, w. H. Morrow, D. j. Pantacoost.
These having retired, the chairman called
on the senior Vice-Chanceilor, Henry c.
Pitney, to make an address
Mr.. Pitney began in a tremulous voice.
Alexander T. McGill, Chancellor and
Surrogate General of the State of New
Jersey and presiding Judge of the highest
court has passed away in the very prime
of his beautiful manhood, at the point
of his highest usefulness as a Judge.
He was called away by the inexorable
power which brooks no denial, and
though he fought long and well against
the slowly encroaching folds of the
grim monster, and was assisted in his
courageous struggle by all that medical
science and skill could devise, and all
that the delicate touch of a devoted wife
and of loving relatives and friends could
do he yielded at last, as yield he must.
Why he should be thus stricken down at
such an untimely season is known only
to that overruling Providence which re-
fuses to solve the mystery. And although
he passed away, as we with our human
limitations feel, all too soon,, yet not be-.
fore he had made his mark deep and
enduring upon the judicial history of the
State.
Future generations of students Of juris-
prudence will note those marks and see
shining through them the bright intellect
that perceived so clearly. reflected SO
calmly, and finally judged so accurately.
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