The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-09-27
FUNERAL JUDGE HASKELL.
Large Attendance Friends and AssOct-
ates-EnlOgy by Rev. John Carroll
Perkins.

dicial court of Maine, called together at
the First Parish church yesterday after
noon, a large assemblage of relatives,
friends and associates. All his associates
on the Supreme Bench except Judge Fog
Ter, were present. Congressman Amos l..
Allen, Hons Horace III. Burbank o f Sa-
co. II. M. Higgins of Limerick, Samuel
M. Came and John Is. Donovan of AL
fred, Willis L. Emmons of Saeo, were
present from the York bar. Senator L.
M Staples Of Washington, was present
from the Knox bar and Hon. Leslie Q.
Cornish of Augusta from the Kennebe c
bar. From the Androsooggln bar were
George c. Wing of Auburn, Wallace IL
White and Franklin @. Drew of Lewis
ton
The Cumberland Bar attended in
body Bosworth Post was represented by
a delegation, and the flag from the altar
of the post was draped on the casket, in
accordance with the appropriate custom
Of the u. A. IL,
Promptly at three O'Clock the casket
was borne up the main aisle Of the
church, preceded by the pastor, in his robe
of Office, recitingspassag~ of scripture be-
ginning with II am the resurrection and
the life " Following the casket were the
pail bearers, Judge William l., Putnam Of
the United States circuit court, Judge
Nathan Webb Of the United States Dis
trict court, Chief Justice Andrew p. Wis
we'll and Associate Justice Sewall @.
Strout of the Maine Supreme court, ex-
Governor Henry b. Cleayes and ex-Judge
Joseph W. Symonds, representing Cum
berland Bar AS the casket was placed
before the pulpit, the pastor offered a brief
invocation, followed by soriptural selec-
tions referring to the life beyond the
grave, to the love of God, and the GER
tainty of Immortality.
The choir then rendered the hymn
"Lux Benigna,'' beginning
Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling
gloom,
Lead thou me on
The night is dark and I lam far from
home,-
Lead thou me on
Keep thou my feet; I do not ask to see
me-
The pastor, Rev. John Carroll Perkins,
then said:
sB"Once again the hand of death has
reached out from behind the folds of Its
dark canopy, with almost instantaneous
swiftness, and done It's certain work.
With but slight premonition to his fami-
ly, ana with none whatever to the wide
circle OF his as sociates, our friends spirit
was required of him. In the very prime
of his best life, with those years still walt
ing for which we look with naturaisantic-
patton to bestow the crown of a mans la
Dor, the cloud of his departure rose quick
Iy overspread his path and blotted from
our mortal eyes the definite track of its
continuance.
sin this first moment OF surprise, our
minds are stung with the visions of a
broken home, where one is left to bear
alone life long shared in an unusual in
timacy of deep affection: of q high office
interrupted, that for sixteen years has
claimed and won service and attention,
a most minute carefulness ana jealous
devotion, such as few men are able to
maintain, of a community deprived hence
forth of a citizenship which for thirty
four years has been characterized by a
stable, conservative, strength.
Judge Haskell was In marked degree
what the world speaks of as a sef-made
man, And yet If there is anything in he
redity, we might almost say that certain
of his ancestors compelled his feet to
walk In paths that led TO legal study and
halls Of Justice. Chief Justice Parsons
OF his fathers line, CHIEF Justice Whit
man of his mothers line doubtless inn
planted those tendencies in the family
stock, which have been naturally perpet-
uated in their later son, Educated in the
common schools OF New Gloucester, which
was his birthplace AMI early home, and a
higher school at Norway, he achieved his
preparation for collegiate studies with the
purpose of prosecuting them at Bowdoin
college, / remember his relating to me,
perhaps only half regretfully in the light
of his subsequent career, how he turned
aside from his cherished plans and en-
tered the military service Of his country
After nine months with his regiment in
Virginia as a on-oommissioned officer,
he returned to his home, determined to
forego his anticipated college training,
and. entered at once upon the study of
law. After two years spent with Judge
Morrill, Of Auburn, he was admitted to
practice before the Bar of Androscoggin
county. A few months later, in the fatal
year of 1866. he determined to make our
city his home. He associated himself sue
cessively in practice, for comparatively
brief periods, wit h the late Judge God
dard, the Honorable William w. Thomas
Jr., Judge Nathan Webb and Mr.. Ed
ward Woodman, of which the last associ-
alton was dissolved by Mr.. HaskelI's ele-
walton in March, 1884, to the Supreme
Bench of Maine. Two full terms of this
office are in his credit. A third is broken
by his untimely death. During his prac-