The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1902-04-11
RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED.
Bar Association Pays Respect to the
Memory of O. O. Pitcher.


At the special term of the district
curt MondaG afternoon, the following
preamble and resolutions were present
ed and adopted:
On the 22nd day of March, 1902. the
Blue Earth County Bar association
assembled in recognition Of the death
of Grin o. Pitcher, member OF said
association, who departed this life at
his home in the city of Mankato on
the Goth day of March, 1902, and ar
ranged to attend the funeral of said
deceased in body, and appointed
committee consisting of Daniel Buck,
Sheldon F. Barney and M. j. Sever
ance to draft and present to the dis
trict court for said county at special
term thereof on the 18th day of April,
1902, resolutions expressive of the
esteem in which such association
held the deceased, in view of his life
and character, to the end that per-
petual record of the same may remain
in the archives of said court; therefore
said committee, in behalf of the Blue
Earth County Bar association, report
the following resolutions and pray
that they may be spread upon the
records of this court:
Resolved, That the bar of Blue
Earth county is deeply sensible of it's
loss by the death of Grin o. Pitcher,
one of its oldest and most honored
members. He saw the earliest dawn
Of organized society in Blue Earth
county and kept pace with it through
its youth and up to its present stalwart
manhood. He shirked none of the
demands of society, but always act
ed his part conscientiously and fear
lessly, building not only for the pres
emit but for the future. He saw Man
kato immerge from primeval forest
and take it's place among the thriving
cities of the state. He helped to shape
every enterprise that quickened its
pulse and rocked the cradle of its edu
cational institutions with more than
a loving hand.
Resolved, That in the career of the
deceased we recognize a man without
egotism and willing to act his part in
the business of life silently, without
ostentation, and without the compen-
sation of temporal fame or distinction,
baubles for which he never sought but
always despised.
Resolved, That as a lawyer the de-
ceased was always guided by an honest
purpose to arrive at the truth and
| Justice of the case before him, and
with an accurate mind, sound judg-
ment and a desire to do right, he
could never be misled by chicane and
sophistry. The contentious of the
forensic arena were never suited to his
taste, but his place was in the library
and at the council board, and there
his abilities shone the brightest.
Resolved, That as a citizen the life
! of the deceased provoked no enemiries,
for, willing to run an equal race with
others. he did it without envy OF
censorious criticism. whatever the
outcome Nigh be. Tolerant in every
thing, he never assumed dominion
lover any mans mind, but conceded
that the honest opinions of Others
were everywhere entitled to respect
even if at variance with his own
Outside of professional and civic duty
his presence always ilIumined ever
social occasion and his good nature AM
cheerful disposition made him com
+, panion whose memory will linger witt
US for all coming time. This mucI
we are constrained to say, that Oril
10. Pitcher was an honest man /,
every walk of life-that he neve
. denied any man his right or withheld
what to him belonged. To say thi
truthfully of any man is to say tina
he lived an innocent and useful life
a life worthy of sll limitation.
DANIEL BUCK,
SHELDON F. BARNEY,
IS NJ. J. SEVERANCE.
Judge Severance, City Attorne
IL Daley and Judge Cray made SON
eulogistic remarks concerning til
n deceased, after which tie resolution
were ordered by the court to be spreS
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