The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-10-15
MEMORIAL SERVICE.
Court and Bar of Washington
County Honors the Memory
of Hiram A. Huse.

On Wednesday evening Washing
ton county court convened at 80
O'Clock the session being for memoir
ial service in honor of the late Hiram
A Huse. In keeping with the char
acteristics of Mr. Huse the exercises
were conducted upon the strictest
lines of simplicity. Lieutenant Gov
ernor Stanton presided. The court
being seated, j. p. Lamson, Esq, in
behalf of the committee on resolutions
of the Washington County Bar Associ-
alton, read the following as the re-
port of the committee:
Resolved, That the courts of the
State and the members of the bar of
Washington county, received with
profound sorrow the intelligence of
the death of Hiram A. Huse, who for
many years had been distinguished
practitioner in this court.
Resolved That we lament the loss
of one whose profound learning in
the law had advanced him so that he
stood among the best lawyers and adj
visers of the State
Resolved, That his memory is en-
titled to be cherished by the members
of this bar for his genial qualities as
an associate, for his professional
honor and ability, and for his wisdom
and independence as man.
Resolved, That the court be request
ed to give these resolutions promi-
nent place upon its records, and that
the clerk be directed to transmit a
copy of the same to the family of the
deceased, with the expression of the
profound sympathy of the bar.
Senator w. p. Dillingham; referring
to the principal incidents of Mr..
! Huse's life, spoke in part as follows
| "The life of a remarkable man is
thus briefly and inadequately outlined,
/ How shall it be made more full
and perfect without assuming proper
! tions unsuited to an occasion of this
tanning the relations with Mr.. Huse
enjoyed by the writer bring this
sketch within the limits demanded?
l can only hope to touch upon the
most salient features of the life now
gone out from among us, but trust
that in the near future some low
ing hand will record with fullness
of detail and appreciative expression
the events connected with and grow
ing out of it.
Referring to Mr. Huse in his early
home life Senator Dillingham; said
Loyalty to principle was the govern
ing force in the family life. Patriot
ism was sacred element in the re-
ligious faith of the household. With
such an inheritance and such a train
ing, possessed of more than usually
thoughtful mind, quickened by the
stirring events and discussions going
on about him, he formed opinions
and reached convictions which shaped,
directed and gave force to all his
future life"
"But the law was his ambition, ~
said Mr.. Dillingham;, after reviewing
occupations in which Mr.. Huse had
engaged as diversions, land destined
to become his mistress. He sketch
ed his course at the law school and
referred to his early association
with two lawyers, whom he charac-
terized as masters in the profession,
each possessing strong individual
characteristics, but different so from
each other that association with them
was double advantage to the begin
ner in the profession. These law
yers were the members of the old time
and long time law firm of Heaton &
Reed, in whose Office Mr.. Huse had
been student.
Referring to Mr.. Huses uniform
habit of courtesy in conducting case
in court Mr.. Dillingham; said: "It
was, however, we'll worth ones time
to witness the performance when
Huse, satisfied that the witness was
dishonest and intended to remain so,
dropped all method and INDUCED in a
vigorous attack inspired by indigna-
ton and the strong purpose of q
strong man to extract the truth. Mr..
Dillingham; gave brief analysis of
Mr.. Huse's characteristics as a law
yer which it is quite impossible to in
clude in this report. OF his habit of
mind and expression when a case had
been decided against him, the speaker
said: His successes gave him gem
uine satisfaction, his defeats he keen
ly felt. If the court SEEM
ed to have begged question, or,
ignoring some great principle in
equity had decided a case upon
some musty precedent of the COM
mon law we'll enough in its day
but now outgrown, his Indignation
was like consuming fire, and his ex-
preston of it in the seclusion of the
office we'll worth listening to. Two
opinions were handed down at one
term of court in both of which Mr..
Huse had met defeat. He read them
carefully and as his custom was re-
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deliberation. In the most important
of the two the reasoning of the court
satisfied his judgment and he expressed
his appreciation of the candor and
ability with which the opinion had
been worked out. In the other the
: reasoning of the court fell far short
of being satisfactory to him. Laying
, the papers aside he remarked to me III
his quaint, droll manner, that when
3 he had been kicked down stairs, and,
after counting his bruises, discovered
that the foot doing the execution was