Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-12-15
JUSTICE C. V. BARDEEN.
Eulogies Delivered at the Elks' Mem
oriai at Madison.

orial at Madison.
At the Eiks' memorial services, held
Sunday, Dec 9th, by the Madison
members of that order, Governor La
Toilette and assistant attorney gen.
eral Walter d. Corrigan, paid tributes
to the memory of the late Justice e. "
Bardcen. Governor LaFolette said :,
Judge Bardeen was in the law school
when | was on the bill. The institution
was not 80 large in those days, and one
knew we'll practically all the students
in each department. 1t is 10 the morn
ing of life whenNthe blood is warm and
quick that the bonds Of friendship are
most strongly welded. His professional
life was IN the northern part of the
state, mine in the southern, and | saw
him only rarely for many years. but
there was always in every greeting a
reflection of the ardor and glow of
youth.
LAS the sphere of his professional life
enlarged and be broadened 10 meet its
demands / reioiced in his advancement,
and finally in his elevation to the su-
preme bench, where he closed all too
soon an honorable and distinguished
career.
"For all OF us who knew him best,
the influence of his daily life must ever
bide with us as a noble example of
right living and heroic dying. To go
in and out among ones associates and
companions Gay after day and month
after month, with death as a constant
shadow; to contemplate the end of all
the joys and am EDITIONS of a sturdy and
vigorous life, and to know that the
sweet and tender ties binding together
the loved ones at the home, must be
TORN asunder, is the supreme test alike
of unselfish devotion and high courage.
MANY months have gone by since
this brother left US, and time with sooth-
ing touch has softened somewhat the
sharpness OF our grief, but WE shall.
while we live, cherish his mem6Sy and
find inspiration in the fidelity and
strength and the fortitude and courage
of his life.''
Mr. Corrigan, whose home is in Port
age county, and who knew Mr.. Bardeen
when the latter was in the full flush of
manhood, said
"Being a member a Stevens Point
lodge, not, in fact, far distant from our
lamented Brother Bardeen's old home,
Wausau, | count it a privilege, though
solemn one indeed, to testify here
today of his sterling worth and virtue
as an Elk, a lawyer and jurist, and d
man.
"His biography is his euIogy. Moth
ing | could say could add thereto-aye
words from Cicero could not
shadow or brighten the shining acts of
his life or the sterling worth of his
character.
"He was born on farm in 1850 in
Madison county, n. Y. When four
years of aye his parents left the old
home and settled in Wisconsin on a
farm at Albion, Dane county. All the
early years of his life he worked upon
the farm. Thus brought up from
childhood, he was inspired by nature
and cultured by hard work. With
that inspiration and culture was
formed the foundation of noble man
hood, a lifelong characteristic of Chas.
V. Bardeen.
OF Scotch Puritan parentage, his
early moral training could not be
otherwise than such as to always
point the way to the right and away
from the wrong. The way that was
pointed 70 him he followed through
life His life was demonstration OF
what good training and good con-
science will do
He graduated from the academy in
1870 ard commenced the study of law
at Edgerton. He taught school to
help himself in his studies. The real
ities of life were, indeed, stern to him,
but his spirit of determination and fac
uIty of concentration of effort was
winning for him the battle of life.
Possesse of the independence, brav-
cry and confidence, that his former
| life would be sure to inculcate in him
with the spirit that inspired young
men to go west and grow up with the
| country-possesse with none of the
worlds goods, but with an ambition
and determination to win place as
an honored citizen and member of the
bar, and with the resolution in his
heart to deal justly with his fellow.
man, he entered the sparsely settled
piuerv of Wisconsin, and settled fol
| his life work at Wausau, then mere
pioneer frontier village. He suffered
| the privations that most lawyers meet
| With few books and few clients he
struggled on. Every sunset could tel
the story that during the day Chas. Y
Bardeeu had made progress. He fel
not To temptation nor was he victim
of pride. Guided by the lessons h'
had learned in youth, and by the
ambitions of his boyhood and early
manhood. keeping in the pathway o
righteousness, always performing duty
honestly and justly, meeting every
responsibility with courage aud forti
tude, making every act of his life al
example of his living for the eterna
right. he climbed the ladder of fam
aud honor, as citizen, a lawyer and
man
His merit was so we'll known tha
in 1892 he was Justly hOnored with tn
high and honorable office of circni
Judge. His wisdom and judicial abilit.
was such that his service as Judge wa
both an honor to the office aud to aim
self.
"In 1898 he reached the goal of hi
earthly ambition, the supreme court q
the state. His service there was di:
tinguished and able. Short as was hi
career upon that bench permitted t
be, his work will always stand as
monument To his memory as a judicis
authority and writer.
His life in this city, like his III
always, was shining example g
noble mauhood-a life su lived tina
every one of US point to il with prid'
An honored, respected citizen {
our state and country, an able, homes
lawyer and jurist, worthy, bene'
olent brother Elk, noble husban
J and father. Such a man was on