The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-04-15

The following memorial drafted by
committee composed of o. B. Jameson,
Noble c. Butler. Charles w. Smith, Ed
ward Daniels and Lawson NJ. Harvey. was
adopted:
Nathan Morris was born in Coloma, in
the State OF California, on May 81, 1851. His
father was a native of Prussia and his
mother was an Englishwoman. They were
married in London in 1S45 and in 1S47 they
emigrated to the United States and located
of gold in California they made the voyage
around Cape Horn and settled at Coloma.
Subsequently they removed to Virginia
began his education in the public and pri-
vate schools of that place. Virginia City
was unable at that time to furnish all that
could be desired in the way Of educational
opportunities for him and he was afterward
sent to school in the city of New York for
a brief period which terminated in 1870
I'm 1871 his parents located in the city OF
indianapolis, and shortly afterward he en-
tered the service of a firm Of wood engrav-
ers here and remained with them until 1876,
when he began the study of the law I'm the
partners. He also took a Course in the
Central Law School. at the end Of which he
was graduated with credit. He was ad-
practice of the law in the Office where he
had begun his professional studies. After
the death Of General Chapman he formed
partnership with Louis Newberger and was
1908.
HE was for a while one of the commits
sioners of the Circuit Court of the United
State for the district of Indiana For many
years he was one of the members of the
committee TO examine applicants for adj
mission to the bar OF the United States
courts in this district. At the time of his
death he was president of the Indianapolis
Bar Association.
He discharged all of his official and pro-
fessional obligations acceptably and we'll
al no har ha
became generally and widely known for
his accurate and thorough knowledge of
commercial law. His knowledge of 1t was
supplemented by his practical acquaint-
ance with the .intricacies Of mercantile
transactions. his keen and sure insight
into them, and his capacity to deal intelli-
gently with every situation as IL arose in
his experience. His knowledge Of CONNER
cial law necessarily included an equally
intimate knowledge of the law of corpora
tions, and his sagacious advice and counsel
have been the safe and efficient prop of
many corporate enterprises. His relations
with the courts and his brethren at the bar
were always harmonious. and bore the
stamp of a demeanor which was at once
respectful toward them and himself.
FRIENDS OUTSIDE THE BAR.
Outside the bar and his professional re-
lations with the members Of II, his troops
of loyal friends attest the delightful rela-
tons witch existed between himself and
the rest OF the world about him. He was
entirely free from malice rancor and
bore frequent testimony to the genuineness
of his regard for others In words and acts
whose significance was indisputable. The
poor of Indianapolis have occasion to re-
member with gratitude his lavish charity
and his patient and studious efforts to
make the benevolence of others as effective
as his own He was in touch with the life
OF the community with which he lived
at many points. He was actively inter-
ested I'm it's politics. member of the
synagogue. and prominent In social and
literary clubs.
while he did not proclaim any prof.
cheney in literature or the arts, and was
not seriously concerned about their educa-
tive value, he was very much interested
in them and sought TO propa gate such an
interest in them as might ease and brighten
the lives of men and women everywhere.
Poetry and fiction, music and sculpture,
pictures and ornaments, and not only these
contributions of literature and the arts to
the pleasure of men and women, but those
more beautiful well as more evaneScent
contributions of nature to their happiness
the flowers which mark her gayest and
most genial moods-had a special attraction
for him because they made life attractive
and enabled him 10 make Ii attractive for
And II was his generous consideration for
others that became habitual and instructive
with him. and a part Of his very nature.
which, on a dreadful Easter morning, ex-
cluded from his mind all base consideration
for himself and moved him TO give his life
freely, unreservedly, unhesitatingly for the
lives of. his sister and her children, and
made for him an enviable place among men
of heroic mold in the moment of his de-
orrri fr0rr