The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-05-23
THE OLD GENERAT ON
OF LAWYERS ONE BY ONE DIs-
 APPEARING.
This Fact Alluded to in Minute by the Members of the Hartford County Bar on the Death of Roger weIles.

Members of the Hartford Count,
 Bar on the Death of Roger WeIles.
 The members of the Hartford county
 bar at meeting Saturday morning
 passed the following minutes on the
 death of Roger welles;
 The members of the Hartford county bar sincerely regret it's loss in the
 death of one of it's oldest members, the late Roger Wells, who did at his home
 in Newington on Sunday, May 15 1904,
 at the age of seventy-fve years, after
 a brief illness of less than forty-eight
 hours 0 acute pneumonia.
 l With his passing away, the old gene- ration of lawyers in this country al- most totally disappears. We believe that only one of his seniors survive
 him, and he has long since retired from public practice. MT. Welles literally
 died in the harness. He was in the court room two days before his death. He traced his line through an honored and honorable ancestry to the Hon. Thomas Welles, who was governor of the colony of Connecticut in the year
 1855, and again in 1858, and during his seventy-fve years of exemplary and
 useful life he maintained continuously
 through his every act, public and pri- vate, the eninently pure character,
 which was his rightful inheritance, and bequeathed 1t untarnished to his chil- dren-a fortune, on whose title there is
 no cloud.
 Financial success was never his sole ambition For his abilities, governed by the popular ethics of the day, placed it easily within his reach. No dollar was welcome to his income whose his- tory he would fear to tell. His cupidi- ty covered no wealth to be gained through speculative schemes that promised to allure from the credulous illiterate the frugal savings of their lives of labor. To him every client was the meritorious purchaser of his best honest ability, wisest counsel, most sedulous care and fidelity, and most la borious service. He thought of his own fees only after his services for his client had terminated, and then thought only of their intrinsic value. Never of how great an amount he might persuade or hatter or terrify him into paying, re- gardless of justice. His opinions were sought for by those who were readily conceded to be the leaders of the bar all of whom regarded him as learned. conservative and eminently resource full. An excellent all round counsellor whose professional abilities had a. Christian morality for sure founda- Ion- He was a surpassing, capable, careful and fearless legislator. who had | ever in view the rights and just inter- ssts of the people. A model head to his | .amily, prudent counsellor in the af- fairs of the church, of which he had | been for many years a valued and con- petent official, an industrious and acc,l- | -ate historian of his town-his fellow | sitizens all know from the example of | lis daily life that his highest ambition vas to live a life acceptable to his VI aker, and deserving the respect of his 'ellow citizens, and in this he was suc- ,essful to the full. Such men are not ,ecoming fewer, even though thy are ess appreciated than a while ago. and | hough their opposites are becoming apidly more numerous, and rapidly Advancing In personal influence and in professional success. This truth exacts rom us an increasing reverence for nen like Mir. Welles, if we would pre- erve our own self-respect. We are rateful to have had the good fortune 3 have lived in his day, and enjoyed is personal friendship. IS
 We respectfully request the suneriof ourt to direct it's clerk to cause this oppression of our sentiments to be en- cred upon it's records, there to remain yllfle courts and records shall endure.