New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-12-16
T. H. BURR md JUDGE H1SBROUCk FOR SUPREME
COURT-C II. MURRAY FOR COURT or CLAIMS
arenor Higgins Selects Frank PerLy for and
SeIden T. Mar1in Military Secretary
TWO NEW JUSTICES.
Spccess0rs to Messrs. Cullen and
Herick-TheT Careers.

coTernor Odell yesterday announced his ap-
,,ntnnents to fill vacancies now existing on the
t.,cb t4e named ex-Corporution Counsel Jo-
ss,b A. Burr Of Kings County, TO succeed Justice
r5ear n. Cullen, and Judge G. d. 3. Has
brorck. Of the Court of Claims, to succeed d.
csdy Herrick who resigned To run for Governor,
IN the Supreme Court. To succeed Judge Has
brouck in the Court Of Claims he named Charles
y Murray who yesterday retired president
If the county committee. rtlking way Tor Will
,am F. Halpin.
Justice Hasbrouck is a resident of Kingston,
--ls,er County. He was well known as an az
,o,r4y and was Deputy Attorney General in the
,erm Of Attorney General Hancock. In De-
oar7ber. 1891. Governor Oden appointed him as
s,7dee of the Court Of Claims. to succeed Judge
John F. Parkhurst, Of Bath. who resigned.
Charles H. Murray is well known in this city
as 2 lawyer. He was born in San Francisco in
1870 and came here with his parents when he
was four years oId. He is a graduate of the
Columbia Law School. His first active work in
polifics was as an election district captain Of the
id Sd Assembly District. and in 1889 he became
tader Of the district. He was appointed Super
visor Of the Census in 1890 and when the work
of enumeration was over was commissioned
United States Assistant District Attorney. In
1888 ne ran for the office of County District At
torney on the Republican ticket. running ahead
Of any other candidate on the ticket. In 1894
he appointed member Of the bipartisan
Board Of Police Commissioners by Mayor GIL
roy and he has also served Aqueduct Com
missioner. In 1901 he succeeded Edmund J.
Palmer as Quarantine Commissioner. He has
held that poo Mon until the present time He
has always bee.s actively identified with the Sth
Assembly District. and when elected president
Of the Republican County Committee last year
was leader Of this district
Joseph A Burr ex-Corporation Counsel of
Brooklyn, Is the senior member of the law firm
pf Burr, Coonbs & Wilson. He was born Sep
kernber Il. 1850. in the Eastern District, and is
f. descendant of an English family which set
LED here in 1885. He is a Ineal descendant of
BUstice Peter Burr. one Of the first Chief Jus
ftices Of the Supreme Court of Connecticut. His
grandfather, General Gershon Burr. command
I'd the Connecticut troops in the War of 1912.
He vas graduated from Yale in 1871. where he
won honors for literary ability and scholarship.
Il his sophomore year he took prize in Eng
fish composition of the contest
ants IN the junior oratorical contest, and was
poet Of the senior class. He was elected to the
Delta Kappa Epsilon Phi Beta Kappa and the
VOLTS Head.
After being graduated he entered the law Of
fee of Theodore F. Jackson and studied in the
Columbia Law School from which he was
graduated in 1874. The same year he was ad-
pitted 10 the bar and went into partnership with
Nr. Jackson. The partnership was dissolved
when M Jackson was elected Controller and
the present firm was established. On Janu-
sry 2 1896. he was appointed Corporation
Counsel oI Brooklyn by Mayor Wurster. OF
;wenty-ofe cases which his Office represent
ed for the city before the Court of APP
pals the court upheld nineteen. As a result
d the appreciation for his uneXcelled work as
Corporation Counsel, Mr.. Burr was nominated
In 1897 by the Republicans of the ID Judicial
DstricJ for the Supreme Court. being one Of
ee few men that were not defeated in the
uonyention by the Plat forces In spite Of the
dnoralized condition Of the anti-Tammany
froes NJ. Burr ran far ahead of the ticket.
NJ Burr was one of the organizers Of the
Brooklyn Bar Association. and has served as
its President. He is a member Of the New-Eng-
land Society Brooklyn Young Republican Club,
Union League Club and Yale Alumni Associa-
Ion and has served in an official capacity in all
q them. He is a member of the CIasson Avenue
Presbyterian Church. and has served as chair
man If ITS board OF trustees. He has been coun-
tei 10 the First National Bank. the New-York
ara Brooklyn Ferry Company. the American
Sugar Refining Company and other companies,
ss well as private counse! to ex-MayOr Wurster.
DE is president and director Of the Burr & Hous-
'oh Company, director Of the Empire State
zion
IN October. 1874 ne married Miss Ella Daw-
w. VI -Ne"-HaYen. lie has two children