Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-01-20
County Bar Holds a Memorial
for Judge J. J.
Glenn.
RESOLUTIONS IN THE RECORD
Attorneys Eulo9ize Departed Jurist
= For His Many Admirable
Characteristics.

vi tue idlt JuuSe JONI y
Glenn. who for - years presided in
| this circuit.
The chairman of the committee
William Jackson. presented the reso-
luton. which were printed in last Sat
urday's Argus. and moved that they
be spread upon the records of the
court. which motion was allowed by
the court after remarks were made by
number OF the older members of the
BAR and those more intimately asso-
ciated with him as a judge. and in fur.
Their respect to the memory of Judge
Glenn. the court adjourned until this
afternoon at = O'Clock when the trial
of the Steckman case was resumed.
Mr.. Jackson in presenting the resolu-
tons spoke very feelingly and elo-
quentiy of the departed jurist.
First Meeting I'm 1878.
After detailing the constitution of
the court when first called TO the bar
the speaker referred to- his first assn
citation with Judge Glenn as a judge
AT the September term. 1878. of the cir
cult court. and thereafter as Judge
Peasants was Immediately assigned
w dBDti4dAt CDuIi anu
substantially out OF active practice on
the circuit. Judge Glenn held most of
the court here. 1T was during these
years that we were brought in per
sonal contact with him and that per
sonal contact resulted in great love
and regard for him. Now when I say
that ] mean just what | say. | don't
desire TO eXaggerate. | believe in all
my life. and | have now attained the
years of three score and ten. I never
met a man with more happy. kind
disposition than Judge Glenn. That
was the one great characteristic of the
judge. a happy disposition. In all the
years that he presided in this court
don't believe that ! ever saw him
out of humor but once and that under
circumstances that he was as II
thought perfectly excusable. There
was a feeling of oneness and he seem
ed TO be able TO appreciate and COM
prehend your feelings towards him
and was of that reciprocal disposition
and spirit to feel towards you as you
felt towards him. And that was the
characteristic that endeared him to ev-
erybody that was brought in personal
contact with him
Tell. of Old Times.
f. ID. Sweeney followed in remin-
iscences of the early days of his prac-
tice here. OF his acquaintance with the
judge while yet a practitioner at the
bar. and his experiences with him
while on the bench. He paid an elo-
quent tribute to him as judge. as a
citizen and Christian gentleman.
characteristics OF Three Juri.ts.
w. J. Entrikin referred TO the Pc
culiar characteristics of Judge Pleas
ants as being Judge who was the
maker of precedent, who went 10 the
foundation of things. who reasoned the
law out in his own mind and then
sight the Endorsement of the books for
his conclusions. OF Judge Smith he
stated that he was not SO learned in
the law. but man with preeminent
sense of right and justice and as a
Judge who decided cases not SO much
upon precedent as upon what appeared
TO him to be right in the particular
case. Judge Glenn he considered as
possessing in a marked degree the
Smith and while not depending entire
ly upon precedent still having re-
gard for well settled decisions and at
the same time having a deep abiding
sense of right and justice. He re-
ferred especially to the reformation
which Judge Glenn sought to stimulate
i'm persons whom the law made il his
duty to sentence TO terms of imprison-
ment. x
Free FROM faint Of Corruption.
c. J. Scare. speaking for the young
er members of the bar. concurred in
all that had been said by the preced-
ing speakers and emphasized the fact
that while corruption seems to be
rampant in the halls of the legislature
and even in some courts. there has not
been the slightest suspicion of any
thing like the whisper of corruption n
the bench of our circuit and that the
character of the bar in this county and
in this circuit has been high and hon
orable.
Number Of Other. Heard.
After remarks by II. A. Weld. Hon
W T. Church, county judge from
Aledo. who spoke on behalf of the
Mercer county bar, Adair Peasants.
Hon. William McEniry. George W.
Wood. J. b. Oakleaf. W. r. Moore and
an address by Hon. w. II. Gest, the
presiding judge. whose remarks were
in the line of those of the older mem
beers of the bar and breathed tho
sense of personal loss in the death of
Judge Glenn In respect &c the memory
of the departed jurist. coui adjourned
until this afternoon and the 'esolutions
as reported were ordered by the court
TO be entered upon the proceedings Of
the court Mrs. W. II. Gest. Mrs. Z
ID. Sweeney and Mrs. William Jackson
were present at the meeting