Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-03-18
JUDGE BEANIE.
Memorial Services by the
kennebec Bar.
Memory Of Oldest Member Hon.
0red by His Associates.
Full Text Of Addresses by MIR. Cornish
and Judge Spear.

The afternoon session of the su-
preme court. on Friday, was devoted
to memorial services for the late Judge
Emery o. Became of Readfeld. A good
~ delegation of the kennebec bar
was present to pay last fitting tri-
butte to the memory of their late dis
tlnguished brother.
Leslie Z. Cornish was the first
speaker addressing the court as fol-
lows:
May it please The Court:
On Tuesday. December 18th. 1894
Hon. Emery .. Bean, the oldest and
one OF the most nororcd members Of
this Bar. passed away al the age of
clShty-ilVe. His associates desire to
place on the records Of this Court be-
fore which he practiced 50 long and 50
cr"ditably, faithful tribute to his
memory.
Born in Rea,lfcld. September 10, 1919.
Died in Rcadlield, December -. 1904
Such is the simple story. but thcs :
words have "A deeper meaning.
In New England. where the tide OF
life has always surged so strongly to-
ward the cities and the larger towns,
we rarely find a man whose more than
four score yeas have been spent in the
pace of his birth. if that place happen
to be a country town. More unusual
sill is it to find this in the case of a
professional man. Almost invariably
the young man entcrin" upon a profess
"ional life deems it unWisc to remain On
he small community in which he has
hct II reared, and he seeks Il larger and
wider sphere. Judge Sean was a not
aiic cxceptioE. Tn. beautiful town of
Headfi"id that gave nim birth was also
a." scene of MS active professional life
lnr sixty years. and within her borders
he .,;rcps the sleep that knows no walk
ing. To thus have lived and worked
and died is in itself Il tribute to the
man.
Judc" Rean came of sturdy New
England stock, of that pioneer type
that came early to this State and
Wrestled successfully with its hard and
stubborn conditions. His education
,Was received at the district school.
supplemented by few terms at kents'
Eli and Monmouth Academy, the
usual curriculum of the farmers boy
nf that time. After leaving school he
began the study of law III the oftic" of
Hon. Timothy q. Howe, at Readfieid
then an able pra' titioner at this Bar
and in after years one of the prominent
men of Wisconsin, n tnitcd States
senator from his adopted state, and
Postmaster General of the United
States. In 1S43, at the age of "a. he
was admitted to the kennebcc Bar.
Pause for moment and think of the
changes that Judge Bean witnessed in
his professional associates. The active
lawyers at the time of his admission
were men distinguished in the profess
sion, Evans, MOrrill, bradbury, Foso,
Baker, Rice, Allen. Wells. Paine,
Eoutclle and many others. Into such
an arena was the young attorney adj
nlittcd. and he lived and labored many
years after all of these had passed
away A new in fact two new. gener-
;,tioiS, came DIP to practice by his side.
Irpon the supreme Benc!. were Whit
man and Shepley and Tcnney. How
many times did Judge Bean see the
personnel of thus Court change COM
tlctcIy. until he finally praciiccd be-
fore Judge? Who were ROT born when
hc vas admitted to the Bar.
Immediately after his admission. Judge
Rcanc went to Hallowcll, where he be-
gan practice under the keen oversight
of one of the great lawyers of Maine.
Henry ". Paine. After remaining there
one wear. he returned to Rcadfcld in 1874
and opened an Office which for sixty
wears WAS rarely closed. In 1|41 II"
formed a partnership with his former
prcccptor, Mr. Howe, and the firm OF
Howe d Rcanc continued until ISIS. when
the senior member moved to the West.
For the next twenty eight years Judge
Eeane conducted the business alone. and
in 1876 he formed partnership with his
son. Fred Emery Beane, which continued
mail his Gpath. a period Of twcnty-eight
years more the senior member conduct
ing the office al Readtield and the Junior
ut IIailowell.
Such in brief IS the history OF his pro-
fessioral life. an ever continuous span.
"lnpared with the number admitted to
the Bar. few lawyers stick to their pro-
iession through a long life. They turn
aside for one attraction or another, or
| lay down the bun den fCng before the
journey is. finished. But Judge Beane
WAS in the active and constant practice
! Of his profession from the day of his
| admission to the very day of his death.
| | find his name for the first time before
| the Law Court in 1871. in a case reported
| in the 9Th Maine Report. and l have no
doubt that it can be found III nearly
| every volume from the 18th down to the
@Sth. n wonderful record indeed. His last
evening he spent in his own home with
| his son and partner to whom ne was
| devoted with all fathers love and pride,
| apparently in excellent health, certainly
| in excellent spirits, reminiscng, as he
| loved to do. of the past but at the same
| time having a care for the present: and
| that very evening he wrote long letter
| to a client in Massachusetts upon some
| matter in which he was deeply interested
| His son has preserved that letter. no;
| dictated as stenogra phcr and then type
| written, but written in long hand with
| all the care and neatness of the lawyer
| of the earlier day. During the night, af-
ter but little suffering, he passed away
and on the following morning client
appeared at his office with whom the