Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-20

taking the prize of 500 in gold for his es-
say on The Public Duties Of a Lawyer"
During his attendance upon the law school
he was also student in the office of
Messrs. Riddle, Davis & Padgett. and the
year following his graduation was admit
ted to the bar.
After being in practice but short while
he was appointed assistant United States
attorney by Judge John B. Hoge, under
whom he served until he resigned to ac-
cept the position Of assistant attorney of
the District Of Columbia. in association
with Messrs. Albert G. Riddle and Henry
E. Davis, and upon Mr.. Davis becoming
United States attorney he was again APP
pointed an assistant to that official and
served throughout his incumbency of the
office, resigning upon the appointment Of
Mr.. Davis successor.
Noted for Learning and Fidelity.
During his service under Mr.. Davis he
distinguished himself by the intelligence,
learning and fidelity which he displayed in
the discharge of his duties, and made an
enviable record in his position In all of
his professional relations and the meeting
of his professional duties he evinced a
rare talent for his calling. was studious
and acute. and was especially successful
before juries. He had the gift of a bright
and kindly wit, added to the more solid
qualities of the orator, and his courteous
address and genial disposition united with
his other qualities to make him a forceful
and winning speaker
Since his retirement from the office of
the United States attorney he followed the
practice of his profession assiduously until
within the past year or two, when his
health began to fail and, as already stated,
his fatal illness seized him in March last,
since when he has been confined to his bed.
Among his most striking characteristics was
his true conception of the older and higher
ideals of the office of the lawyer and ad-
vocate, and he was conspicuous in his
devotion to those ideals as he was In fidel-
ity to his friends. His popularity was lin
tied only by the extent of his acquaintance,
and the many kindly, warm and affectionate
expressions which have already been heard
touching his untimely death were never
more merited.
His Antecedents.
Mr.. Shillington was the son of Elizabeth
A. Cummings of Baltimore, Nd, and the
late Joseph Shillington, who, at the cor
ner of Pennsylvania avenue and Az street,
now John Marshall place, for forty-four
years conducted the book, periodical and
newspaper store which carried his name
throughout the country. Mr. Shillington, ST.,
was the first distributor In Washington of
the Baltimore Sun, his relations to that
journal beginning with Its establishment,
and during the civil war and for each of the
decades preceding and following that event
his place was the rendezvous of all the
prominet men of the time and the point of
distribution of most of the political senti-
ments, news and gossip of the time
Mr.. Joseph Shilington's personality and
ancestry constitute link between the
Washington of today and the Washington
Of ante-bellum days, growing less and less
familiar to Its present day population. He
leaves surviving him his wife, Mrs. Mary
Acker Shillington, daughter of John Fred
erick Acker deceased, the well-known con-
tractor and builder, and two daughters,
Katharine and Florence, and in addition,
the employ of the Real Estate and CO.
lumbia Title Insurance Companies, and two
sisters, Alice, wife of w. w. Wiltshire Of
Seattle, state of Washington, and Florence
s., widow of Frederic Eberly of this city.
The arrangements for the funeral have
not been concluded.