The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1906-09-21
JUDGE ALVEY DEAD.
End Of the Interesting Career
of This Eminent Jurist.

of Appeals of the District of
Columbia, and for ten years Chief
Judge of the Maryland Court of
Appeals, died at his home in Hag-
erStown, Friday night last, the
18th inst. Death was caused by
enlargement of the liver, due to
an Injury sustained i'll alig hting
from carriage. He was so
wears old.
Judge Alvey is survived by a
widow, who was his second wife.
She was a daughter of the late
DR. j. G. Hay, of Washington
County. He also left the follow
ing children: William, an official
of the Santa Fe Railroad, living
in Texas; Frank, cashier of the
First National Bank, Beaumont,
Texas; Mrs. Julia WOrthington.
wife of Glenn II. Worthington,
Frederick, Nd; Richard II. Jr.,
and Charles Alvey, attOrneys-at-
law. HagerslOwn: Frederick, Az
sistant Collector for the District
Of Columbia; Mrs Margaret
Allen. wife of GRAHAM Allen, of
West Virginia; Harry, assistant
superintendent of the Tygarts
River Lumber Company, West
Virginia, and Miss Anna Alvey,
at home.
The funeral was held on Mon
day afternoon at . o'clock. Ser
vices were held at the residence.
on Prospect Street, conducted by
Rev. Henry +. Cotton, rector of
ST. Johu's Episcopal Church, and
interment was made in Rose Hill
Cemetery The honorary pail
bearers included men in official
life and friends of the deceased
jurist from WaShinaton and else
where.
Richard Henry Alvey was
descendant of English ancestors
who came to America with Lord
Baltimore and settled in st.
Mays County. He was the eld-
est of the eight children of George
Alvey, school teacher and mag
iStrate of st. Mars County. He
was born in 1926. When IS
years of age he became a clerk in
the office of the court clerk of
Charles County. studying law at
night. In 1919 he was admitted
to the bar. In 1850 he moved to
HagerStOwn.
Soon after moving to Hager<-
town he was nominated by the
Democrats for State Senator, and
Stumped Washington County,
then strongly Wing. The result
was a TIE In the second election
he was defeated by only few
votes. In 1852 he was nominal.
ed a Pierce elector, and can.
vassed the State, which gave a
large Democratic ma iority.
When the Civil War commenced
he opposed secession, bnt he felt
that many of the grievan :es of
the South were well founded.
In 1861 he was arrested at
HagerstOwn by Union officers
upon the charge of holding com.
/ municatiOnS with the Confeder
ates. He was sent to Fort Nc
Henry, Fort Lafayette, and finally
to Fort Warren, Boston, and
there held until the February fol
lowing, when he was permitted
to return home on parole.
Judge Alvey after the war
worked hard for the restoration
of. the rights of many Maryland
citizens who had been disfran
chiSed. He drafted the present
jury law for Maryland, aud work
ed hard for its passage by the Leg
lslarure in 1867 He was one of
the leading figures in the Mary
land Constitutional Convention
lie was twice elected Chief Judge
of the Fourth Maryland Judicial
Circuit.
He became Chief Judge of the
Court of Appeals of Maryland
upon the retirement of Chief
Judge Bartol on November 18th,
1888, having been designated for
that office by Governor Hamilton.
In April, 1898. he was appoint
ed Chief Justice of the Court of
Appeals of the District of Co,
lumbia In 1895 President Cleve,
land appointed Judge Alvey on
the commission to establish the
boundary line between Venzuela
and British Guiana.
Judge Alvey retired from the
bench on December 81, 1904, and
was presented silver service bv
the bar of the District of Colum
bia. He had been on the bench
for 80 successive years. For 10
years he was Chief Judge of the
Maryland Court of Appeals.
lie had been living quietly in
Hagerstown since his retirement.
He had several farms and other
4 business interests.