The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-06-18

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Henry A Ba$hatn came - Raleigh
from Cho~an county x I mistake got
and removed "a AlauAac~ sUrluE. e.
soon AFTER. the wAr and a3e3 = f~~
ears thereafter lie was 3 geutie-
the Law partner o. Il " Miller. bat
had not much o~pporuntty 8: t4ar-
Ing as 20 MS legal attainment.
Wu : Mason inherited talent from
his rtversd father Rev Dr = :
Mason. Who Tor i generation VAS rec
tor - Christ Church. Raleigh He
was a good lawyer. though NOT n pop
ular advocate lie. Too. served Iov
some time a. C'@rk and Master IT.
Equity He was tond OF scienuac sat-
jects. 10 which he devoted as much
thought a. = his profession lie
died over twenty years aga. leaving
Tot er enemy behind him
Kemp =. Bait became a member
Of this bar IN lg54. after studying
law four years under his father. Hon
VIM II Battle. and Hon : r phil
lips. while he was teaching in the
University as tutor OF mathematics
He was introduced 10 the people of
Wake as the partner Of quentin Bus
bee, with whom lie practiced about
two years. He then practiced alone
until the rrm Of X l.. & Il II Battle
was formed IN the fall OF g.. In 1866
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served as suoh until 1865. in which
year he became a OF the
firm OF W. II Battle x Sons. He gave
most OF his time. while a mcmDe Of
that arm, to corporation practice He
had been a m OF the Secession
Convention and introduced. and had
passed. in that body the charter OF
the Chatham Railroad Company. af-
forwards merged into the Raleigh and
Augusta Railroad Company. He was
made it's first president. and served
in that office till he became public
treasurer. In 1874. he organized and
became the president of the North
Carolina State Life Insurance Com
pany, a corporation which entered
upon a vigorous life during his in
cumbency. In 1875. the state Uni
versitv was revived after tt had SUI
fered a partial collapse. and he was
selected by his colleagues on the board
Of trustees, elected by the Leglsla-
ture. TO raise funds and to otherwise
provide for It's reorganization. In
the next year he was elected presi-
dent and served as such fifteen years.
when he resigned to become Alumni
Professor of History. Having served
H. that capacity for about the same
length of time. he has recently resign
ed his chair, and Will doubtless be
made Professor Emeritus of History.
His intention is 10 complete a history
~ tIo ITni*EarSitl on trh3nh he tG nnXN
engaged, and afterwards write a his
tory OF the State. OF the name in
which he has performed the varied
duties OF his profession and other call
ings it is hardly becoming for me 10
speak. He is the last survivor of the
LAWYERS who were at this bar in the
years from 1858 to 1861. except my
self.
J.. Kemp Marriott. who came to
the bar about 1855. though strong and
vigorous when | knew him, died just
about the breaking out of the war.
He had not had time to make a name
as a lawyer, but was conspicuous for
his integrity and courage.
VIM. Johnston Saunders passed
from our mid so recently that he
was known, and we'll known. to many
of your readers. Raised partly In
Spain. while his father, Hon. r. NJ.
Saunders, was minister to that coun-
try. and being strikingly handsome
and elegant in appearance and man
ners, he was Familiarity known TO his
many friends as Spanish BILL or IS
Spanish Saunders"-partly, however.
to distinguish him from Col. VIM. J."
Saunders, who was also raised In Raj
eigh. He came to the bar about
1858, and was for a year or two the
partner of Henry w. Miller; but my
impression is that he moved to his
plantation in South Carolina just be
fore the war, in which he rose to the
rank of Lieutenant Colonel. Though
he returned to Raleigh after the war,
he did not resume active practice or
the profession, but made insurance
his principal business. He was fond
of literature, and occasionally wrote
interesting articles for the papers.
Richard Cogdell Badger was the
youngest of all these lawyers who
were in practice here in 1861. In ma
tural ability he was hardly inferior
to any of them. With opportunities
to Judge, from his college days at the
University, | have often thought that.
had he devoted himself to the law
as a~ssiduously as his father, George
f. Badger. had done, he might have
earned a reputation as a lawyer, but
little inferior to his. Taken from the
bar to spend fOur years in the war,
where he attained the rank Of Major,
as Adjutant General Of a brigade, and
after devoting much of his subsequent
years to politics. mostly or the I'M
popular side here, as a Republican.
and dying before he had passed mid
die age. il was impossible for him to
attain to the eminence in his profess
sion to which his talents entitled him.
When he found time to read much,
il is difficult to say; but he vas a
striking talker, and talked well on
almost any subject-learnedly on
some, such as chemistry. which han
been his favorite study at college, and
kindred topic. His public services
were as a member Of the General As
sembly and the Constitutional Con
vention of 1875, and as United States
I District Attorney. He was chosen by
Governor Holden and served as one Of
his counsel In the impeachment trial.
The foregoing were lawyers. many
of them prominent, before the time Of
the close of the war between the
( States. | viii now speak somewhat
less at length OF those who came to
the bar betwee 1865 and 1870.
VIM. H. Battle was a contemporary
Of B. T. Moore from their college days
at the University. where they We're
graduated as classmates in 1920. and
they died within a few months OF
each other. Mr.. Moore was promin-
ar+I- 1rcL or of for the S1rrame Court