Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1907-03-15

taken violently i'll with the grip. JOS
eph H Sawyer, his court reporter, was
with him and wanted to call ply
sican but the judge would not listen to
it. His wife, who was in Florida, was no.
tilted of his condition and came to Mil
waukee Immediately and intended to
take him to Florida for the balance of
the winter, but the physicians advised
her to go to their home in this city,
which they did
Judge Dick when elected to the Judge
ship. had large law practice. He often
refused to take a case where he thought
his client was in the wrong.
He was superintendent of the Beaver
Dam schools for nearly a quarter of a
century.
The funeral of Judge Dick will be
held Monday afternoon at O'Clock and
will be Masonic. of which order he was
an honored member.
Came to Wisconsin in 1856.
James j. Dick was born in Westtield,
Chautauqua county, \. y, September 8,
1886. He received his elementary edu-
cation i'll the common schools and the
academy of his native town. He located
in Beaver Dam in 1856 and from then
until 1859 was teacher in the high
school. 1t was during this period that
he commenced to study law, to which
he devoted all his spare time.
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to enter the Albany university, from
which he was graduated in 1861 and ad-
mitted to practice in all the courts OF
the state. He Immediately returned to
Beaver Dam, where he formed part
nership with the late H. W. Lander,
which continued about three years. Att
er the dissolution of this partnership,
Judge Dick continued to practice until
his elevation to the bench.
Father of Beaver Dam Schools.
Judge Dick may be justly called the
Father of the Beaver Dam public
schools" for their present high standard
of efficiency is largely the result of his
labors and foresight, when in his ca
pacity of superintendent of schools for
upwards of a quarter of a century, he
acted as a pilot of those institutions
and by the aid of his experience and abll-
ity, developed them slowly but surely
into such a condition as to equal any
public schools in Wisconsin. Although
engaged at that time in the practice OF
law, he placed the prosperity and hap
piness of the youth of the community
above his own personal affairs, and al
ways found time to visit the schools and
take an active interest in the welfare of
the students. He bent all his energies
to placing the school system upon solid
foundation; and the city schools today
show how we'll his part of the work was
accomplished.
Judge of Thirteenth Circuit.
Judge Dick continued to act as SUI
perintendent of schools until 1896, when
he resigned to accept a new and higher
position, namely, that of judge of the
Thirteenth judicial circuit of Wisconsin,
to succeed Judge Warham Parks. By
virtue of his impartiality, honesty and
knowledge of the law, he has been re-
peatedly elected to this Office, by deci-
sive majority of the voters of the four
counties of which his district is COM
posed.
Judge Dicks last decision was rem
dered during this present illness, the
famous Horizon marsh drainage case.
He decided that it should be drained,
thus retaining $4,000 acres of land.
His wife is a daughter of the late,
William Drown. one of the donors of
tha Williams Free library