The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1908-06-18
Kenosha Bar Holds Memorial Ser.
vices in Honor OF Late Chas.
QuarIes and Judge Fish
FISHER PRAISES QUARLEs
Court Directs That Resolutions Present
ed by the Members Of the Bar Be
Placed On the Record and
Adjourns Court For Day

Inc members OF Jn0 h0nOSnd county
Bar and the Bar of the First Wisconsin
Judicial Circuit Court held memorial
service at the opening of the June
term of the Circuit Court Monday
morning at which memorials to the
memory Of the late Judge Frank M.
Fish, for eleven years judge of the Cir
cult Court and Charles Quarles were
read. The committee in charge of the
service was composed Of James Cava-
nagh, Peter Fisher and John G. Slater.
Mr.. Cavanagh presented memorial
to the late Charles Quarles, Judge Slater
one to the memory of the late Judge
Fish while Mr.. Fisher paid tribute Of
love and affection to the memory Of
Charles Quarles. The two memorials
and the address of Mr.. Fisher we've ord
cred spread on the minutes of the court
after which the court adjourned for the
day as tribute to the honored dead
In speaking of Charles Quarles, Mr.
Fisher said:
emo one, much less myself, can hope
to adequately portray through the medi-
UNI of language, the sterling qualities
and characteristics Of Charles Quarles, q
lovely specimen Of the human race-a
gem brighter than the brightest jewels
of earth.
cit was my good fortune to know
him for the last fifteen years Of his life,
and for the last ten years quite init
mately. It took but a short time to
discover that he stood in the very front
rank of his chosen profession and that
he was so recognized by the entire bar
Of this state and by all who came in
contact with him. He was no copyist.
His mode of procedure in the great
cases in which he was employed; his
manner in the court room; his fair
treatment of all opponents; his thought
and expression were each and all his
and his only; Individually and original
| ly, abided with him, were part of his
vary nature as he cheerfully labored in
the boundless fields of the law-like
Marshall, Webster, or Evarts, he had
style all his own-concise, cutting, driv-
| ing conviction to the hearts of all who
heard Understanding soundly, argument
convincing and unanswerable, when he
departed he left vacancy in the ranks
| in this state which cannot be filed.
GAS a citizen of this great republic
he had few equals and no superiors.
Quiet, unostentatious and scholarly,
statesman, not a politician in the ordi-
nary acceptation Of that term at the
present day, but clean cut expounder
Of the constitution and laws, lover of
fairness and justice, hater Of insin-
certify and hypocrisy, positive and firm
in his convictions, never luke-warm or
half hearted.
"But it was as lawyer that he soar
ed far above the heads of the ordinary
practitioner. He grasped and dissected
an intricate law problem with seeming
intuition, often in one short sentence
he would point out the crucial or vital
point in a case, and then through great
learning and research fortify the same
no point of Importance in his cases
OOOoOOo C1AO OIL uU4uy I'll LILO SlCdU Illuu
no time was spent upon matters not
bearing upon the issues involved-not
otherwise could his frail body have car
ried him through SO many years of
ceaseless toll.
GAS a friend there were none truer
or better-of his great store Of learning
he was always ready and willing to
help all who appealed to him, and they
were many-none were turned away
without receiving comfort and inspira-
ton from this great lawyer and noble
mamie made them feel at home with
him as he assisted them in solving their
difficulties.
AS an attorney representing client
he knew nothing but fidelity, faithful
ness and the very best service Of which
he was capable, and which could be
honorably rendered-to the young law
yer he was friend ever ready to in
struct and counsel.
"Again no truer husband or loving
husband ever lived. To the wife and
the children his loss is beyond calcula-
ton. His love, his faithfulness, his
kindness, his charity, his wisdom, to
them can never be replaced
"Charles Quarles is gone from the
! scenes of earth, but he has left legacies
not found among the ordinary and
worldly assets of men. He has taught
us and left with us lessons of honesty
and fairness, fidelity and perseverance
charity and simplicity paternal love
and faithfulness, stern adherence to
conscience and duty which shall bear
fruit in the coming ages-a heritage of
far greater value, surprisingly more
productive of good to the coming gen
erations than the assets of men usually
listed upon county court Inventories
'EAnd in addition he has left the re-
suits Of his great and diversified learn
ing safely bound in the Wisconsin Su-
preme Court reports, covering the period
of his active practice at the bar for
the use and guide of future generations
none sounder-none more worthy of
the emulation Of the yOunp nrao+;4;oro