Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-12-05
RESOLUTIONS
TEEN OF PRAISE
FELLOW MEMBERS OF DENVER
BAR PAY TRIBUTE TO MEM
DRY OF J. II. MURPHY.
FEEL LOSS kEENLY
Noted Labor Lawyer Was Native Of
WapelIo County and at One Time
Locomotive Fireman on
Burlington Here.

Burlington Here.
| The subjoned resolutions of respect
! over the decease of John H. Murphy,
| late attorney for the Western Fedora
| ton of Miners and the Brotherhood
of Locomotive Firemen, tell in. glow
! ing terms the high esteem in which
| the learned lawyer was held by his
fellow members Of the bar al Denver.
Mr.. Murphy will be remembered by
! many Ottumwans as the son of James
Murphy of south of the city. He was
born on the farm close to the city
limits on the south of the river and
in the vicinity OF the Michael prop
erty not Jar from the Shaul GENE
terry. The late John Murphy rose
from the ranks of labor to a lofty
pinnacle in the legal sphere of Colo
RADIO and the west. Reared on the
farm near Ottumwa, he, at about
eighteen years accepted employment
with the Burlington and ultimately be-
came a locomotive fireman. 1t was at
this work he was engaged at the time
of the strike in 1883 and left with the
strikers. Going to Salt Lake City,
Utah, he took charge of the railroad
shops Of the Union Pacific and left
the position because he would not
discharge certain sympathiZers in
strike at the place. During the years
he worked at labor he studied law and
was admitted to the bar OF Utah in
1895 at the head of class of sixty
applicants. His accomplishments in
legal affairs are matters of history in
the labor world, especially SO in the
west.
The Resolutions.
''Since the death of John H. Muir
ply, attorney for the Western Fedora
ton of Miners, there have been many
tributes paid to his memory From
many of the local unions of the or
CARNATIONS have come resolutions de-
ploring the summons Of the mes.
senger that ended the career of
man who was loved and honored by
all who admire grand and noble
character. On April ii the members
of the bar association Of Denver met
in the district courtroom of Judge Fl.
c. Riddle where the five judges of
the district court sat at the opening
of the term OF court. The members
of the bar association had assembled
to pay their tribute of respect to de-
parted members, and the eulogies de-
livered upon their worth and merit
was of type of pathetic eloquence
that touch the heart strings and lift
mems thoughts to loftier heights than
the common plane where men contem-
plate the sordid things of life.
w. F. Hynes, the associate and law
partner of the lamented Murphy,
broke the silence of the gathering by
introducing the following memorial in
testimony of the worth of the man
who had endeared himself to the Ia
Dor movement Of this country:
i desire TO offer the following me-
mortal to our late brother, John H.
Murphy.
1--WE are called upon to commemo-
rate and deplore the passing of our
brother, John H. Murphy, which oc-
Cured at his home in this city, March
s. 1908.
In the death of Mr.. Murphy this
association loses not merely mem
Der of the bar, but man of national
reputation i'll his chosen field of work:
not merely lawyer, but a searcher
after truth; not merely a user of
rhetoric, but thinker of the first
order; not merely man, but hui
manltarian. While he was satisfied
of their brotherhood in immortality he
earnestly sought to extend the same
relation to their morality
Suffering pains and agonies of a
crr Int hxl j
by an active and energetic mind, he
was III mis- very weakness a veritable
tower Of strength to those with whom
he came in contract.
While the Catholic Christian re-
ligion was his spiritual solace and
comfort for things which he deemed
eternal, he looked upon the law as
'ae source from whence must flow the
remedies for the temporal, and as one
OF IL ministers he ever conscientious
~ sought to have it rightly construed
ana applied for the betterment of all
mankind.
he waA the legal idol of two large
ASSOCIATIONS OF the worlds workers
and justly SC
Ills domestic life was exemplary
HIS social life was without blemjsh
His professional life an examine In
the bereavement C his widow and
daughter, let It beknown that the
sympathy is theirs, md let copies of
this memorial be presented to them
to the supreme court q the state of
Colorado, the circuit aud district
courts OF the United Stats for the
district OF Colorado, and the district
court Of the second judicial district al
the state Of Colorado.
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