The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1908-12-13
JUDGE JOHN CARRIER
!. ON BRINK OF DEATH
Former Justice OF Supreme
Court and Noted Lawyer De-
clared to Be Dying
Associated in Every important
Case in California Courts in
Last Forty Years

BERKELEY, Dec 12.-The condition
of Judge John CARRIER noted jurist and
one of the foremost lawyers of the
state, who is on his deathbed in his
home at 2706 Claremont avenue, re-
mains the same according to the state
ment of his physicians tonight. He
suffered relapse two days ago and
his vitality is fast ebbing away.
Low fever. brought about by series
of complications. combined with old
age. have resulted in a breakdown
from which Drs. It. c. McCleave and
II. C. Moffitt of San Francisco have said
there is no hope of recovery.
Members of the family, who have
been summoned to the bedside are:
Mrs. CARRIER, and four children. Mrs
Whitney Palache. Joseph B. CARRIER
ham, and three grandchildren, John
CARRIER and James and Helen Palache.
FRIEND OF ROOSEVELT
friend of President Roosevelt, Sen
ator Beveridge and the late Mark
Hanna, and for 40 years associated on
one. side or the other of every i'm
portant case in the California courts,
former Supreme Court Justice John
CARRIER has ranked as leader of the
|.bar in California.
President Roosevelt offered to make
Judge CARRIER a commissioner the
Isthmian canal commission This was
|.in F,ehruary,s 190t.- Judge. CARRIER is a
gold democrat of the old school, and
had he accepted the post he would
have been on the commission with six
republican engineers.
BORN IN VIRGINIA
John CARRIER was born in, Staunton
Va, and was a graduate of the Uni
versity of Virginia in mathematics,
Latin, chemistry, natural philosophy
and modern langua ges. He COM
menced his business life as a civil en-
sfneer. and as such was employed by
the Virginia Central railroad. This
occupation he followed about two years
and then studied law and was adj
mitted to practice in the state of Vir-
ginia. From the state of Virginia he
canfe to San Francisco and went into
the, office of his uncle, Joseph @. Bald
win, who was afterward one of the
justices of the Supreme court of Cali
fornia. -
Judge CARRIER went to Santa Cruz
and there practieed law about one and
a half years. From Santa Cruz he
went to Nevada City, Cal
He married Miss Juliet White,
daughter of Judge John White of Ala
bama. in 1855 Or 1866 After his mar
riage he went To Austin, New. There
he formed a. partnership with. Colonel
Harry /. Ihornton.
The two went TO Hamilton. New,
during sthe. White Pine mining ex-
diteraent land practfeed law there.
While living in Hamilton Gar
her was elected justice of the SUI
preme court gof Nevada. The other
members of the supreme court of
Nevada at this time were ~. G. Whit
man and J.. T.. Lewis.
on November Z. 1872, Judge CARRIER
resi- signed his position on the supreme
bench of Nevada and went TO Phoebe,
New, to take part in the great mining
suit of the Raymond Ss Ely minin g
company VS. the Keynes.
After the trial of this suit Judge
CARRIER and 4Ceionel Thornton again
entered partnership. and returned to
San Francisco. the law firm then be-
ing CARRIER & Thornton. Thomas B.
Bishop was .afterward taken into the
firm under the name of CARRIER, Thorn
ton & Bishop. Colonel Thornton re-
tired from the firm on account of i'll
health and Judge Boalt took his place
in the firm. (Which thus became Gar
Der. Boalt & Bishop. Judge CARRIER
withdrew from the firm and formed
q partnership with Judge Eugene Gar
Der and his son, Joseph b. CARRIER.
Upon the death of Eugene CARRIER
Harry T. Creswell became member
IF tf.a firm