The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-10-20
THE PURDY MEMORTAM

On Monday afternoon court ad-
journed to permit the members of
the Wayne County Bar to give ex-
preston to the high esteem in
which they held the late Presiding
Judge, George S. Purdy. Every
member of the bar was present, and
gave expression to their regard for
the deceased jurist. AS most of the
addresses were made extemporane-
GUS we were unable to obtain copy
of any excepting r. M. Stocker's,
which we print below. The follow
ing resolutions were adopted:
The Bar of Wayne county, desir-
GUS of expressing its unfeigned sor-
row because of the death of Honor
| ty-one years was a member there
of, and who supplemented this by
service as President Judge of the
22nd Judicial District, from Janu-
ary, 1894, to the time of his death
on August 81, 1909.
Coming to the Bar at the age of
thirty-four years, with large and
extended experience in business af-
fairs, keen knowledge of men, and
mind well stored with legal prin-
ciples, he rose rapidly in his profess
sion to prominence, and had at the
time of his election to the Juugeship
an extensive and lucrative practice
His sturdy integrity, broad sympa-
thy for those in financial or person.
al trouble, and his manifest interest
in the general welfare of men,
whether rich or poor, won for him
merited respect and confidence from
all who knew him.
AS a lawyer, he was fair, able and
aggressive, and as Judge, he en-
joyed an enviable reputation for his
knowledge of legal principles and
sound reasoning far beyond the
standard of Common Pleas Judges,
and his decisions have rarely been
changed by appellate courts.
He never aspired to be a leader,
and was ever unobtrusive and mod
est in all his associations. 1t was
said of him that he possessed a
large allowance of Common Sense,
that so often proves a priceless gift
in the safe construction and inter-
probation of laws. This also enable
him always to take broad views of
personal and official duty. Recog-
nizing the limitations of his sphere
in life, he lived up to it's limit, and
was content in the reflection that
after all, he does best who best per-
forms his duty amid the environ
ment in which fate DEGREES his
course. A busy life is always
fraught with longings for some other
way supposed to be Elysian, but
Judge Purdy exhibited no uneasy
desire for new ways; he was con-
tent to pursue the clearly defined
path of duty, wherever IL might
lead; whether it lay over the shin
ing heights called by Tacitus the
precipices of glory, or through the
more quiet wales of an humber, but
generally more useful career.
Both as a practicing attorney and
as a Judge, he held his friends as
with arms Of steel. He had also
great capacity for securing new
friends. He never resented a wrong
aimed at himself, but by his kindly
manner, disarmed his enemies and
won them to him as steadfast COM
panions; nor was he critical of the
faults of others, and if he made any
observation touching the frailities
of others it was always tempered
with charity.
His name will long be revered
among the legal fraternity and his
death keenly felt by those most
closely associated with him.
In order therefore to show it's ap-
probation of his admirable qualities
and to preserve his memory the Bar
does now resolve that a copy of this
minute be sent to his family and that
the Court be requested to give it a
place among the records.
H. WILSON,
A. T. SEARLE,
F. P. KIMBLE,