Norwich bulletin., 1911-01-06
JUSTICE EDWARD B. WHITNEY
 DEAD AT CORNWALL, CONN.
Member of the Supreme Court Bench
 of New York.

Cornwall Conn.,. Jan. 5.-Judge Ed
 ward Baldwin Whitney, appointed to the supreme court bench of New York to fill the vacancy which had been caused by the death of Justice Charles
 w. Dayton, by Governor White on
 December 24th, died at his country residence here this afternoon of pneu- monia. A cold contracted by Judge
 Whitney on his way from Albany aft CT being sworn in brought on congeS-
 tion in the lungs, which did not take a
 serious form until last Saturday, when
 double pneumonia became marked.
 While the patients condition was grave for several days, d fatal ter
 imitation was not looked for, until shortly before the end
 During last night Judge Whitney
 was in a delirious state, which lasted until this noon, when a period of qui- ct came. It was then noticeable that the patient was failing, and the end came two hours later Mrs. Whitney and Miss Emily Whitney of New Ha-
 ven, a sister, were at the bedside. Physicians had been in constant at
 tendance since yesterday.
 The funeral will be held Saturday afternoon at the house, Rev. Edward C. Starr of the First Church of Christ, Congregational, which Judge Whitney attended, officiating. The body will be buried iu the Whitney plot in the Cornwall cemetery.
 Judge Whitney was one of the most prominent lawyers at the New York bar prior to his assuming a judgeship on the supreme court bench of tho first district, which seat he resigned on December 24th and was immediate ly appointed as the late Judge Day tons successor. A descendant of one of the earliest families of New Eng land. his birthplace was New Haven, on August Is, 1857. At Yale univer- sity he was a member of the famous class of 1878, of which President Taft is a member. After a year in the Yale Law school Mr. Whitney finished his course at Columbia Law school, and was admitted to the New York bar. In 1893 he was appointed assistant attorney general of the United States by President Cleveland, and served for about four years While in that office he argued one hundred cases in the supreme court. He obtained the first judicial decision enforcing the federal antitrust Jaw against d man combinat tiOn, the opinion being written by William Il. Taft, who was 8 circuit judge at the time. Judge Whitney has been q lecturer at the New York Law school since 1890, and as d democrat in politics he organized the National Association of Demo- cratic clubs and was secretary at the first national convention. He was a
  justiceship on the bar ticket in the first judicial district in 1906. and al- though endorsed by the republicans and the pro ibitionists the ticket was Hearst in the latter's litigation with l Mayor Mcclellan, and appeared in va rious cases involving questions of of certain laws, in | eluding those of the New York appor- tionment act of 1906, the New York | gas commission law, and the eighty l cent. gas law. He was appointed a l of the charter revision com mission of New York city, but declin- ed. He drew and secured passage of | 8 series of amendments to the code of | civil proceedings and to make laws | more expeditions and effective, and | was chairman of the State Bar associ- l ton committee in amending the prac- tice in surrogate courts. He was a | member of the law firm of MacFar- l lane, Whitney and Monroe.
 Judge Whitney while at Yale was l a member of tho D. K. E., and of the | senior society of Skull and Bones. He ] was contributor to legal and eco homie publications, and was heartily | and in much demand as a ] speaker at Yale alumni gatherings 1 and by economic bodies, in this latter l respect his prominence in civic feforn | attracting attention l throughout the country. He frequent l y appeared as counsel for citizens 1 which opposed legislative ! grants and charters to private corpor | ltions and individuals.
 Judge Whitney was a son of the | iate William Dwight Whitney, profess | sor of Sanscrit language and litera- | iure and of comparative phiLology in | Yale for many years. The father was | | professor of world wide fame. Judge | was married to Miss Josepha, | | daughter of Prof. Simon Newcomb 1 )f Washington. Six children also sur- rive him.