The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1911-12-22
JUDGE ALDRICH Dead.
Judge of Second Circuit Buried in
Home Village-Distinguished
Career.

body or Judge Rc0erC Alurlcn, VINO
passed away about o'clock Tuesday
morning at Florence, after an extend
ed illness. Judge Aldrich had been a
life long resident Of South Carolina,
having been born in Barnwell county
in 1874. He was we'll know through
out the State, and especially among
the members of the bench and bar,
who have admired him for his fair
decisions, and his high professional
standing. Judge Aldrich was elected
Judge Of the second circuit in 19O8,>
succeeding his cousin, Judge James
Aldrich. ~
Judge. Aldrich is survived by four;
children, Mrs. Dilliam Egleston, of
Hartsviile, Mrs, F. G. Tompkins and
Mrs. D. G. Ellison, Of Columbia, and
Miss Roberta Aldrich, Of the College
for Women, Columbia. He was the
first to die Of family Of eight chill
drena and :isa survived by one brother,
Mr.. Alfred. -Aldrieh Of Barnwell, and
six siste4s, sMrs. Rosa Aldrich. OF
Greenwood, Mrs. n. W. Richardson, of
Columbia, Mrs: john %A1fen and Mrs
II. L. Bonham, of Anderson, Mrs. ". H.
Duncan, ,-of Barnwell, and Miss Rebec-;
ca Aldrieh;: !: Of Indianapo1is: Mrs AID
9ich, who #as Miss Sophie Bonham,
died about 16 months ago. They had
one son, Mr. James Hagood Aldrich,.
who died several years ago.
The interment took place in Barn
well, following the funeral services
in the Church Of the Holy Apostles,
of which Judge Aldrich was senior
warden.
His Father a Judge, Also.
ssAldrich, Robert, lawyer, orator, and
statesman, the son Of Alfred Proctor
and Martha Aver Aldrich,'' says
Hemphill's Men of Mark in South Car
olina, "was born in Barnwell, South
Carolina, September 25, 1914. His
father was a lawyer, at one time COM
missioner in equity, adjutant in the
Florida war, a member Of the State
legislature, speaker of the South Car
o1ina house of representatives, and a
circuit Judge.
s'The Aldrich family in America are
of English stock. They early settled
in New england and number among
their members poets, jurists and many
men of prominence.
Lieutenant Colonel.
young Aldrich was boy Of large
physique and good health, who entered
into the ordinary sports of hunting,
fishing and the like. His early life
was passed on a plantation near the
4own of Barnwell. He attended the
private schools of that day and at 13
became a student at Kings Mountain
Military school, at Yorkville, OF which
Micah jenkins, the distinguished Con-
federate general, and Asbury Coward,
later superintendent of the South Car
olina Military academy at Charleston,
were principals. Later, he studied at
the Arsenal academy at Columbia, and
at the Citadel academy at Charleston,
which institution he left at the age
of 19, to enter the Confederate army,
spending in camp and field the years
that would have been spent in the COL
lege class room. He was first lieu
tenant and adjutant of the Sixth reg
iment, South Carolina cavalry, under
Wade Hampton, and was division in
spector general upon the staff of Major
General P. NJ. B. Young, of Georgia,
with the rank of lieutenant colonel,
in the army of Tennessee, which po-
sition he held at the close of the war.
At Bar and in Politics.
''In 1866, he was admitted to the
bar; and he commenced the practice
of law at Barnwell, in January, 1867.
Colonel Aldrich was one of the most
distinguished lawyers in the State. He
was presidential elector on the Tilden
and Hendricks ticket in 1876 and on
the Cleveland and Hendricks ticket in
1884; a member of the house of rep
resentatives of South Carolina, from
1876 to 1878; State senator from
Barnwel1 county, 1S94-1904; a men,
ber Of the constitutional convention of
1895, as a delegate from BarnWell
county, and temporary chairman upon
the organization of the convention.
''1n January, 1906, he was elected
nroei1on+ of +ho Cou+b Toro1ino Por