Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-10-17
''Great DiSSenter" Passes
Away After Short
Illness.
JUSTICE JOHN NJ. HARLAN
Sons and Daughters We're at
Bedside When Death
Came In.

washing OcC. TO. - Associate /
Justice John Marshall Harlan, who |
near the close Of his already noted |
career as a member Of the Supreme
Court Of the United States, won
fame as the great dissenter" by his |
isolated opinion in the Standard Oil |
and American Tobacco cases, died of !
acute bronchitis at his home here at
S:13 o'clock this morning. His last
words to the members Of his family
who stood at his bedside were:
goodbye. am sorry have kept
you all waiting 50 long"
Withhim waen hesaid these words
we're his two sons, John s Harlan of
Chicago and John Maynard Harlan,
his two daughters, Miss Laura Har
Ian and Miss Ruth G Harlan.
Justice Harlan apparently was iuI
the best Of physical condition when.
he came home from his vacation for
the op ming Of court. He fe!J an
attack Of coli on Monday night and
on Tuesday acute bronchitis with
f.v-r developed. The illness was
not though to De fatal however, IN
til Thursday
The funeral vii, be held on Tues
day, the Justices pastor. the Rev
DR.. Wallace Radcliffe, of the New
York Avenue Presbyterian Church,
officiating. Interment will be in
Rock Creek Cemetery.
The Supreme Court adjourned inn
mediately after converting today.
Justice Harlan served on the Su-
preme Bench 33 years, 10 months
and 25 days. and had he lived until
next June he would have ecipsed |
the records of Justice Field, who
served "a years, 6 months and 10
days. and Chief Justice Marshall,
who served "a years, 5 months and
5 days.
Justice Harlan was born in Boyle |
County, KY. in 1888. When his
parents christened him John Mar
shall. they named him for g great |
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
in the hope that some day he might
rise to the position which he did hold
temporarily until the oath of office
had been administered to Justice
Edward White.
Justice Harlan was above all things
an independent. In court he was
often an unfiinching minority of one.
Styles of dress would come and go,
but the Chief Justice never deviated
from his long black frock coat and
SLOUGH hat in winter and an alpaca
coat and old-fashioned straw hat in
summer. He was simple in his
tastes. His home was always a
country home.
He became a member of the Su-
preme Court without fortune, and
at his death left small estate.
His devotion to duty was notable.
An instance Of this trait was evinced
On Wednesday, when, although APP
Dreciating his serious condition. he
pleaded with his physicians to be
permitted to attend the session of
he Supreme Court the next day,
telling them a case of the utmost I
necessitated his presence
n the chamber.
There was about him a keen sense {
# humor not often met with in
hose of so serious turn Of mind.
lie learned to chew tobacco when
he practice was general in his state G
md others. He never quit it. Once 8
le was referred to in a magazine s
Irticle as having borrowed a chew I
rom Justice White. When he saw s
he article he appeared angry and
aid: "Pd have the fellow who wrote {
hat know it was White that borrow |
d the chew from me-"
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