Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-01-11
GREAT JUR|ST To
Be BURIED FROM
BELOVED CHURCH
Onestime YiceuChancellOr Pitney
Worshiped for Fifty Years
at First Presbyterian.

MORRISTOWN, Jan. 11.-F'rom the
First Presbyterian Church, in which ne
had worshipped for more than half a
century, former Vice-C Chancellor Henry
| C. Pitney will be laid at rest Saturday.
Famous ~.jurists, industrial leaders, law
yers and hundreds of the people OF his
own community will listen to h eulogy
pronounced by his pastor, the Rev
William Russell Bennett.
The Rev, William Russell Bennett
will be assisted by the Rev. John Mac
Naughton, OF the Ogden Memorial
Church, Of Chatham. Interment will be
In Evergreen Cemetery.
Though he was nearly 81 years or
age and had been LII for weeks, the
yice-chancellor was still conscious with
in half an hour of his death at u:2O
last night. To the seven children at
his bedside he gave flnal messages and
said thai he had known for weeks h a
death was approaching. He passed
away painlessly with his hand clasped
in that of his eldest son. A complica-
ton of diseases and old age caused his
demise.
He is survived by these sons and
daughters: Mrs. sadie Pitney Johnson.
Frederick B. Pitney, Henry C. Pitney,
IT., Chancellor Mahlon Pitney, John o.
H. Pitney, Miss Mary Pitney and Mrs.
Van Dusen, of Philadelphia.
Sons Elevation His Proudest Day.
1t was given to the venerable vice
chancellor to live to see his son Mahlon
elevated to the CHARACTERISTIC of New
Jersey. He had said that that day
was the proudest of his life.
He retired four years ago at the close
of a. brilliant career Upon the nch
The banquet given in his honor in New
York upon his retirement was one OF
the greatest professional tributes ever
paid q jurist in the United States.
Vice-Chancellor Pitney was born in
Mendham, in Morris County, on
January 10, 1927, and was the son of
Mahlon and Lucella Cooper Pitney. He
was graduated from Princeton College
In 1S4S. His early prediction was for
the law, and he decided to make that
his profession, taking up his studies
with Theodore Little and ira c. White
head, both of Morristown. Mr.. Pitney
was admitted to the bar as an attorney
in July, 1851, and as a counsellor in
November, 1854. He engaged In the
practise of his chosen calling in Nor
ristown and soon won recognition and
built UP a practise. so great was his
ability.
Given to Scientific Studies.
His tastes ran largely to scientific
questions and to the law of equity, and
his prestige became so pronounced that
he was appointed prosecutor of the
pleas of Morris county in 1852 and
served in that capacity FIVE years. He
acted as an honorary advisory master
for a time, and on April 8, 1889, Chan
| cellor McGill appointed him v~ice-chan-
cellor, q position he retained until about
five years ago, when he retired from
the bench to seek retirement In rest.
Some years after he was prosecutor
of the pleas Mr.. Pitney devoted his
abilities to the trial of important water
and land title cases in the Supreme
Court and Court of Chancery. He was
counsel in many of the greatest watei
and land suits tried in the upper courts
for years, at times being associated witt
or opposed by the most able lawyers
of New Jersey. He became known as
one of tho foremost equity lawyers
The late Chancellor Theodore Runyon
made him one of the first ten masters
in chancery appointed in New Jersey
and he took testimony in very i'm
portant cases, and his reports to the
Chancery Court were commended by
brother lawyers.
Life Member OF WashipgtoD Association
Mr.. Pitney was a life member of the
Washington Association of New Jersey,
which has charge of the old house that
was General Washington's headquar-
ters in Morristown during the Revolu-
tionary War.
Mr.. Pitney was president Of the Ma
tional Iron Bank and the Morris Aque-
duct, both Morristown institutions, and
he was a member of the board of man.
! ayers OF the Morris County Savings
Bank since the institution was estab-
lished. He was also a member of the
Sons of the American Revolution.
FUNERAL OF WILLIAM YECK.