The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-10-14
JUSTICE HARLAN DIES
 POOR MAN BUT RICH IN
 HIS COUNTRIES ESTEEM
Senior Supreme Court Jurist Passes Peacefully Away
 This Morning at Ripe Old Age of IS
His Enduring Fame Will Rest the Strong Dissenting Opinions He Gave Last Spring in the Standard
 Oil and Tobacco Trust Cases

When he returned here two weeks ago he was in good health in every way except for the increasing weak ness. Any illness attacking him would have quickly made inroads and this is the explanation given by his physician for the severe effect of the attack of bronchitis of last Tuesday.
 When the end came, his wife, two daughters and two sons, at the bed side, were not aware of it. It was simply a case of gradually approach ing death, caused by the slowly de- creasing action of the heart which finally stopped so easily that there oI the sleeper.
 No arrangements for. the funeral have been made.
 Associate Justice Harlan sat on the bench when the October term of court opened. Monday, but on Tues day was confined to his home with a cold which gradually grew worse.
 The aged juriSt won extraordinary fame, last spring when in strong opinions he dissented from the re- -mainder of the highest court in the Standard Oil and Tobacco Trust de- were amending the law by reading the reasonable" into the Sherman antitrust Law.
 Harlan was born in Boyle County, Kentucky, June l, 1883. He prac- ticed law in Kentucky and was a Whig Candidate for Congress in 1859. In 1861 he raised the 10th Kentucky infantry regiment, and served under General Thomas.
 Owing, to the death of his father in the spring of 1863, although his name was before the Senate for con firmation as a brigadier general. he felt compelled to resign; was elected attorney general by the Union Party, in 1863; and filled that office until 1887, when he returned to active practice in Louisville; was the Repub- lican candidate for Governor in 1871; publican Convention of his state in 1873, for the vice-presidency; in 1875 was again the Republican candidate for Governor; was chairman of the delegation from his state to the Re- publican National Convention, in 1sf6; declined diplomatic position as a substitute for the attorney gen. eralship, to which, before he reached Washington, President Hayes intend ed to assign him; served as a mem Der of the Louisiana Commission; was commissioned an associate jus Court, November 2s. 1877, and took his seat December 10, the same year, received the degree LL D., from Bow doin College and the University of Pennsylvania: was member of the Boring Sea Tribunal of Arbitration which met in Paris, in 1893: was vice-moderator of the general assem- bly, of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, in 1890. For more than 20 years, he was a lecturer on constitutional law in George Washington University.
 The death of Justice Harlan gives President Taft the duty of selecting his fifth appointee to the supreme bench, which will make a majority of men on the bench selected by Taft. In addition, he elevated Associate Justice White to the position of Chief Justice, which, in reality, makes six appointments by President Taft. The court is composed of nine members.