The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-06-06
City Council Pays Tribute to
Former Alderman From
First Ward.
PRAISED FOR LONG SERVICE
Members Declare that Dead Alderman
Gave City the Best of His Faculties
at all Times and Wanted to Be Right
Rather Than Popular With People

The city council paid tribute to the
late Alderman James H. O 'Brien al
the meeting held on Monday evening
and resolutions were passed praisine
the former alderman for the active
part he had taken in the business OF
the city. The committee in charge OF
drafting the memorial was made up OF
Aldermen Roberts, Hegeman and Wer
ner and the report of the committee
to the council was as follows:
To the Honorable Mayor and Com
mon Council of the City of Kenosha
Wisconsin.
Gentlemen:
We your committee to whom was
delegated the matter of drafting
resolutions on the death Of the late
Alderman James H. O'Brien, respect
fully present and recommend the adop-
zion of the following resolutions:
Whereas, It has pleased Almighty
God to again make vacant another
chair in our council chamber and in
His inscrutable Wisdom to take from
our midst one whose best efforts were
always directed to the advancement Of
the city he so long represented, orr
esteemed friend, associate and CO.
laborer, the dean of the common coun-
Gil, James Henry O'Brien, who depart
ed this life on May Goth, 1912, and
Whereas, We his fellow members of
the common council of the city Of Ke-
nosha, in common with the citizens of
this city, which he loved so well,
know and appreciate that in his death,
the city of Kenosha has lost staunch
and true friend; an active, efficient
and honest official; an official who for
seventeen years and more served the
people faithfully and well as an alder
man of the first ward; an official whose
r1pened years and long experience
made him especially fitted as a coun-
cillor and adviser; an official who was
genial and lovable man, with a keen
sense of wit and humor and rarely
fascinating personality which made
him hosts of friends, and friends and
friendship were very dear to him; an
official whose ambition was to be right
rather than to be popular, to do jus
tice to all, to perform the duties of an
alderman to the best Of his ability,
letting his official reputation rest up
on the character of his work, and
Whereas, We recognize in him one
esteemed equally as a true steadfast
friend and as an alderman whose
death comes as personal sorrow to
each of US and sincerely regret the
loss Of his fellowship, fully realizing
that the places which knew him here
will know him no more, but with the
consolation that his record will live
and will remain and, with his many
good qualities, will be fresh in our
memory and better than words Of
praise will exemplify the man and Of
fetal who so long and so faithfully
served the city and his fellow men.
Therefore Be It Resolved, That we
deeply deplore his demise, and extend
our sympathy to his bereaved wife
and children; that we as members Of
the common council feel the loss of
his counsel and advice and will miss
him greatly in the various fields Of
our activities; that as slight token
of our respect and esteem for our de-
ceased friend,
Be 1t Further Resolved. That the
desk and chair of the senior alderman
of the first ward, in the common coun-
Gil chamber, and the entrance of the
city hall be draped in mourning for a
period of thirty days, and
Be 1t Further Resolved, That these
resolutions be entered Of record upon
the minutes Of the common council of
the city Of Henosha and that copy
signed by the mayor and attested by
the city clerk under the city seal be
sent to the members Of the family of
the late James Henry O'Brien and a
copy thereof to the several papers in
the city of Kenosha for publication.
Geo. Roberts,
J. Hegeman,
n. J. Werner,