The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1912-10-17
JUDGE SEWARD
PASSES AWAY
AT WATERFOWL LAST SATURDAY
FOLLOWING A STROKE OF
APPOPLEXY.
The JUDGE WAS UNIVERSALLY LIKED
His Death Will be Mourned THROUGH
out The Third judicial Circuit
Funeral Held OF lesday.

Hon. Charles X. s = q, Judge Of
the third judicial circl : passed away
at his home at Water = l last Satur-
day morning, folloWins . stroke of ap-
popleXy. The judge ! : not been in
very good health for S, months, but
his condition was not : lsidered ser
ious. He retired in l 3 usual health
on Thursday night an, Is found un-
conscious the following morning.. He
was removed to the hospital at once,
but did not recover consciousness be-
fore passing away the following day.
The news of Judge Stewards death
was received with sincere sorrow in
BroOkings, where he was so well
known. He had been upon the bench
hardly two years, but in that time he
had gained the respect of all as a fair
and able judge.
The funeral was held at Waterfowl
Tuesday, in charge of the Elks. Mem
bers of the bar from every county in
this circuit We're present and attended
the service in a body. The following
attended from here: Attorneys PhilO
Hall, f. w. Cuckow, j. p. Cheever, w.
NJ. Cheever, Olaf Eden, Albert Mat
son and NJ. f. Culhane and Clerk of
Courts Hanson and Register of Deeds
Bagley. The our house here was
closed during the afternoon as a mark
of respect to the deceased.
We get the following obituary from
the Public Opinion:
Charles X. Seward was born Janu-
airy II, 1855 on q farm about a mile
from Marengo, H., on the Seward fam
lily homestead acquired from the Unit
ed. States government by his father,
Ephriam Seward. OF his brothers and
sisters, Belle Seward, Maggie Seward,
Frank Seward, Will Seward and H. R.
Seward, Belle, Frank, Will e. f. Sew
ard and Grace alone survive.
His education was acquired in the
DuDlIO SNlOOlS at va ClSO, IN WI
college of Vinton, Iowa, and he studied
law in the office of Charles e. Fuller
at Belvidere, Illinois, and was admit
ted to practice as an attorney about
November, 1879, and on January 90,
1880, he stepped off the train at Water
town and commenced the practice of
law. On May 81, 1882, he was united
in marriage to Miss Mary j. Fox, a
sweet beautiful lady and to them four
children were born, Marian Louise,
Harlan, Chas. Prentice, and Hazel of
whom the last two survive. On May %,
1897, he suffered a bereavement in
the death of his wife from which he
never recovered and continued to
mourn her untimely end until the last.
His career as an attorney from the
beginning was unusually brilliant and
successful and up to the time of his
elevation to the circuit bench he stood
in the front rank of attorneys and
councillors Of the state.
He was often honored by the people
as a public servant, having been speak
er Of the house Of the second session
Of the legislature in 1891, and was a
member OF the house in 1901, and sena-
tor from Codington county without
opposition in 1909. He was mayor of
the city of Watertown in 1890, states
attorney four years-1S96 to 1900, and
in 1910 he was nominated circuit judge
and elected to that office without op-
position in the general election and
was serving IN his first term at the
time of his departure from this life,
October 10, 1912.
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