Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-07-13
JUSTICE luRron DEAD
Member Of Supreme Court Expires
Suddenly From Heart FaiIurs-Had
Been in Poor Health Year.

Atlantic City. n. j., July 13.-Asso-
ciate Justice Horace Harmon Lurton.
of the United States supreme court.
died suddenly at hotel here Sunday
from heart failure superinduced by
cardiac asthma He was 20 years old.
The justice, who came here on July
1, was in his usual good health before
retiring Saturday night, and had taken
his customary evening outing on the
board walk. Shortly after midnight
he complained of feeling i'll, and al
tho his physician, DR.. Ruffin, who ar
rived Saturday from Washington, was
Immediately summoned, Justice Lurton
died at o'clock Sunday morning. His
wife and son, Horace H. Lurton, Jr,
of Nashville, were at the bedside. Mrs.
Horace Van Deventer, deushtre, and
her husband arrived last night from
Knoxville, and other members Of the
family were expected today.
The body will be. taken to Clarksville,
| Tenn, for interment. It VAS at that
city. that Justice Lurton began the
practice Of law and lived for twenty
years. Funeral services will be held
there on Wednesday. Chief Justice
White and several associate justices of
the United States supreme court. -
well as many friends of the late asso-
ciate Justice from different parts OF
the country arc expected 70 be present.
- For year or moro Justise LurtOn's q
condition had been serious. hut he in
sisted upon performing hts duties until
last December. when he was compelled
to give up And 20, to Florida with hid
family. At that time Il was reported
that no would resign, but after lghtins
for health until April, ne rsturnsds =
Washington end resnmsd his place or
rms bench to take IN activs~past .ia-s~l
/ OF the busiest sessions ~ the courts
hiztoFy.
!. Tho court adjourned June ~ for the
! summer and ten days ago Justice Lur-
ton went to Atlantic City with his
family, hoping to gain strength in the
salt air.
Born at Newport, Campbell county,
Kentucky. Justice Lurton was attend
ing the county schools when the civil
war began. Tho only II years old, he
enlisted in the confederate army and
became a trooper under the famous
General Morgan. Three years later he
was captured and imprisoned. A per-
sonal appeal by his mother to Presi-
dent Lincoln brought about his release
on parole. and when the war closed he
was studying law at Cumberland Uni
versity. He graduated in 1867 and be-
gan practicing law in Tennessee.
After serving four years as a Ten
nessee division chancellor. he returned
to the practice Of law in 1878 and eight
years later was elected q, Judge Of the
Tennessee supreme court. of which he
became chief justice in 1898. The same
year President Cleveland appointed
him judge Of the Sixth judicial circuit
Of the United States.
AS federal jurist, Judge Lurton was
closely associated with former Presi-
dent Taft, then circuit Judge. and
when the vacancy on the supreme
court occurred in 1909 President Taft
appointed him to the post. He took
office on Jan. 8, 1911, being the fourth
confederate soldier to become mem
Der of the country's highest court.
When it was reported last winter
that Justice Lurton was about to re-
sign. many persons suggested that for
mer President Taft might be offered
the place. 1t was said at the White
House, however. that Mr.. Taft's name
had not been mentioned there.
Some officials said that President
Wilson very probably would not ap-
point member of his CABINET, AZ IT IL
known that he Is particularly anxious
to go thru his term without a change
in his official family.