The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1914-09-29
A Short Sketch
Of Joseph Storey

Next to Chief Justice John Marshal
perhaps the work OF Justice Story has
mad more influence in crystalizing the
laws and shaping the power and scope
OF our higher courts than that of any
other man.
Indeed, in many departments of the
science the work of Justice Story sup.
plies to practitioners more help than
that of the great Chief Justice.
Justice Story was born in Marble.
head, Mass, September s. 1879, at
the time when the question whether
ours was to be nation or whether
1t was to remain a colony of Great
Britain, was being debated by bullets
and bayonets and the souls of men
and women were on fire.
Young Story was given the discip.
line of all the schools and after grad.
uating from college studied law. At
tention to his masterfu abilities was
soon awakened and at the age of 80
he was appointed by President Madi-
son justice of the supreme court.
He was the youngest man to receive
that honor either in our country or
in England. He held the place with
ever increasing honors for thirty four
years. He died September 10, 1S45.
1t will be seen by the above dates
that more than half his life was spent
as justice of the supreme court.
He had all the attributes o. a cold
scientific, exact lawyer; he had, more
over, the perfect finish of the schol-
ar and we suspect that within his
mind he he'd half dormant the facul-
ties which, in other fields, would have
made him famous in literature and
that these faculties gave to his de
cisions a rhythm which IN places
makes it fascination to read them.
We wish that some one who knew
her had written an enlightened analy-
sis of the character of his mother.
She must have been great woman.
When he was born she was daily
reading the war news and the prob
able life or death of the young ma
ton was uppermost in her thoughts,
and the other great qualities of her
soul were held in restraint, but when
the son of Judge Story was born,
though he was given thorough edu.
cation and studied law, he turned to
literature. He was writer, poet and
sculptor. His poem, Cleopatra" is
one of the most striking and power
full productions in our language.
When the wonderful galaxy of writ
ers that made New England so fam
Gus during the last century-Emer-
son, Hawthorne, Longfellow, Whit.
tier, Lowell, Holmes and the rest are
named-Story, the younger, is gen
orally omitted, but that is doubtless
due to the fact that he early went
abroad and made his home thereafter
in Rome.
But this is diversion, Justice
Story for a generation stood among
the very highest of all the great men
of our country, and held his place OF
right.
The ablest lawyers felt it an hon
or to present case before him and
this included the ablest of all the
states, from Maine to Louisiana and
in that company were some of the
foremost men of all this world.
He stamped his record imperiih
ably upon our laws; hardly ever Is
| a great cause presented to any higl
court of our country that his wisdom
| is not invoked and his dictum follow
ed, and his life and life's work vii
be an inspiration to young lawyers
| as long as our great Republic main
tains it's place among the nations
| of the earth Goodwin Weekly.