South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-09-30

seph county to science, literature and
the arts.
But there was also a practical.
every day side 10 his life. When n
friend who knew OF his scholarly
tastes and studies intimated TO him
that he had missed his calling, that
he should have been the pride of some
great university. he replied. No: that
he priced his procession as lawyer
more than all else. He was indeed a
great lawyer and a great Judge; and it
is a pathetic reflection that, in these
late. ripe years Of his life, he should.
by his growing hardness of hearing.
have been deprived Of the exercise Of
the noble profession he so honored,
and which he so loved above all else.
Judge Hubbard was not an office
seeker. He lacked the arts, and was.
indeed. far above the ways Of the
politician. Yet fro>l the mere force
OF fitness in the man he held many
important public positions. He was
one OF the earliest members Of the
common council Of his chosen city.
and helped TO lay the foundations of
this metropolis on solid ground. This
work also he carried out as city at
torney. A like service he performed
for his native commonwealth as state
| senator His crowning work as a DIT b.
III NlAciA cLNANl NeiS HIS IA NoAnAAA6 III oAA
years as judge Of this and Laporte
circuit court On no shoulders did
| the spotless ermine of justice ever rest
with greater fitness, grace and dignity
than upon his On this august bench
he ceased to be a partisan and had no
! favorites; either as litigants or as ju-
! dicial appointees. He was simply and
| purely the judge Of the court He
ever sought a just judgment, temper
1
| large humanity.
"One who knew our departed broth
er intimately gives this characterize
! ton of his mental and moral traits:
We'll Equipped for Career.
Judge Hubbard was by nature
we'll equipped for a successful lawyer
| and judge. He possessed a keen, ana
| lytical mind, and a sincere love for
the truth, and he probed TO the foun-
| dation { URGE of things in his pur-
suit for exact facts
I" Naturally he inclined TO scientific
studies and he found pleasure and
! satisfaction in them, as they accorded
with the bent of his mind. He accept
| ed what he had carefully analysed
and studied from all sources obtain
| able. end which he found to be in his
! judgment the truth. He gave the same
| painstaking effort to the analysis of
evidence that ne ala In MS work IN MS
| chemical laboratory. His judgment
was usually correct, although Ito err
is human" and mans judgment can
not always be infa,libly certain. But
| his earnest desire was TO obtain exact
| facts and the whole truth, and he was
unsatisied until he made thorough
and patient investigation, and had de-
termined and steeled in his mind the
correct result from his searches and
studies. This trait was greatly bene-
| fetal to the community that he so
ably served as an official. The vast
store of knowledge that he had ac-
quired contributed to his great use
fitness and value
IF the standing Of every bar is
measured by the standing of it's mem
bers, this bar owes very much TO the
life and character Of Bucius Hubbard.
We are honored by his great learning
and the purity Of his life as a lawyer
and a judge. That we have known
him: that he was our brother as a
member of this bar, will we trust,
make us more high-minded, more de-
voted in our duties to the court, to
one another and to the great public
that we serve will make us better
lawyers and better men"