Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1915-08-19


son in memory of the late j. S. Trip
of Prairie du Sac They read as fol
lows.
Resolutions introduced
it Res No. 49, S.,
Relating to the death of Honorable j.
Stephens Trip.
J.Stephens Trip was born in Duanes
burg, Schenectady county, New York,
July S, 1928. He was a grandson of
Ezekial Trip, noted Quaker speaker
during the Revolutionary War. In his
early years J. Stephens worked on his
fathers farm, and attended district
school during the winter months. At
the age of eighteen he entered the
Schoharie Academy, teaching school
part of the time to secure means to pay
his expenses. He continued in the AGA
denny, part of the time as tutor, until
1850, when he entered the law office of
Judge Charles Goodyear in Schoharie,
New York, and read law until June,
1853, when he was admitted to the
bar. In November, 1853, he removed
to Baraboo, Wisconsin, entering into
partnership with Giles Stevens,
afterwards Judge Stevens of Reeds
burg. In 1854 he vent to Sank City
and formed a partnership with Cyrus
Leland which lasted for about two
years. Thereafter excepting for one
lyear, when he was in partnership with
S. S. Wilkinson, he practiced alone. In
1863 he commenced doing banking
business in connection with his law
practice, but in 1887 he quit the practice
of the law and confined his attention to
banking.
Mr.. Trip was postmaster of Sank
City, Wisconsin, from 1854 to 1861,
town clerk of Prairie du Sac for TWEEN
ty years; president of Sank City village
for eight years; president of the village
of Prairie du Sac, and member of the
Sank county board of supervisors much
of the time for thirty years, and sever
al times it's chairman. He was mem
Der of the Wisconsin Assembly in 1862,
Having been elected as WAR Demo
crat"
Mr.. Trip was first married in 1857
to Fannie w. Hallit, who died in 1865.
> In 1874 he married Nellie W. Water
bury of Prairie du Sac by whom he had
i one son who died in infancy. His Sc
J cond wife died in 1893. He leaves two
sisters and a brother living in New
g York
r A public spirited citizen. Mr.. Trip
: gave active aid to many enterprises
n and rendered many services of public
: character to which no allusion has here
j. baen made. In the quiet and judicious
| giving of money and services for the
! relief of those in real need, for the good
: of his county and state, he was liber-
al.
He was the first citizen of his home
! city. Loved and respected by friends
and neighbors, man of the highest
: honesty and intelligently performing
: his many private and public duties with
scrupulous care, he will be missed by all
who knew him To his inheritance of
thrift and frugality Mr.. Trip added a
g correct business judgment and large
capacity for business through which he
g was able to accumulate fortuness of
a over half million dollars. For years
! he had decided generally on some plan
/ of beneficence to his fellowmen, finally
e devising the grand scheme embodied in
l. his will that practically his entire for
: tune should be devoted to the upbuild-
n ing and usefulness of the University OF
q Wisconsin Thus the results of all his
n labors finally go and are devoted to the
good of his fellow men. And it was
d not from what he has bestowed, alone,
e that mankind may hope to profit by
!. his example. To all possessors of great
n wealth he has pointed out the way and
r said: go thou and do likewise :" His
n memory will be cherished as long as our
f institutions shall endure and his labors
e and sacrifices will serve as a constant
J. influence for better thoughts, better
e words and better deeds to the genera
Is tons who shall share in his bounty and
e move forward upon the beneficent
's foundations he has so generously pro.
e vided. Now, therefore, be it
9 Resolved by the senate, the assem-
bly, concurring. That in the death of
!, Honorable ]. Stephens Trip the state
;. has lost one of it's most useful and re-
J. spected citizens and man whose exam
Il pie and career may well be an inspira-
ton to others and which will ever re-
: main cherished memory to his family
and many friends; and be it further
Resolved, That this resolution be
spread upon the journals of each house
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