St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1915-02-24
HOWE APPOINTED
Widely Known St. JOhnsbury AttOr-
ney Named United States Dis
trict Judge for Vermont.

On Friday last, President Wood
row Wilson sent to the United
States senate the nomination of Har-
land B. Howe of st. Johnsbury to
United States district judge for the
district of Vermont to succeed the
late Judge James l.. Martin. This
nomination followed a conference of
several leading Vermont democrats
| in Washington and so is supposed to
represent the will of a majority of
those men. The nomination was con-
| firmed by the senate on Mon
day and Mr.. Howe early in
his forty-second year will as
sumo the responsible duties of
Judge of the federal court. While.
Mr.. Howe was a candidate he refused
to enter an active contest for the hon
or which makes his choice the higher
honor for him. The other candi-
dates for the place, among Vermont
democrats, were Charles D. Watson
of ST. Adams, Thomas Maloney of
Rutland and Harry G. Shurtleff of
Montpelier.
Mr. Howe will relinquish a large
practice that yielded him consider
ably larger income than the salary
of $4,000 a year and expenses that
the offer of district judge pays. He
does not know just how soon the
commission will be issued and he will
begin the duties of the Office. Mean
while he will arrange for his law
business and finish his work as a
member of the commission named by
Gov. c.. w. Gates to recommend
more simple procedure for the courts
of Vermont. He hopes to finish this
task during the present week.
HarIand Bradley Howe.
Harland Bradley Howe, son of
! Worcester T. and Rosaline bradley
Howe was born in ST. Johnsbury,
Feb. 19, 1873. He lived until 13
years old on the Bradley farm and
then went to Lyndonvil1e with his
parents and graduated from the COM
mercial course of Lyndon Institute.
He had also learned the trade of har-
ness-maker but an attack of fever
disabled him from following this
trade and in accordance with his
mothers wishes he began the study
of law with the late George w. Ca
hoon of Lyndonville. In 1891 he en-
tered the law department of the Uni
versity of Michigan and took the
compelled him to stop. He then
made arrangements to enter the office
of the Hon. H. G. Ide as assistant and
by conducting collection agency ac-
quired funds SO he re-entered Michi-
gan University and graduated m
1894 with the degree of LIB. He
was admitted to the Vermont bar
the same year and has since been one
of the most successful lawyers in
northern Vermont. Mr.. Howe is a
democrat in politics and was elected
representative from St. Johnsbury in
1908. In 1912 he was nominated
for governor by the democratic party
of Vermont and conducted one of the
warmest campaigns in the history of
Vermont. In 1914 the party by
unanimous vote insisted on his be-
ing a candidate again and although
it was against his wishes he made a
strong fight for his party. In 1900
he married Miss Maybel1e Kelsey of
this town and they have four daugh-
ters, Josephine Elizabeth, Barbara,
Matilda and Harriet B.
From Judge Factory.
The fact that Mr.. Howe was a law
student in the Office of the Hon. H.
G. Ide in this village has led one IA
associated with that Office to write as
follows:
WAS there once a judge factory
in st. Johnsbury?
Among former law students in
the Office of Hon. Henry c. Ide in
this town were Hon. Wendell P Stat
ford, recently judge of the supreme
court in Vermont and now judge of
the supreme court of the district of
Columbia; Hon. William H. Taylor.
recently judge of the superior court
of Vermont now judge Of the supreme
court of this state; and Hon. Har-
land B. Howe, now United States dis
trict judge for this district. And
then there was the law firm of Bel
den, Ide and Stafford of whom
Hon. Henry G. Belden be-
came judge of the district court
justice of Samoa. There were five
judges who came out of one Office.
Really, this is too much 1t looks
like monopoly, and SO a violation of
the Sherman Act. 1t ought to be-
stopped and probably will be.
Among the successful men who stu
died in the. same Office were Hon.
Albro F. Nichols of st. Johnsbury,
senator and county clerk; Henry o.
Cushman, Esq, now a prosperous
lawyer of Boston; George E. Miner,
Esq, president of the Vermont
Association in New York City and
strong lawyer there; Martin " B.
Drew, Esq, a lawyer of Marshall,
Mimi, where he recently died; Will
lam H. Chalmers of Idaho, recently
deceased there, and William N. Ar
mington, now practicing law in Geor-
gia.