Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-10
BAR EULOGIZES
C. H. BACKENSTOE
Dauphin Co. Association Pays
Tribute to Fellow Member;
Funeral Services Are Held

Funeral services for Clayton II.
Backsnstoe. attorney and prominent
member of the Dauphin County Bar
Association. who died Thursday eve
ming at his home, 1928 North Second
street, from ptomaine poisoning,
were held this afternoon at the home.
The Rev. Dr. George Edward Hawes,
pastor of Market Square Presbyterian
church, officiated. Burial was made
at the Paxtang Cemetery. The fol-
lowing intimate friends of Mr.. Back
nestoe acted as pallbearers: William
Jennings, Warwick NJ. Ogelsby. Will
liam NJ. Hahn, A. Carson Stamm, Geo.
r. Barnett, John Hoffer, Frank NJ.
Eastman and Franklin j. Roth.
The Dauphin County Bar Associa-
ton of which Mr.. Backenstoe was a
member and eX-president at a meet
ing this afternoon paid the following
tribute TO him:
Bar Pays Tribute
AS a lawyer he was careful, dill
gent, cautious and studious. and
gave painstaking consideration to all
matters which were submitted to his
professional custody. In his inter
course with his brothers of the bar he
was always mild, kindly, courteous
and affable, and while he never in
tentionally gave offense, yet neither
did he falter in the vigorous main
tenance of his clients rights. He was
a persuasive advocate before the jury
and overlooked no opportunity to pre-
sent his clients cause with vigor and
effect. In his arguments before the
hn Nsn al fnir
full. In business affairs, he was con-
servative, and his judgment invariably
sound and valuable. In all the walks
of life his integrity was untiinching
and his fidelity unquestioned.
His association with his fellow
men was unassuming but frank, and
he had the faculty, without any ap-
unostentatious sincerity and geniality
of his intercourse, of making and
holding a multitude of friends. With
him a generous friendship no cold
medium knew
His habits were exemplary. and
he was a most companionable and
genial associate. lie loved to com
mune with Nature. He was an ardent
angler with rod and reel, and one OF
the greatest pleasures he enjoyed was
the frequent and extended fishing eX-
cursions into the wilds of Canada
where he was a general faVorite alike
with companions and guides.
He was in his fifty-third year with
hopes and ambitions before him, but
Death like an untimely frost has
taken him away.
His family has lost an affection
ate and considerate brother: the bar
iovable, capable and conscientious
member. and the community an in
fiuential and valuable citizen.
For the purpose of expressing our
deep grief at the severance, not only
of our professional relations. but OF
our personal ties, and for the loss both
of a companionable associate and
brother, as we'll as of expressing our
sincere sympathy to the members Of
his family, this minute is presented. -
Some of the most prominent men,
bers of the Dauphin county bar placed
verbal flowers at the shrine of Mr..
Backenstoe's memory al the meeting
this afternoon of the united bar. The
speakers included William NJ. Hahn,
Mr.. Backenstoe's law partner, James
A. Stranahan, Col. Fred NJ. OFT, A.
Carson Stamm, John c. Nissley and
James Kinney Jackson. The latter
represented the younger attorneys.
President Judge George Kunkel pre-
sided. Following the meeting the
barristers attended the funeral in a
body.