River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1916-01-13

Last Sunday afternoon occurred
the funeral of Judge Allen P. Weld.
His death is the passing of one of the
most CONSPICUOUS figures in Pierce
county. For over 20 years he had
served as County Judge and for a
much longer period had been the
Clerk Of the City Of River Falls In
fact he had served continuously in
that office since the organization of
the city, save for a period when he
was absent. And while in that Of
flee his services to the municipality
have assumed much broader range
than the mere confines Of the Clerks
office He has been the city's coun-
s9lIor in legal affairs, surveyor, ar
chitect and expert adviser in the wa
tarWorks and electric light depart
ments.
Judge Weld came Of the choisest
New England stock. His father,
Professor Allen H. Weld, was an ed
ucator Of note in the east, and first
Regent Of our State Normal School.
His mother was a woman Of intellec-
tual strength, who lived to a great
age and found diversion in her de
Ginning years in learning new foreign
languages. In his ancestry Judge
Weld was heir to the choisest tradi-
tons and forces Of New England's
life. Behind him were generations
Of forebears VINO were given to
simple living and high thinking:
men and women who feared God
and loved their fellow men; who
were Industrious and estimated life
and duty in terms more priceless
than dollars and cents. To this her
itage Judge Weld was splendidly
true, and this, more than circum-
stances or environment, gave the
key to his life and character.
He was born at North Yarmouth,
Me; spent his boyhood in New Eng
land and Maryland, as his fathers
professional duties. took him here or
there, and was graduated from Dart
mouth college in the class of 80 at
the age Of 20. Since then his life has
been practically Unidentified with the
west and with Pierce and ST. CroiX
counties in particular, where his
father had preceded him. His law
studies, began in Hudson, were COM
pleted at the Albany Law School. A
year thereafter was spent in his pro
fession at Rome, N. Y, when he re
turned to this city, where his home
has continued until his death.
His interest il educational affairs
his sympathy and helpfulness to the
State Normal school in its founding
and through all of the years of its
history, with the lessons from his life
Of great value to young people were
finely set forth in an address before
the student body of that institution
last week by Professor L. H. Clark,
who had over 20 years of personal
reco.lections upon which to draw.
At the funeral service Sunday Judge
Geo Thompson of the District Court
set forth in eloquent and impressive
words the public service which Judge
Weld had rendered in municiple af-
fairs and as County Judge, extolling
the integrity of purpose, the sense
of obligation to justice and right,
and the full conscientious measure
of performance which he brought to
the discharge of all public duties.
To his friends he was an object of
admiration because of the splendor
of his intellectual endowments. His
was the order of gifted intelligences.
The very chiselling of the features,
the CLEAN of the eye, and the dome
like brain proclaimed the fact that
a mind of unusual order was resid-
ent within. This, with his full height
and commanding figure, made him
a marked man in every assembly
where he was p. es ent. These intel