The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-01-12
LAWYERS HONOR WOODY
Members of Profession Re-
we're Name of First Judge
of District.

The following resolution was adopt
ed by the bar association Of the Fourth
judicial district yesterday in honor of
Judge Frank II. Woody, who died De-
cember Is, 1916. The resolution was
drawn by a committee consisting of
Judge John F. Patterson and w. l..
Murphy, appointed at special meet
ing Of the association the day after
Judge Woody'a death:
ION the 10th day Of December. 1916.
Frank II. Woody passed from mortal
life. On that day an unusually long
and uncommonly active career was
suddenly concluded, not after the grad
ual weakening Of a robust body. nor
following the long breaking down of a
strong and virile mind. but rather like
the slowing and stQppage of an en-
CINE when fuel is no longer fed into
its fires.
1.-THE amazing physical strength and
endurance possessed by Judge Woody,
his ability to Withstand the rigorous
ordeals Of pioneering; to resist the at
tacks Of disease and even forestall for
so long the assaults Of time itself, was
only commensurate with and equal to
! the wonderful vitality and strength of
mind, which kept his mental faculties
clear and active to the last hour Of
his eighty-three years.
| I'm this community where Judge
Woody lived for nearly sixty years
he took no more Of the attributes OF
an institution than of an individual
Upon the scroll Of his wonderfully re-
tentive memory was written every
phase and incident Of the development
OF western Montana: every fact and
factor which has entered into the up
building Of this city and its vicinity
from tho earliest beginnings of civili-
cation here until the last hour of his
life. have passed. in orderly succession
before his eyes and found permanent
record in his memory.
1.-THE loss to local history in origina
sources Of information caused by Judge
Woody's death is not possible of cal.
culation. but it can be truthfully sale
that with him died the accurate RECORD
of many facts Of highest historical
value. which, during his life. he never
found time to commit to writing. On
Of the great benefactors OF this com
monwealth has passed away.
His service to Montana was not o
that spectacular kind which leaves be
hind great industries and works o
tangible construction requiring tn
outlay of large amounts of capital, bu
rather in that essential and necessar!
service which paved the way for thes
, later developments. Born In the stat
of North Carolina at a time when tn
hardest Of the veterans Of the Revo
, luton were yet among the living
when the stories of New Orleans an
, Iundy's Lane were being recounted b
!, actual participants therein. he earl
turned his face toward the setting su
!, and took up the battles of peace an
!, civilization against the forces of bar
renness and savagery in the rough will
Iierness of the Rocky mountain table
lands. He came to western Montan
:, for a temporary sojourn in the fall G
:, 1856, and took up his permanent resi-
dence in this valley in 1850, and live
:, here continuously thereafter for fifty
six years. Thus at the time OF hi
death he was a Montana Pioneer {
Pioneers. the sole historian and ey
witness of the drama in which tn
missionary priests and the Frenc
voyagers We're the only white actor
His eye glanced farther back into tn
i dim beginnings Of Montana civiliza
N ton than that of any other man. II
Is indomitable will and tireless har
~ placed the chief part in laying tt
foundation stones of Montana's spler
- did growth and development and II
commonwealth and it's inhabitan
80 must ever remain his grateful debto
ut Is not the legal profession alol
that feels the loss of this sturdy GA
but in view of the fact he was for loI
the venerable dean Of active pract
: TONERS within this judicial distrie
. that he strove valiently as judge a,
counsel to clarity the law. to upho
the standard OF legal ethics and to e.
nance the repute of our professi'
among the people. be it
Resolved. BY the members Of I
be Fourth Judicial District Bar associ