The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-08-19
ELOQUENT TRIBUTE
TO THE MEMORY Of
JUDGE SHARPE PAID
Resolutions of Respect
Adopted at Meeting Of
Bar of Circuit Court of
jefferson County

a. d rSeiy-dttenued meeting of the
Bar of the Circuit Court of Jefferson
county held in the court room of Judge
Pugh yesterday fitting tributes were paid
the memory of the late Judge Henry A.
Sharpe
Resolutions respecting the memory of
the distinguished jurist were read by
Lieut. Gov Nathaniel L. Miller. chair
man of the committee appointed to draft
the resolutions. They were unanimously
adopted.
Judge s. D. Weakley presided AMI
among those who spoke were: Ex-Gov
Emmett O'Neal. Frank S. White, Jr;
John P. Glover, Richard H. Fries, John
D. Strange w. Marvin Woodall, c. P.
Beddow, f. p. Macarthur, Borden Burr
and Judge Dan A. Greene
The resolutions ADOPTED follow:
RESOLUTIONS
Resolved, that the members Of the
Bar of the Circuit Court of Jefferson
County, Alabama, desire to express their
profound sense of the great loss which
the judiciary. the bar and the general
public have suffered by the death of
Henry Augustus Sha, pc, late presiding
judge of said court With a feeling of
sorrow at the termination of his worl.
we record our appreciation of his learn
ing and ability, his Judicial temperament
and sense of justice, his patience and
unfailing courtesy, his purity and gentle
ness, his fairness and courage and the
affectionate regard i'll which he was
held by all of us VIII, were privileged to
represent before him the causes OF
clients, whether great or humbiA
BORN IN MORGAN COUNTY
He was born in Morgan county, Ala
bama, June TO- 1913: received a literary
education from the schools of his county
and was continuously thereafter up to
his death a student both of books and
of men: he was graduated with the de-
gree of L. t.. D. from the Cumberland
university at Lebanon, Tenn, in 1876, and
began the practice of the law in his ma
tive county; became register in chancery
in 1871; represented his county in the
Alabama legislature In 1S7S-79; removed
to Birmingham and entered the practice
of the law here in 1881. forming a part
nership with James Weatherby. ESQ.
under the firm name Of Sharpe & Wealth
erly-
Upon the creation of the city cour
of Birmingham in 1864, he was appointed
the Judge thereof This court at that
time was given jurisdiction over civil
and criminal actions and chancery
causes. He organized that court, and
1891. when the office of associate judge
was added thereto. Thereafter he was
its senior judge until tho expiration OF
his term of office in 1898, when he was
elected an associate justice of the SUI
preme court of Alabama. Upon the ex-
piration of his term of office MEM
Der of the supreme court in 1904, he de-
clined, though urgently solicited, to
stand for reelection am riiss-ed the
active practice .at Birmingham with
Nathan T.. Miller, Esq, under the firm
name of Sharpe & Miller.
JUDGE OF CITY COURT
"In 1907 the city court of Birmingham
was again enlarged by adding two
Judges and after this bar had endorsed
him and petitoned for his election. he
was elected by the legislature a judge |
of said court Later. upon the consolda-
ton of the circuit, chancery, city and |
criminal courts, under the name of cir !,
cult court. with 10 Judges, he became |
one Of its judges, and was by his asso- |
ciates elected presiding Judge thereof, |
and retained this nosition until his !
death on the 10th day of August, 1919 /
N'During all these years he went in |
and out before his people with a purity /
of life and a faithfulness in the dis |
change of every trust committed to |
him. ever growing in the affection, es- |
TEEN ana commence or his people /
whom he so efficiently served
HE had rare gifts of mind and heart !
broadened and enriched by a knowledge |
of people in all walks of life. He was |
sympathetic and kind modest and gem |
tie, unawed by power. and never tempt |
ed to Cypress, never forgetting that |
the thing sought was thes justice of !
the cause. and never losing himself !
Or the cause in the brilliancy or zeal |