Newark post., 1919-11-05
OLD DELAWARE HAS
MATCHED FINE BROOD
Blue Hens Chicks Make En-
virable Record in Legal
World

Now that Delaware College is call
ing for help to meet it's obligation to
the youth of the State, who in ex-
pected numbers have come this year
to it for training, it is we'll to consider
what she has done in the past. More
than seven hundred have been gradu-
ated there in the fifty years which
have passed since the re-opening in
1869. And it is fine brood she has
hatched
During this period figty-eight grad
yates have become lawyers and six of
them have become members of the
judiciary. Some of the group have
served the State as Attorney General,
Senator of the Unit~c States, Repre-
sentatives in Congress, members of
the Legislature, and otherwise. All
but sixteen of them practiced in this
State.
William R. Martin GS4D, now de-
ceased, became President Judge of the
Circuit Court of Appeals for the First
Circuit of Maryland. Charles M. Cur
It's (1S7O, is the Chancellor of the
State, and was at one time Citl Solici-
tor of Wilmington. Victor B. Woolley
! (18S5), was one of the Associate
Judges of the State, and is now one of
the Judges of the United States Cir
cult Court of Appeals for the Third
Circuit He published a valuable and
exhaustive treatise on Delaware Prac-
tice in two volumes, and it has been
accepted as authoritative. T. Bayard
Heisel (1SSS), is one of the Associate
Judges of the State, and before going
on the bench, assisted in preparing the
latest revision and codifcation of the
laws of Delaware. George N. Davis,
(1S9S), was elected and served as Cir
cult Judge in the State of Oregon, and
is now Assistant City Solicitor of Will
mington. Hugh M. Morris (1S9S), sue
ceeded Judge Edward G. Bradford as
Judge of the United States District
Court for the District of Delaware
Thomas Davis (1875), and William
Watson Harrington Qs95), served as
Deputy Attorney General; Lewis G.
Vandegrift QS75), as United States
District Attorney; William T. Lyman
(1S77, as Judge of the Municipal
Court; William H. Heald (18S3), and
Albert F. Polk (1SS0), IS Representa-
tive in Congress; J. Harvey Whiteman
(1SS5), as Secretary of State; John
w. Huxley Q902) is at present City
Solicitor of Wilmington; and Richard
s. Rodney was Mayor of New Castle.
In the earlier days, ana prior to
1868, about one hundred students be-
| came lawyers and some of them won
distinction. Of those Who practiced
this profession in Delaware were
these:
Edward G. Bradford, who was a
lne,nber of the first Grass to graduate
, and Judge of the United States Dis
trict Court for the District of Della
) ware to the time of his death in 1885;
William c. Spruance, wno became one
) Of the Associate Judg>-- OF the State;
and Anthony Higgins, who represent
: ed the State in the Senace of the Unit
ed States, and was United States Dis
trict Attorney; Alfred P. Robinson
who died in 1866, who was Secretary
of State; Samuel Guthrie, William G.
Caulk, Capt. Joseph M Barr, William
: |. Causey, Elias S. Reed, John o. Slay
and H. Frank Hazel.
On the whole, therefore, the lega
,utput of Delaware College is very
creditable in quantity as well as quail
,, ity and the sons of Old Delaware have
, well maintained the high reputation
OF the Bar in Delaware for learning
and ability. In the hour of her neec
her sons and their descendants will
rally to her aid that she be not Grip
8 Piled in doing for others what she die
for them.