The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1920-12-23

ed Meanwhile, the county of Brown
had been detached from the circuit.
Kewaunee county had been created
and attached to Manitowoc county for
judicial purposes. Fond du Lac had
become the metropolitan city, and be-
sides the circuit was heavily demo-
cratic.
Judge Taylor while a good political
leader on principle was no great hand
to canvass for his personal advantage
and the result was as stated. If he
was in any way affected or chagrined
he never manifested it. He stepped
down from the judicial rostrum to the
ground floor and at once resumed his
practice as if nothing had happened to
interrupt it. In the fall election the
people of Sheboygan sent him again to
represent them in the state senate, in
which body he served during the ses-
sions of lS69-7l. In the year 1872 he
removed to Fond du Lac where he en-
tered into partnership with j. NJ. Gil
lett and upon the death of Mr.. Gillett
which occurred about two years later,
with George Il. Sutherland, later cir
cult judge in Milwaukee. All this time
and until 1878 he was in active prac-
tice. In that year the Legislature
added two additional judges to the
Supreme Court and he was one of
those selected. In that court he re-
maincd till the day of his death, hay-A
ing been elected to a second term.
When called to that high position no
man was ever SO prepared by practical
life as a lawyer In addition to his
large and continuous general practice,
he had been district attorney, member
of the legislature, senator for four
years, and for eleven years a circuit
judge. He was college trained,
scholar in the best and most practical
sense and above all devoted to the sci
ence of the law. An English judge has
said: "The law is a jealous mistress
and brooks no rival" There was no
room for jealousy in the life and con-
duct of Judge Taylor. He devoted
every power of his strong mind, every
item of his great knowledge, every eff
fort of his great energy and untiring
industry to her services
1t was as a compiler and annotator
of the statutory law that he was most
successful and best known. He was
one Of the three commissioners APP
pointed by the legislature, who comr
piled,s arranged and published the
statutes of 1858, In 1871 he compiled,
arranged, annotated and published the
statutes then much needed and known
as Taylor's Statutes, private enter
prise. Later he was one of the COM
mission appointed by the state to ar
range and publish the Statutes of 1878,
which work was completed about the
time he was called to the supreme
bench.
The late u. 5. Senator William F.
Villas who was associated with him in
accomplishing that revision said of
hun;
"lIe and l worked much together
He was the old well stored
lawyer, surcharged with a life of
study, long professional and judicial
service and specially expert in judicial
knowledge as one of the revisors of
twenty years before and the compiler
of later edition Yet the
just precedence of these circumstances
he never manifested in anything but
their value to the duty before US,
.. Any man more free of the
mere pride of personal opinion less i'm
patient of correction, more ready to
receive any benefit of another'S
thought, so that it truly informed his
own, never encountered.
Judge Taylors most distinguishing
peculiarly was the constancy
and intensity Of his devotion to the
labors of the law = To the law
he addressed a capacity for labor un-
excelled and rarely equaled No task
was formidable to his simple steadfast-
ness. Throughout all the hours of the
day, da, after day, week in and week
out, year upon year without excite
ment and without ceaSing he bent his
mind to the tasks before him, toiling
on with each to It's complete and salts
factory accomplishment and entering
upon the next as readily as he finished
that in hand Relaxation and recrea-
tion were nothing to him holi-
days and vacations were merely inter
ruptions."
The great number and magnitude of
the things accomplished by Judge Tay-
lor has drawn this paper out to a
greater length than intended and those
things that affect Manitowoc and its
people most closely are yet unsaid.
TO be continued)
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