The Nevada County picayune., 1921-07-21
RESOLUTION OF RESPECT
 TO CHRISTOPHER C.HAMBy

4CdSoA oA euC " dJ Ut was ueule0 the advantage of a Collegt educati He attended the common schools an donly one session of a grammar school
 At the age of IS he wa employed as brakeman on the Illinois Central Railroad serving in htat capacity until he was 21 years old In the year 1872 he removed to Logan County, Ark, where fo rtwo years he worked on q farm near Bonneville. He then re- moved to Ouachita County Ark. where he remained fo rtwo years and earned his livelihood by teaching school Dur ing this time he studied law, procur- ing his books from the firm of Bum and Bearden at Camden He was ad- mitted to practice law at Camden Il 1876 and after this time he taught school at New Edinburg until the year 1878 when he removed to Prescott and entered upon the practice of his chosen profession
 At the time of his death he was a member of the American Bar Associa- tion. In 1890 he was elected to the Senate fthe State of Arkansas. and at the close of the session of 1891 was elected to Lieutenant Governor and during the illness of Gov. Eagle in the summer of 1892, Mir. Hamby served as governor of the State for four man of the Judiciary Committee, was Chairman of the Democratic State Con vention at Hot Springs in 1904, and was P years a member of the board of Trustees 0 fthe State University. He always took a prominent interest in school matters and was for several years President of the school board in Prescott He was Grand Orator of the Grand Lodge of Arkansas in 1S9O was a Knght Templar, a Thrty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, Demo erat in politics an da member of the Methodist Church
 His fathers name was r J. Hamby and hi mothers Nancy Elizabeth Byers his mother being a descendant of the Randolphs of Virginia
 He died January 31. 1921. He left surviving him his widow, two sons and two daughters
 MT Hamby was a natural leader of
 Strong In his convictions and firm i nthe support of what he con ceived to be right. He never took doubtful course, but was always out spokNn on all public questions. He was a lawyer of marked ability, and while in his youth he was denied the advantages of collegiate education he was always close student, not only of the law, but of literature, language and science. Few men were better informed or took a greater interest ir current events of the day He l. spsed a sham or a Pharisee. On au questions his judgment was sound and no man was more intelligent or emerge tic in the presentation of his cases to the courts He was a fine judge of men no man knew human nature bet ter than he, and to this faculty many of his remarkable leka' victories can be ascribed.
 Therefore be 1t resolved: By the members of the Bar and the officers of the Nevada Circuit Court, that in the death of Christopher c. Hamby, the Bar of Arkansas has lost a lawyer and councillor marked ability great per onal intergity whose keen sense of justice and patienhes and untirins eff orts in the practice of his profession for more than forty years among us, has endeavored him to a large circle of friends and especially othe menl- bers of the Bar.
 That he was man who always had the welfare of the community and of his State and nation, at heart, and by unselfish devotion to his profession and to the duties of citizenship, brought to him large circle of friends to mourn his death.
 Resolved further: That we extend to his family and to his friends out deepiest sympathy, and that a copy of these Resolutions be placed upon the records of the court, and that a cert-