Norwich bulletin., 1922-07-01

| in the superior court here Fri day morning before, Judge James H. Webb. There were quite number of the attorneys of the county present and a few relatives of sthe departed law yeirs. Judge Gardiner Greene had a chair beside Judge Webb and President William H. Shields of the County Bar association conducted the memorial ser vice and called first upon the commit tee for resolutions upon the late Jo- seph T. Planning of this city.
 Joseph T. Tanning.
 Attorney Arthur M Brown read the | resolutions which had been prepared by | the committee consisting of R. M. Doug l John c. Geary and Arthur M Brown
 Tribute by R. M. Douglass.
 Attorney Roderick M. Douglass deliv- cred the tribute to Joseph T. Tanning, 1 speaking in part as follows
 Again we are called upon to publicly pay a tribute of respect to the memory of a deceased brother in our profession, the late Joseph Thomas Tanning, who for nearly forty years practised his pro- fesston in our midst and under the eyes of his brethren of this bar, and who during all those years was ever true and faithful in all his associations with bis fellows in and out of the profession
 It is our duty to our departed brother to accord to him in the fullest measure our truthful and heartfelt sorrow by ex-I pressions of regret and sadness for the personal loss and the loss to the bench and bar of the state, and especially to his brother lawyers of this county who knew him longest and best. , For the moment we cease from our usual daily vocation and concentrate our | thoughts upon the past associations with our brother who has gone. Memory brings him back to us. We see him :n | his neat attire, his dignifed carriage his smiling countenance, his intellectual face, his modest and retiring demeanor, his whole-souled and sincere greeting. his kindness and his perfect observance of the rules of propriety in all his rela- tions and intercourse with his fellow men, his sterling integrity and marked sincerity in his relations with opponents | at the bar and with the court.
 1 Joseph Thomas Tanning. only son of Patrick and winifred Skelly Tanning, was born in Providence, Rhode Island, 1 April 30, 1860, and died at his home, l 31 Lincoln avenue, in this city. on the
 morning of Feb. 2. 1921, age 61 years. I When he was but two years of age his
 mother died and thereafter he lived | with his maternal grandparents in Nor wich. making his home with them until the time of his marriage. Although he
 was born in Providence, Rhode Island l the fact that he came to Norwich at the age of two might well give him the right I to claim the title of a native son. Sure ly in his long and faithful term of public | service for the town and city~he earned
 a right to that title.
 The death of his beautiful young moth
 CT when scarcely twenty-eight-her in-
 fant daughter dying with her-resulted
 in the boy and his sister being brought
 to the home of his maternal grandpar-
 ents, the plain but comfortable farm. house on a site overlooking Trading
 Cove. There the subject of this eulogy
 was tenderly reared. having the example
 of devoted grandparents, hard-workine
 and frugal, as were their neghbors il
 was home of healthful surround lngs
 of refinement. and of simple pleasure:
 for the growing boy who did his share
 of the farm chores as thousands of New
 England boys have done who later hay,
 made their mark in the world.
 At that period his father was a skill
 ed mechanic in the large plant of tht Providence Locomotive Works and was highly respected man.
 The subject of this memorial, when i;
 boy, entered the West Chelsea school anC
 he forged ahead in his studies so rapid ly that when he had reached the nex
 to the highest grade in the High stree building he was able to do two years work in one entering the Norwich Ere . Academy in the June following hi 1 twelfth birthday in April. In 1878 h : graduated from the Norwich Free Acad 7 emy as the first classical scholar in hi class. After graduating from the, Acad 3 emy, he entered Holy Cross College a 9 Worcester, Mass. where he. graduated l T 1879 with high honors, and in 1883 re l ceived the degree of A. M from that 1T I stitution. He had taken up the stud r of law and was admitted to the Ne
 London County Bar September 27. 18s : and after brief period of practice z ;, ! Willimantic, Connecticut, returned --t e l Norwich. where he opened an office an S continued in active practice until h q sudden death on Feb. 2. 1921.
 z While the youth was living the sim2 - and uneventful life of other boys of h g age, still he had the advantage when n mere lad of visits to well to do come
 tions in Philadelphia. and I have near
 him tell of the inspiration which he d
 rived from those adventures of his bc. N hood, and his chance to see the histor " State House and the Liberty Bell. 1t Of his record for scholarship at u ir Academy you have already been told r. the youngest member of his classy
 graduating with the honors of first cla Id sical scholar and of winning the me re als in Latin and Creek His brillia I'd record of scholarship continued duril a. his college years at Holy Cross, al ne when he finished. it was as leader Se his class, winner of medals and ho h. ors, among which was the Crompt- he gold medal, the most prized reward m the college course, while his alma ma-
 conferred upon him the degree of A. ed Four years later Holy Cross gave hi ok the degree Of Master of Arts for co to spicuous ability.
 Gentlemen, you win recall without a, Se suggestion of mine the courtly mann9
 the polished language, the cleanliness rt speech. the difference to all women-e ru pecially to elderly women, to poor W men-wfich marked the quiet. IInobtr llo sive daily life of our late brother. IT me assure you, these were no accidel 1T Here in America we are apt to pay it y attention to birth, to ancestry, to here dy ity-although we cannot be unmind
 of their effects. On the maternal sj ia Jospeh T. Tanning came from a Ii At which gave an Earl of Stafford-stat' pm man and leader-to his country; whi lat gave Governor Hanley to our own sts mp of Illinois; line all the members
 which apear to have been doing son
 thing worth while in the world-some
 greater some dn a lesser degree. F SS great-great-aunts-th Ladies Staffor n their neighbor called them-were not rs- as musicians MT. Tanning himself W he an accomplished pianist. One ancest es. aunt on the Cahill line devoted a life ed over ninety years as lay sister of