The New York herald., 1922-05-06
Judge Keogh's Coming Rest.

Al It's annual Qlnner last week the
Westchester County Bar Association
In a set of highly laudatory resolu-
tions unanimously expressed the es-
TEEN and admiration Of its members
Tor Justice MARTIN j. KEoGH, who
will retire with the close Of 1922
from the Supreme Court, Ninth Ju-
dicial district. after twenty-seven
years of notable service on that
bench. The sentiment of the West
chester Bar Association for Judge
KEoGH is singularly shared by the
general citizens of the five New York
counties covered by his judicial dis
trict in degree which must be as
heartwarming to the retiring jurist
as are the respect and plaudits of the
legal profession.
For years before he was elevated
to the Supreme Court in the district
which now embraces Westchester,
Putnam, Orange, Duchess and Rock
land counties Judge KEoGH was
brilliant and successful lawyer. AS
attorney and as Judge he has been
familiar figure among the hundreds
of thousands whom he has served
and with whom he has mingled.
The remarkable place which Judge
KEoGH occupies in the confidence and
regard of the public Of those coun-
ties has not been due alone to the
fact that litigants have been as
anxious to have their suits disposed
of by him as counsel have been to
try cases before him because OF
his sound determination of questions
of both law and fact, his even handed
impartiality and his fine, polished
courtesy. His rare common sense
has commanded wide popular ap-
proval of his hundreds Of important
decisions. while his grave judicial
bearing. coupled with delicate touch
of Irish humor, has won the sympa-
thetic appreciation Of losing as well
as winning ltigants.
But with all the achievements and
honors which have come to him in
his professional work undoubtedly
the most highly priced title which
Judge KEoGH wears is the popular
regard and affection for him as the
citizen and the man in his own county
! of Westchester and the several sur
rounding counties where he has so
long been first the eminent practic-
ing attorney and later the revered
Judge. There is no other citizen OF
the Ninth Judicial district so well
known not merely by sight but by
personal OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES alike
to the greatest and to the least OF
his fellows, to the richest and to the
poorest. to the oldest and to the
youngest.
That the simple and ancient spirit
of American fellowship survives to
this day almost within sound OF the
roar of New York is refreshingly ex-
emplified in the unaffected personal
relations between this man who has
achieved much and the public which
has known him from his aspiring
youth to the summit of his ambition.
To the spacious New Rochelle es-
tate of Judge KEoGH on the shore
of Long Island Sound, where tran
quill scenes and reposeful ease invite
him in his Trailer health and declin-
ing years to abide more and more,
come daily pilgrimages from far and
near. men, women and children, by
dozens and scores, in motor cars,
carriages and afoot, seeking the sage
opinion and the gentle admonition of
the snow haired man whom they all
look upon as neighbor and friend.
This delightful intercourse, tribute
no less to American ideals than to
the man who is honored by them,
may we'll seem to Judge KEoGH the
most cherished of all his laurels in
the serene sunset of his long and dis
tinguished career.