Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-12-09


| feet was all too apparent. near the
| close of his life,-a loss. which TOOK
a toll, that a physique already over
strained could not pay. II the
| thought of the final parting with
| friends on this side gave him pain
| it was, no doubt, in a large measure
| assuaged by the faith that he was
| only passing on to join her, whose life
! had been, in truth, part of his. and
| who had but so recently gone be-
| fore.
"The familiar form of Chief Justice
| Cornish will no longer frequent the
streets of his home city or in his
robes Of Office grace the Courts of
| Justice of this state, nor his CHEEKY
| smile again greet US at the thresh-
hold of his chambers; but his con-
tribution to the Jurisprudence of his
state will endure for all time. and
! his personality and spirit, which the
artist has caught and impaired to the
painted canvas just unveiled, will re-
main an inspiration, not only to those
| of us left behind, but to the members
| of our profession through all the
/ years to come.
! His place among the distinguished
| men of our state rests on solid
! foundation,-a stainless character.
unimpeachable integrity. great learn
| ing, sound judgment, and faithful
service. No page in the book of his
life need be turned down, or any
thing written there blotted out or
| passed over in charity. There is no
| occasion to invoke the injunction, De
i mortuis nil nisi bonum' as to his
\ life. Such human frailties as he
| may have possessed were of the
kind that endeared him the more to
| his friends and in no way marred the
| whole; as false stroke or two Of
| the artists brush in some unim-
/ portant detail is lost sight of in the
| general excellence of the picture.
He laid aside the judicial ermne as
| spotless as when he put it on.
| Until his great sorrow came. it
! seemed as though some years of
| well-earned rest and enjoyment,
with that peace and contentment
which come from a consciousness of
| having run the race. finished the
course, and kept the faith. might
| be his. But the Supreme Authority
willed otherwise. On June oath of
the current year, Leslie Colby Cor
nish, the twelfth Chief Justice of this
| Court, was
Gathered to the quiet west,
| where eternal rest and peace are his.
1.-The Court notes with qualification
| the representative gathering of the
Bar of the entire state, and the many
| friends who have assembled here to-
1 day to pay their respects to the
memory Of our departed Brother and
| former head of this Court. The ap-
| preciative and fitting resolutions of
the Kennebec Bar are received and
approved and ordered spread upon
1 I'D 1f -
| further token of respect, the Court
will now adjourn for the day.
Seated within the enclosure were
Judge Charles r. Johnson of the
United States Circuit Court of APP
| peals of Portland, Justice William
III. Fisher and active retired Justice
Fred Emery Beane of the Superior
Court, Hon. Cyrus n. Blanchard of
I Wilton, a former president of the
Maine State Bar Association, Hon. l..
I. Carleton, president of the Ken
nebec County Bar Association, the
members of the Kennebec Bar and
visiting lawyers from all parts of the
State, j. Colby Bassett of Boston, a
] nephew of Chief Justice Cornish and
a brother to Justice Norman l..
Bassett, President Arthur j. Roberts
of Colby College, and Joseph B. Ka-
hill of Portland the painter of the
portrait.
Mr.. Kahill has won an enviable re-
putation as an artist. He has stud
led in this country and abroad. He
has painted a variety of subjects but
his special work is portraits.
Among the prominent mAh of the
State whose portraits he has painted
are Chief Justice William Penn
| Whitehouse. Governor Henry B.
Cleaves. Governor Oakley c. Curtis,
Governor Percival p. Baxter, Hon.
James P. Baxter. Professors john
son. Chapman and Robinson of
Bowdoin College, Colonel Fred n.
Dow, DIR. Frederick c. Thayer, ].
/ Putnam Stevens and others. His
pictures hang in the State House,
] Cumberland County Court House,
! Portland Art Museum, the Walker
Art Gallery at Bowdoin College and
other public places.