Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-10-21

| CnHrles Loring Andrews, senior
member of the firm Of Andrews, Mel.
SON and Gardiner of this city. Judge
Frank Kingsbury Shaw for many
Of Waterville and Henry Allen
| Priest, practicing attorney OF East
Vassalboro were read and inscribed
| upon the records Of the court and
| attorneys who had been intimately
| acquainted with these three men read
| touching words of eulogy, expressing
| sentiments which were felt by all
! members of Kennebec Bar.
| President Carleton Opens Exercises
At the opening of court at ten
o'clock Wednesday morning. Presi-
dent L. T. Carleton, dean of Kenne-
bee Bar. addressed the court as fol-
! lows:
May it please the Court. I am
instructed by the Kennebec Bar As
| ISOLATION to ask this Honorable
Court to permit the offerings of some
resolutions and to submit some re-
marks upon the life, character and
attachments of three of our members,
recently deceased, Brother Priest,
Brother Shaw and Brother Andrews"
Resolutions on Henry A. Priest
| Upon the reply of Justice J. Dunn
in which permission to proceed was
| given, President Carleton called upon
| Attorney Emery o. Beane, who read
| resolutions on the death of Henry
Allen Priest of East Vassalboro. F.
Harold Dubord of Waterville, who
with Charles A. knight of Gardiner
| composed the committee on resolu-
tons on the death of Attorney
Priest then read a brief history of
the life of the attorney. He pointed
| out that his family was one of the
| first settlers in the town of Vassal-
boro, having taken grant from the
Plymouth Company. He was edu-
Gated in the public schools of that
town and attended Vassalboro
Academy, now Oak Grove Seminary.
He studied law in the office of Eu-
gene Whitehouse of this city and was
admitted to the Waldo County Bar
in April. 1875.
He was a member of Kennebec Bar
Association, of the Maine Bar AS
ISOLATION and was a Mason and
knight Templar. He preferred to
remain among his fellow townsmen
to practice his chosen profession and
to enable him to do SO entered into
business to increase the limited
revenues which he might expect from
the practice of law in a small town.
town in any possible way and many
times gave it the benefit of his legal
ability. He died August %, 1928, at
| the age of 81 years, after having
been engaged in the practice of law
| for As years.
Speaks Of Frank X. Shaw
Similar resolutions upon the death
of Frank Kingsbury Shaw were in
! troduced by Attorney Frank w. Hes
! elton of Gardiner, who with Attorney
| Thomas Leigh of Augusta and Judge
! Charles w. Atchley of Waterville,
! formed the committee Of resolutions
Judge Shaw who died January 10,
1925, was born in Newcastle, Maine
January II, 1859 and was educated
| in the public schools of Waterville
/ and at Colby College, graduating in
the class of 1891. He was admitted
! to the bar in 1886 and commenced
practice in Waterville. becoming the
! Clerk of the Waterville Municipal
court In 1892 and Judge of the same
Court in 1897.
| Judge of Probate Harold NJ. Cook
/ in very able manner spoke of the
character of Judge Shaw in glowing
terms. He spoke of his early practice
! in Waterville and of the great help
which he had received from Judge
|
| lawyer. He said in part:
I'm the first instance I was I'M
pressed with his fairness and in the
second with his helpfulness. We are
accustomed to speak of his court as
one Of inferior jurisdiction. However,
! in his case he did not allow this to
| become an excuse for inferior work.
He made of the tribunal over which
! he presided a real court. Justice was
| the goal of his desires, but the road
along which his mind travelled to
| reach his goal was marked by mile
stones Of judicial decisions. There
| must be not only reason but legal
reason for his DEGREES. The
! bench which he honored, the bar with
which he was affiliated, the commun-
! ity in which he lived are all the better
| for his service"
Fitting Tributes TO Charles L. Andrews
Especially beautiful and most sim
cere were the tributes expressed by
several members of the bar on the
death of Charles Loring Andrews of
this city. The resolutions which were
| first introduced by a committee con-
sisting of o. B. Clason Of Gardiner,
e. NJ. Thompson of Augusta and Har-
vey D. Eaton of Waterville. were
read by Attorney Clason as follows:
MAY 1t Please the Court:
1.-THE committee Of the Kennebec
Bar Association to prepare and pre-
sent resolutions at the October term
Of the supreme judicial court Of Ken
nebec county upon the death of our
late brother, Charles Loring Andrews,
have attended to that duty and beg
leave to present the following report:
Whereas Charles Lorng Andrews,
for more than 40 years an active mem
bers Of the Kennebec Bar, has been
called from the present to the here
after and,
Whereas the members of the bar
wish to express their high appreeia-
ton of his beautiful life, noble char
acter and high standing as a lawyer
and citizen;
Therefore be II Resolved. that in
the death Of our late brother, Charles
Loring Andrews, the Bar of Kennebec
Fcounty has lost one of its most faith
| full and beloved members; learned I'm
| law, safe counselor and advisor, up
| right, honest, Industrious and always
! courteous, he has endeared himself
to the members Of the profession,
while his integrity and high charac-
ter, his readiness and willingness to
aid in any good work as best he
could are heritages that will long be
remembered.
Resolved: That these resolutions
be presented to the court with the
request that they be entered upon its
records and a copy be sent to his
widow and son.
In a most eloquent manner, ex-
pressing the sorrow of the Bar at
the passing of their beloved brother
afpt, al he