Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1932-05-27
Rowan Bar Asso. Holds
Memorial Service In
Honor OF 7. G.. Linn

one of the leading firms of this sec
ton of the state. 1t has enjoyed a large
and varied practice in this and adjoin-
ing counties.
His interests were by no means
confined to his profession as shown by
his long and varied civic activity. In
1884, he was elected superintendent
Of education for Rowan county, serv-
ing in this office until his election as
mayor of Salisbury in 1888. He was
! reelected mayor in 1890 and asa..a in
1895.
Mir. Linn was a prominent mem
Der of the Masonic Order of the stare,
and in 1928 he was elected a life
member of the six lodges of the 18th
Masonic district in the Blue Lodge
chapter counsel and c~ommandery,
having held the senior offices in such
fraternities, also. being at one time po-
tentate of the Oasis Temple.
During the second Cleveland ad-
ministration, Mr.. Linn was chief clerk
to the committee On post offices and
post roads in the congress of the
United States, at which time the late
John S. Henderson from the Sails
bury district was chairman of the
committee. At this time another dis
tinguished Salisburian, the late Kerr
Craige, was also serving in Washing
ton as third assistant postmaster gen
eral.
For a number of years Mr.. Linn
also served as county attorney and as
a member of the city water board. His
services in all these capacities was
characterized by courtesy, dignity,
ability and the marked judgment and
wisdom that was part of his being.
For a number of years prior to
his death, Mr.. Linn was president of
the Rowan County Bar association,
and we'll do we remember his timely
words of advice and warning given
us in a plain and forceful talk on the
high ethics of the profession at a
meeting of the association a little ov-
er a year before his death. AS presi-
dent, he took a special interest in ad-
vising and helping the younger mem
bers of the bar whenever the occasion
offered.
"Mr. Linn was simple and direct
in thought and action and utterly
without show or ostentation. He hat
ed all forms of sham, hypocrisy and
assimilation, and all the meaner traits
of human character. 1t was only in
his attitude toward these things that
he was fierce and intolerant. In ex-
pressing and upholding his convic-
tons, he was fearless and courageous
No was ever in ignorance as to
where he stood on any controversy,
public or private. Being simple, direct
and courageous, he was, therefore, a
man of strong loyalties, loyal to man,
loyal to honor and principle, loyal to
himself, and loyal to God.
although he was not in the best
Of health during his latter years no
one we heard him murmur or M
plain. He daily pursued the even ten
or of his ways until he fell peacefully
asleep on the early morning of April
Is, 1882. He was buried in Chestnut
Hell cemetery by the side of his below
ed wife"
The following resolution was offer
ed at the meeting Saturday morning,
bearing on the memorial service:
"The Rowan Bar association, in
meeting assembled at II a. m, on the
second Saturday of the May, 1882,
term of the Rowan superior court, do
resolve:
"That in the death of the Honorable
7. C. Linn his children and grand
children have lost a devoted and af-
fectionate father and grandfather, his
community a good and loyal citizen
and the members of this association a
friend and leader whose passing they
deeply regret.
"That these proceedings and the
sketch prepared by the memorial COM
mittee be spread upon the permanent
minutes of this court; that copies be
sent to The Salisbury Evening Post,
The Carolina Waterman and to the
family If the dece,sedo