History of Sacramento County, California by William L. Willis

Author:William L. Willis [Willis, William L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Geschichte
Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag
Published: 2018-04-09T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER XXVII. MEMBERS OF THE SACRAMENTO BAR

If we should eliminate from our history the lawyer and what he has done, we would rob it of the greater part of its glory. Remove from our society today the lawyer, with the work that he does, and you will leave that society as dry and shiftless as the sands that sweep over Sahara. The lawyer is needed in the legislature, in congress; every business man needs him; in fact he is a necessary adjunct to every department of human life. Sacramento City had its great men in the past; great lawyers, great public men, great politicians.

It makes very little difference whether a man’s fame runs around the earth. or only goes to the limits of his residence. The world soon forgets even the most conspicuous fame. How many “immortals"

have been totally lost to the memory of man. Think of the great men of the past of ancient Assyria, Babylon, Persia, Egypt, Judea, Greece, Carthage, Rome, who were great in their day, and whose names have not been written or spoken for two thousand years. It is the rare and lucky man who arises from the flood of oblivion. The man who seeks immortality strives against awful odds, but that is an instinct in human nature which prompts one to rebel against oblivion. In the few references made in this review, it has been my endeavor to rescue from oblivion some of the great geniuses who founded this state.

While Newton Booth never engaged in the active practice of the law. he was a member of the bar. He became governor of the state, and United States senator. Milton S. Latham was governor and United States senator. J. Neely Johnson was governor; T. B. McFarland was judge of the supreme court, Robert F. Morrison was chief justice of the supreme court; H. O. Beatty was judge of the supreme court of Nevada. E. B. Crocker was supreme court justice, and the founder of the Crocker Art Gallery, which was donated by his widow to the city and is now one of the chief public attractions.

C. G. W. French was chief justice of the supreme court of Arizona.

Hiram W. Johnson removed his practice to San Francisco, and is now governor of this state, Creed Haymond was code commissioner and framed our present codes; also was state senator and afterward chief counsel for the Southern Pacific Company, and died in San Francisco, many years ago. He was one of the brilliant minds of the state.

W. H. Beatty is now chief justice of the supreme court of California.

W. C. Van Fleet is United States district judge at San Francisco.

Robert T. Devlin until recently was United States district attorney and was at one-time state senator from Sacramento. Cornelius Cole was congressman and United States senator. Col. E. D. Baker was United States senator from Oregon and was killed at Ball’s Bluff as brigadier-general during the Rebellion.

H. W. Halleck was during the Civil war the commander-in-chief of the Union armies under President Lincoln.

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