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JUDGE EMMET FIELD.
Emmet Field was the son of
the late William H. Field and
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Alary Jane Young, his wife. His father
was for many years prior to the Civil
War a distinguished lawyer at the Louisville
bar. The subject of this obituary
was born in Louisville, October
28, 1841; removed with his family to
Pettis County, Missouri, entered the Confederate
Army under Gen. Sterling
Price; returned to Louisville at the close
of the war, studied law. and. with the
exception of a brief stay at Springfield,
Ky., in the early days of his professional
career, practiced law in Louisville
until the vear 188R when he was elected
judge of the Jefferson Court of Common
Pleas. To this office he was regularly
re-elected at the conclusion of each term
of six years, and was holding it at the
time of his sudden death, which occurred
in the jury room adjoining his court
room on the morning of Monday, June
21, 1909, about 9:30 o'clock and just before
he was to go upon the bench for the
day's work.
The entire community without respect
to class, was profoundly distressed
by his death: all the courts of the city'
adjourned out of respect for his memory,
the flag on the City Hall was hung at
half-mast, the bar met and many beautiful
and eloquent tributes were paid his
memory by the lawyers who had practiced
before him and by the judges who
had been his colleagues.
Perhaps. not in all its history has
Louisville tad a citizen who was more
universally respected and beloved by the
people generally than was Judge Field.
Occupying, as he di2 for twenty-three
years, a prominent and very responsible
official position, he was always under observation;
and that he met every test of
the noble man and pre-eminently worthy
public servant the regret and sorrow
manifested over his death conclusively
showed. Indeed, there was a yet more
striking proof of the high esteem in
which Judge Field was held than is af'
forded by the encomiums pronounced
after his death, and that was that during
his lifetime he was referred to in terms
of admiration no less earnest and sincere
than those that were employed after
he had passed away. This fact was recalled
to the writer by a gentleman a
few day? ago, when, referring to Judge
Field, he said, "He was the very best
man I ever knew; and the unusual and
striking thing about it is that everybody
spoke of him about as I have done while
he was alive."
It was inevitable that Judge Field
should have been thus admired and lov
ea. uy nature ne was enaowea wun
traits and qualities calculated to make
him popular. A genial, cordial manner
toward everybody, a manifestation of
friendly interest in the welfare of others,
and, more than these, an unmistakable
genuineness of feeling united to make his
personality singularly attractive. As he
appeared to be, so he in fact was. Sham,
veneer and demagoguery were as im
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possible to him as was deceit of any
other kind, and the people exhibited toward
him the same unalloyed and disinterested
friendship which they realized
he had felt and shown toward them.
His domestic life was happy and beautiful
in the highest degree. In a lovely
home surrounded by a lawn and pasture
of some eight or nine acres in Crescent
Hill, a very attractive suburb of Louisville,
he lived a quiet, unostentatious
life. He was a devoted husband and
'father, and was, in turn, all but'the idol
of his family. Here, heartily seconded
by Mrs. Field and their daughters, he
dispensed a cordial and delightful hospitality.
Nothing afforded him more real
satisfaction than to entertain his friends
in his home; nor was he "forgetful to
entertain strangers," for his house was,
on almost countless occasions, the happy
and comfortable sojourn of the
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As a judge he was recognized by the
bench and the bar of the entire State and
by the people generally as representing
the nearest approach to the ideal. Fair
and just by nature, he was able, with unusual
accuracy, to see on which side
the right of a controversy lay; openminded
and patient, he never prejudged
but gave each side the fullest opportunity
to present its case; a diligent student
of the law, he was deeply learned in
its principles and rules, and appreciated
the importance of trying cases according
to those principles and rules; of uncompromising"
official integrity and fine
analytical powers, his reasoning was as
honest and true as his purposes were
high and noble; of unflinching courage,
he took no account of the popularity or
unpopularity of his decisions. In short,
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strong, open and well-trained mind, and
a will which transformed into action
with Inexorable determination?ra trinity
of qualities which must always produce
such a magistrate as Judge Field was.
He wag a member of and deacon in
the Crescent ftill Presbyterian Church,
and in his passing the Church sustains a
grievous loss, for he was wise "in counsel,
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generous in his material suppoit and helpful
in every way.
Finally, take him all in all, his like
will not soon be looked upon again. And
so we plant beside his toinu today the
oak, as the emblem of his strength; we
garland it with the lily, as the token of
his geutleness and kindliness; we deck
it with the rose, as the symbol of his
fidelity and efficiency; and for his epi
taph we inscribe Micah's words:
"He did justly; he loved mercy, and
he walked humbly with his God."
Pastor.
JOHN S. HOLMES.
At a meeting of the session of Government
Street Presbyterian Church, held
duly 4, 1909, its members, desiring to
express their profound respect anu
affectionate esteem for our late member,
John S. Holmes,?who for over forty years
has been a consistent member and
organist and for the past seven years a
faithful and devoted ruling elder and
clerk of the session, the following preamble
and resolution was adopted:
Whereas, it has pleased our Heavenly
Father, in his allwise providence, to take
to himself Ruling Elder John S. Holmes,
be it
Resolved, first, That in the death of
our brother and fellow-laborer a great
loss has been sustained both to the
church and'session.
Second, That we bear testimony to his
faithfulness and devotion to the Church,
and to his consistent walk and conversation.
Third, That we bow in humble submission
to the will of him who doeth all
things well.
Fourth, That we extend our sincere
and heartfelt sympathy to the sorrowing
ones and commend them to our Heavenly
Father.
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