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T H E GRE E NSBO RO . PATRIOT. 9 bis iff? ' , i. rH)rnwed a pair jof pants l);.'k ana roue aii uiu wuiio apiui G4 rt--v5 w r 4- 4Vi a .1,.. v:t UU1. uwiuiut c& tut J f parents on hid return he i ' J ' , . V UOllUIS Wll.ll. HiUtU W i! v. ! ...:. ill 1 1 uuu wu u ; I IS I II" I : it . -,ev Kere then V", , I ! i y i,:u n the fee. mving in pants, or called, and lie was I i ' hh Willie wiuiug iw wuii : n'snei. a.f lone of the most dig- t.l tu rn ;tu I Vt'- yd J'i' , l i 1 L Oli.' ? j.."'. IliI r.: " th! 3it'' ale. OA dim of the case . ) BTCI UU; IUC UCUbU rijiyed a joke and loved j r i, t io jiiscover the pith of a jtrted by the following m sessionof the (Person a witness named Sarah .- tr tf answer one larked that! the on without Sarah .jiotiy) at which sally of ke into roars of laugh- alone oi an remaining he I application. On re- hi related tihe circum- wife, however substi- Sarah Mooney. Hq . T r saw any joke. She she did not. Kvell, f " I -.did not see afiy joke fori niched." i "f of tv attorhey. Mi ! i.i'.lolm A hlH'St (or ,f.t in "II mini must be onej there, "I cousin of Mt'hdenhall, a metnociic xo. ine ex- uiiir an exact account ox al lest item of was also that was lilmimstrator's income or i buyer of offered at sales and W. L. Scott was a ready debater and very popular with the masses. In 1870 he was a candidate for Congress but was defeated by General James Leach, a strong candidate. He served as a commissioned officer in the Twenty- hrst Worth Carolina Volunteers in 1861 and 1862. Among other members of the bar who served their State in the bloody front of war " were James T. More- head, Charles O. Shober (admitted 0 ) V" an accumulation of ick's tha filled his He was Ijfeensboro knd served i. ;ith ! i tial adjacent lots. in, brilli.int, gifted, larly, between - whom (i Miner there existed fitidndship, practiced at 9 ' vears. atifl .was n l ie Confederate congress. thejprime of hi l manhood. i:o!-fti'. Dick, burn in 1 ::$, A. L. Bkooks. 1850, died 1891), and W. S latter gentleman about 1852, as did Hill. The came to the bar also Thomas C. Albright and R. it. Armfield, who a few years later moved to Statesville and wasTelected pre'sideht of the State Senate, Congressman and judge of the superior court. He was renowned for while ever mindful of the honor and J wards served this company in the traditions of the glorious past are do-1 capacities of agent, operator, train ing well their part in developing the j master's clerk and train dispatcher, resources, creating new wealth and j While filling the latter position he building up a greater Carolina on the! read law at the Dick and Dillard foundations so well and truly laid by ( Law School and was licensed to prac- their honored ancestry. Alfred Coluks. JAMES T. MOREHEAD. ' CoL James T.-Morehead was born in Greensboro, May 28, 1838. He has resided in the house in which he was born all his life. But one other person in the city has duplicated this remark able record. Colonel Morehead pre pared for college at the classic school of Rev. Dr. Alexander Wilson, who was one of the best educators of bis time. Many young men of the State who afterwards became famous as states men, jurists and advocates received their early training in his school at Melville, Alamance county. In July, 1854, Colonel Morehead entered the University of North Carolina and graduated from that institution with the first distinction four years later. He at once took up the study of law under the j preceptorship of Chief 'Justice Richmond Pearson, of the supreme court, and was licensed to practice by the superior court in June, 1860, and in April, 1861. he entered the army as second lieutenant of the Guilford Grays, a company organized about! a year prior to the war, and called out by the governor at the outbreak of hostilities. Oh April 1, 1862, he became captain of Co. C, Fortj'-fifth Regiment.. North Carolina Infantry. In May bf I tice at the September term of the Su preme court in 1894. On February 15, 1897, lie associated himself with Messrs. John Gray Bynum and Wm. P. Bynum, Jr in the practice of law, and is now a member of the firm of Bynum, Bynum & Tay lor. On October 15, 1898, he was elected mayor to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John J. Nelson. In 1896 and 189S he was secretary of the Democratic Executive committee. AUBREY L. BROOKS. Junior member of the law firm of Boyd & Brooks, and State solicitor for the Fifth Judicial District, i was born in Person county, May 21, 1871. He re ceived his primary education at Bethel Hill in his-native county, after which he entered, the University of North Carolina, where he pursued his studies to 1893. Completing his studies at the University of Kentucky, in 1893, he re turned to the University of North Carolina -and took up the law course under the preceptorship of Dr. John Manning and Hon. James E. Shepherd, then chief justice of the su preme court of the State. After his admission' to the bar in 1893 he was for a time associated with Col. C. S. Win- cut from his taken in gown The accompanying latest photograph was and hood when he received 4he latter "degree. In 1868 he was appointed private sec retary to the Governor of North Cara lina and colonel in the militia, j In 1869, when only twenty years of age he became private secretary to fho President of the United States, Gen eral Grant. This position he retained until 1873, when he resigned to be come U. S. Marshal for the Western District of North Carolina, remain J V ' tion to that position, which he filled with marked ability. At the Democratic Congressional convention of the Seventh district in 1834 he came within one and a half votes of secur ing the nomination. He was a mem ber of the Democratic State Executive committee from 18S2 to 1896. At the election of 1S98 he was the nominee of the Republican party for State sen ator. Mr. Bradshaw was elected a trustee of the State University in 1891. and has served as trustee of Trinity Col lege, lie has taken an active interest in journalism, having been editor of the Ashcboro Courier for six years and president of the State Press Associa tion for one year. He is now a member of the law firm of Bradshaw & Newlin, of Greensboro. his powers as a pleader and knowledge of criminal practice as well as a jurist whose cogent opinions from the bench, ' which were models of clear f reasoning and havd been quoted with WU LAWAA M.M.R LUC 1112.' limL IK III son of John Mi Dick, i ne State and counlrv: and licensed in 1845. T , . " tt o w- x ' A -' fwuii v. liumuLTr was ucensea in U. S. District At- t . T, ... iot. ne nas servea accepiaoiy as a member of the State legislature and mayor of Greensboro. He is a con vincing . speaker ind indefatigable worker who once enlisted in the cause fWil-1 fit I 1ii.4 -appoiiited t-" ... K V I ' ' if I: A ;:' . & 'J 1 ' X'- ' I' i s - A MayorZ. V. Tayuik. ! ston in practice, later forming a part the same year he was elected lieuten ant colonel of the Fifty-third; North Carolina. Just after the battle of Spottsylvania, in which every! senior officer of his brieade was either k-illr a J - J. UX 1UV 1 o aJOUIV, Ui IWJi ! i T t . ' II or wounded, the command of the bri- ' hnm rJn. i uua&e wno ws a devoted; friend gadedevolved on Colonel Morehead and ilboro. In 1S98 he wn 1 of Senator Douglas, and the only dele hel served' in that office until a com-! solicitor. He was a Bryan elector in was appointed. May 12th, 1896. was commissioned colonel. nership with Col. Jas. E. Boyd, the j was Standing Master in Chancery of present assistant attorney-general of j U S- Circuit court, which j he re the United States. . signed to accept his present position t i . . " . . i' In 1874 he married the eldest dauirh Mr. Brooks wna fnr Rrm timo Tirooi. i . """fc.11 S rZl;; I ter of-Hon. Robert P. Dick. U. S. Dis mander 1864, he T a . . - m me iamous cnarge on "Harefs Hill, A. M. SCALES isear Petersburg, Va., on Ma-ch 25, jWas born in Greensboro in 1870. He 1865, Colonel Morehead was captured ;is a son of the late Colonel Junius I. KOBERT DICK DOUGLAS. The name of Douglas is interwoTen with the history of the legal profes- sion in this country almost as much -as in the Song and Story of Scotland. The father of the subject of this sketch (R. M. Douglas) is a judge of the Supreme court of North Carolina and his grandfather, Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois, was a jurist of . national renown. In boyhood Robert Diclc Douglas attended St. Mary's college. At the age of sixteen he en tered Georgetown University, Wash ington, D. O, from which institution he graduated with the highest honors in 1896. During his college days he was editor-in-chief of the College Journal and captain and manager of the Field and Track team of the Uni versityand vice-president of the Intercollegiate Athletic Association of America. : 1 , After graduation he studied law L under the preceptorship of his mater ' gate from North Carolina who did not p 7 ' 7 ll - "unRe UODert ' f r- L. P D,ck- In he was admitted to practice and in February of that year ', ?R. D. Dh'jlass. as such until 1883. For six vears hi w ' his own. Among he is known by the anti-railroad as appointed 11 strict yourt for ,f N"rth Carolina :,Tty by President Pierce! and held itte bflicp UTitii Fhr"iio f JJigncd. jlld took a prominent jPurt. m -jtlie stirring politieal ! events r!'1 durind and subsequent to e war.: lit? was h memberj of the su rem? c I of a client makes it i his fellow barristers Jthe sobriquet of lawyer," owing to the large number of these cases he has prosecuted to a I successful conclusion. Hon. Robert M. Douglas, who served ; as private secretary to General Grant during the -time he was President, j came. to North Carolina during Grant's j second administration and served as United States Marshal for the Western District of North Carolina. In 1896 he was elected to the supreme court bench. He is a son of the famous law yer and " tree soiler," Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois, j - Junius I. Scales, who died in the prime of a vigorous manhood, gave promise of much usefulness. He was a brother of Governor Scales. THOSE OF THffPRESENT. The foregoing are the men who have turned the leaves of life in the history of the bar of Guilford county, leaving their impress, and blazoned the his- tory of county, State and nation with court; frouJ 1868 to 1872, when their ability as barristers, probity as j ui isls, puniy as statesmen, prowess as soldiers and integrity as citizens. just before his v Hi ill A n ;Hri:, ralf(l HtilflilHV .if I judge ofS th U. S. the Western district an office he resign- death in 1898 Judge in the classics and t i literature. He - s t lis suhieets with nn!iitinr- ingnage and -wealth Vus' lt-anied . X ' - .t liljiiciil H riot f Ml i , h -la in S iovi-in'f rati I. t es ' ! (if vh 1 tlitf bar wholrepresent- Congre'sj 'and who from : 18.87 to 1891, enjoyed ,in all the jre he was called to rt the i respect and el low citizens'. Gov- ebruary 9, 1892. ' 1mVs the oldest living f lhr. 'wns n1mi4f1 in - i i s. ' -. :":-:;'; -; M1-!--'-"-; mr (US -v.-'.:, ' if $ to l . t to : ;:7 l I . I! J : 1 !- ito IV GUILFORIJ jCoiTNTY COURT HoUSK. 1 Jl' secede from the National Democratic convention at Baltimore,1 in I860. Judge Douglas is the son of the 'late Senator Stephen A. Douglas, of Illi nois, the National Democratic candi date for President in 1860, who wkf J inside the lines of the enemy and taken to Fort Delaware, where he was confined until June, 1865, when he was released through a mistake. During the four years Colonel! More head served in the army he was wounded three times. During the battle of July 1, 1863, at Gettysburg he was wounded but continued with his regiment in ' the engagement of the two subsequent days and during the retreat from that historic; field 'M'j p U ! i..r. i . It; H"r- : t ! r. ; -Vr practiced continuously M 1 -It' -1108 oen very successful clientage. His lead- have been perse- and perseverance. Hither of L. M., was Shortly ajftei being 1W -Mi in,;.., - i ..:- r He alsb received wounds at Fisher's Hill, Va., in September, 1864, and a Hare's Hill in 1865. After the war i Colonel Morehead returned to his na tive state and resumed the practice of law as soon as the courts were ' -I re-established and has practiced con tinuously since in Guilford and the t four j adjoining counties, being the only lawyer in the county who has a circuit. In August, 1866, he was electvi Com- bar he jmoved to 'd taw partnership I ill. Their law nart- s i I I . . i - a ;! .. 1 1 f- i. 3 1 . T 'It ;tU S3,, i Jilc 1th feis ifl n ted-by a warm per- n which j existed be- iuid the gif ted orator death of the former g from Georgia Mr. A Scott. This yas ine he. State "where rela- surname hail used . s f . . "hen a partnership hem. Prior to that 44 Kichard A M. Scalks. - They have bequeathed to those of to day an example "well worthy of emu lation.1 To the members of the bar of the county of Guilford in these latter days of a century so richi in historic events, in which many of their prede cessors took such a prominent and honorable part, is confided the keep ing of the honor of the past. They are partnership with his ! men resolute of purpose, who will pott, under the firm hand down to future frenerations n. . -------,o tarnished, the bright escutcheon of the legal fraternity and in their turn win new laurels and thus perpetuate the example of those who preceded them. The subsequent sketches por tray the men at the bar of to-day who by action arid example are aiding and enlarging the intelligence of the people and quickening their energies of life to the new conditions and who ed a member of the House of mons of North Carolina, and continued a member of that body until it was dis solved by order of General Canby. In 1872 Colonel Morehead was elected to the State senate and on the organiza tion of that body was chosen president, owing to the fact that the lieutenant governor was serving as governor. He was! alsq elected a member of the State Senate in 1874 and 1882. and was the Confederate Scales and Effie Henderson and a great grandson of Chief Justice Samuel Henderson. He was educated at the Raleigh Male Academy and the University of North Carolina. After leaving school he taught at Cape Fear Academy, Wilmington, N. C, for two years. He took the law course at the University of North Carolina and was admitted to the bar in 1892. After ad mission he associated himself in practice of his profession with his brother, Wallace N. Scales, and later formed a co-partnership with Judge It. M. Douglas. Prior to the elevation of Hon. T. J. Shaw to the bench he was associated with that gentleman in practice. In 1896 he was elected State senator from this district and was a valuable and able, member of that body during the session of 1897. He has been city attorney since 1896. As a member of the board of trustees of the University of North Carolina he has been an earnest worker for the advancement of the interests of that institution of learning. During the memorable - campaign of 1898 Mr. J Scales was Chairman of the Demo cratic executive committee and did , herculean work which" was crowned i with a great victory at the polls. " In 1896 Mr. Scales was united in marriage with Miss Bessie Taylor, onenen n in w nfT?a ln niii..u.. tr.c l - ... uiciliIUUIUa J1Q and Hon. S. R. Adams have recently formed a law partnership under the , firm name of Adams & Douglas. Since himself elected Judge of the Supreme "T me nr Z , jF . Supreme bench much of h s practice court of Illinois when only twenty 1 k- k . , . f - .i J i r i has been transferred to his son. seven years of age. H s mother wa: the daughter of Colonel Robert Mar- i r tint and the first cousin of Gbvernoi David S. Reid and the late Judge Set tie. Her father was a nephew of Gov ernor Alexander Martin, the Revolii tionary soldier, who wasj U. S. Sena tot and six times Governor of North Caro lina. ! ! Judge Douglas has been a jife-lons I I Republican, though never an extrem. partisan. , I After his- nomination; for the Su preme court he retired from active participation in political affairs, in obedience to the established ethics of his profession. - I Judge Douglas has always taken deep interest in public affairs, and es pecially in every effort to promote the educational and material advancement of our State. He was one of the most active promoters of the State Normal j school, aiid is known as a warm 'friend I of the University. i j Although he did not get his license to practice law until he was thirjy- seven years of age, within eleven j years he reached the Supreme ; court. and is now. its youngest member. His fitness for the position seems to 'be universally conceded. M ' - ' ' ' It... . I . . , .' i : , .1 - I - Oliver S. Newlin r"" ' f - " .''.I -.!' V"7-' first commander of Guilford Camp, daughter of Colonel John D. Taylor, federate Veterans. I of Wilmington, N. C. as Doe & Bro oe & as the je example of ifessrs. p followers and now Jimon use. George S. Bradshaw GEORGE S. BRADSHAW 1 1 Z. V. TAYLOR. i " . The present mayor of Greensboro, was born in Sparta, Tenn..' September 4th, 1868.' In boyhood he attended the public schools of Holiday, Ill., and afterwards completed the course at Oak Ridge Institute, Oak Ridge, N. C, which institution he left in 1885 and for the following three years was en gaged in teaching and in mercan tile pursuits in South Carolina In 1888 he entered the employ of the Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley Railroad as a telegraph operator. He af ter- ROBERT M. JDOUGLAS. Hon. Robert M. Douglas, whose term as Associate Justice of the Su preme court began on the first day of January, 1897k is a native North Caro linian, having been born in Rocking ham county. January 28, 1849. ne graduated at Georgetown Univer sity (Washington, D. C.) in ,1867, tak ing the degree of Bachelor of Art with the highest honors; and was vale dictorian of his class. Three year? later he received the degree of Mastex of Arts, and in 1897 that of Doctor of Laws. Was born in Alamance County, North Carolina, April 5, 1854. His father was a well-known agriculturist. George S. Bradshaw was educated at Trinity College, graduating therefrom in 1876. He was engaged in teaching for some time when he entered the law school of Dick & Dillard, on leaving which institution in January, 1879, he was ad mitted to the bar. In 18S0 he was elected to the general assembly and served therein for two years jas the representative of Randolph county. He was a member of the judiciary, educa tion, privileges and elections and printing committees, being chairman of the latter. Hewas elected clerk of the Randolph Superior Court in 1882 and was twice honored with re-elec- O. S. NKWLIN Is a native of Alamance county. North Carolina, where he spent his boyhood on his father's farm. .After attending the neighborhood schools he attended Burlington Academy and later Thomp son's School for two years, at which institution he completed his prepara tory education. In the fall of 1893 he entered the Sophomore class of Trin ity College, from which institution he graduated with distinction in 1896. Entering the law school of the Univer sity of North .Carolina the term fol lowing he graduated with the degree of Bachelor" of Laws, June, 1899, He obtained license to practice law at the February term of the supreme court of the same year. , Afterjeaving the university he entered the law oU rice of that well-known and distln guished attorney, Jacob A. Long, of Graham, N. C; in October, 1898, form ed a co-partnership with him, and fl opened an office in Greensboro. Dur- ing March of thej presept year he ! severed his connection with Mr. Long and became a member of the firm of Bradshaw & Newlin. . Mr. Newlin has had fine advantages in . pre paring for his profession, and has availed himself of them In such a man ner as to guarantee for him a place of high rank at the bar. In argument he is forceful and analytical; in habits he. is very studious and attentive. With such , natural endowments, and mental equipment acquired by close application, he is well worthy of con ; fidence and patronage. JUDGE SPENCER B. ADAMS. Judge Spencer B. Adams was born October 15th, 1860, in Surry county, N. C, and received his early training in the neighborhood school, later studying at Boonville Academy, Rlch ville, Va., and at Rockingham, N. C. In 1881 he beganthe study of law under the preceptorship of Judges Dick and Dillard, in whose famous school so many of our honored practi tioners have acquired their knowledge
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