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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1, Chapter 6: Law School.—September, 1831, to December, 1833.—Age, 20-22. (search)
began in 1829, with the appointment of Judge Story and John H. Ashmun as professors. The character of Story as jurist and tlady. It was in the preceding April, 1833, that John Hooker Ashmun died,— the Royall Professor of Law,—and Sumner must have been present at Judge Story's eulogy on Mr. Ashmun. In my journal of that day I write: After the services closed and the men came forward to remove the body, a number of Mr. Ashmun's students, as if moved by an irresistible impulse, pressed They were to see his face no more. Mr. Alvord took Mr. Ashmun's place as professor, but, in the summer of 1833, he alsr Tower,—. . . Since my last, our junior professor Professor Ashmun.—as you have seen by the papers and by the eulogy I htures of the brain. A successor has been appointed to Mr. Ashmun, who will commence his duties here in July, or next Sept upon a first perusal; they are hardly elementary enough. Ashmun said that they were written as the judgments of a judge.
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1, Chapter 7: study in a law office.—Visit to Washington.—January, 1854, to September, 1834.—Age, 23. (search)
r three copies of your catalogue to present to some gentlemen here. The preface will do you, as well as them, good. Sumner's contributions to the Jurist at this time were an article on the Lex Loci,—Can the Assignee of a Scotch bond maintain an Action in his own name in the Courts of this Country? Jan. 1834, Vol. XI. pp. 101-105. containing citations from the Roman and the French as well as from the common law,—a paper which grew out of his argument of a moot-court case before Professor Ashmun, the previous year; a Review of Chitty's pleadings, April, 1834, Vol. XI. pp. 320-338. in which some technical questions are treated; Characters of Law Books and Judges, July, 1834, Vol. XII. pp. 5-66. The materials for this article were largely furnished by a memorandum-book, in which, beginning with 1832, he had been accustomed to write, from time to time, opinions of law books gathered in his reading. a voluminous collection of opinions; Replevin of Goods taken in Execution,
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1, Chapter 14: first weeks in London.—June and July, 1838.—Age, 27. (search)
atteson, who appears to stand next after Baron Parke in point of judicial reputation, is still young, John Patteson, 1790-1861. He was made a judge of the King's Bench in 1830; resigned on account of deafness in 1852, and sat five years after his resignation on the judicial committee of the Privy Council. His second wife was the sister of his colleague, Sir John Taylor Coleridge. See reference to him in Life of Lord Denman, Vol. I. p. 330.—that is, near fifty; he is about as deaf as Mr. Ashmun was, and yet Lord Denman says that he would not spare him for a good deal. Patteson was much annoyed by the report some time ago of his intended resignation. Travellers', Sunday, July 15. Have I told you the character of Mr. Justice Vaughan? John Vaughan, 1768-1839. He became a baron of the Exchequer in 1827, and a judge of the Common Pleas in 1834. He was supposed to be indebted for his advancement to his brother, Sir Henry Halford, the court physician. Life of Lord Denman, V
The picturesque pocket companion, and visitor's guide, through Mount Auburn, Monuments. (search)
Lyons, France, on the 30th November, 1833, aged 17 years. Cheever. Swett. Z. B. Adams. Hildreth. George W. Coffin. Andrews. Hoffman. John Hooker Ashmun. His remains rest in the vault of his family, in his native place. On the same Avenue a handsome white marble monument, of somewhat peculiar style, is marked with the well-known name of John Hooker Ashmun, a man of whom much might be said, but the ample inscription (ascribed to the pen of the late lamented Charles Chauncey Emerson) will doubtless be deemed a sufficient notice:-- Here lies the body of John Hooker Ashmun, Royal Professor of Law in Harvard University, who wJohn Hooker Ashmun, Royal Professor of Law in Harvard University, who was born July 3, 1800, and died April 1, 1833., In him the science of Law appeared native and intuitive; he went behind precedents to principles: and books were his helpers, never his masters. There was the beauty of accuracy in his understanding, and the beauty of uprightness in his character. Through the slow progress of the di