The Bench and Bar of Illinois Author:John McAuley Palmer Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: . s . .''. -.. .- i . i . i ' . i 1 . . '.i . :' i . ' ':. ' ' .'.. -..:ii . i . .i . .. i i- ! i . . :. : . ' '.'- l ; .;.: I''- .'.:... more ».. ' . I -. ':n.-'. ii:i'' ".( '.Vi .: ' . l': I1 ' : ' ' . ' . "O- ''.. i ' ' .. :i:,' ,i. :' . : !- .1 il-, .: -..:. '.. :."......... : . : '.I.'1 i". : . 'i :,!:.:... . -1 .:,.1. . : ..'.'.. : ' '. ' - " i'.iSt.-'. '... '..'- ' i! .:.' -.::.. -. ' i' f. //.t I the family of the deceased our heartfelt sympathies in this their sad and irreparable bereavement. Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be presented to the family of the deceased, and also to the supreme court of the southern grand jurisdiction of this state and the appellate court in the fourth district of Illinois and to the circuit and county courts, and that a copy be furnished to the St. Louis and Mount Vernon papers for publication. Charles H. Patton, the Nestor of the Mount Vernon bar and the leading corporation lawyer of southern Illinois, has attained to an eminent position in his chosen calling, and no citizen of the community is more highly respected or more fully enjoys the confidence of the people and richly deserves the esteem in which he is held. Honorable in business, loyal in citizenship, charitable in thought, kindly in action, true to every trust confided to his care, his life is of the highest type of American manhood. Mr. Patton was born in Hartford county, Connecticut, near the city of Hartford. May 9, 1834, and his ancestral history is one of close connection with the annals of New England, for the family was founded in America by the Pilgrim fathers who settled in Massachusetts in the early part of the seventeenth century. The family was represented in the war of the Revolution, and the grandfath...« less