Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1889 — A LEGAL LIFE ENDED. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

A LEGAL LIFE ENDED.

Death of Judge Williamson of the Coofc County Bench. Judge Rollin S, Williamson of the Cook County (Ill.) Circuit Court died at

his home in Palatine on the 10th. Judge Williamson was boro in Cornwall,AddisonCounty. Vt., May 23, 1839. When 17 years of age he came West, locating in the township where he died. He studied law, and was admitted to the 'bar in 1870, and practiced for ten years. In 1880 he

was elected to the Superior Court bench and served eight years. One year ago he was chosen to fill a vacancy on the circuit bench. Judge Williamson was a man of marked personal popularity, a member of the Masonic fraternity, and an earnest and conscientious Methodist, being deeply interested in church and Sunday-school work. He leaves a wife and one daughter. Judge Williamson was prostrated by illness cn July ♦, and subsequently suf~ sered a stroke of paralysis. His critical condition was not known even to his intimate friends of the bench and bar, and the announcement of his death was a surprise to them.