Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1900 — Resolutions of the Lafayette Bar. [ARTICLE]

Resolutions of the Lafayette Bar.

At a meeting of the Tippecanoe Cjounty bar, ' held at Lafayette Thursday, the following resolutions on the death of Edwin P. Hammond Jr., were adopted. “Once again has death’s unerring shaft found lodgment in the heart of a member of this bar. “While Christmas bells were ringing and all earth seemed filled with glad anthems of the happy holiday season the summons came to Edwin P. Hamm- nd, Jr., and without pausing to reply he took his departure and entered upon the solution of that greatest problem of human life—death. “We meet in the forum to-day to pay tribute to his memory and bto express sincere and heartfelt sympathy for those whose lives, by nature’s ties end association, were so closely interwined and interwoven with his that it seemed when his sun had set theirs could no longer shine. | “Edwin P. Hammond, Jr., was born March 2, 1873, at Rensselaer. Xnd. After graduating from the public schools he spent one year at Notre Dame college at the end -’of which he entered Indiana university at Bloomington,' Ind,, from Which he was graduated with (honor in the class of 1895. Having chosen the profession of law f£>r his life work he read under the guidance of hiß father until the opening of the school year following; when he matriculated in the law school of his alma mater, graduating thereform in 1897. At this time he entered the office of his father, the Hon. Edwin P. Hammond, a member of the firm of of Stuart Brothers & Hammond, where he continued in the active prHciicebfhisprotegsionuntilhiH death. ‘‘Edwin P. Hammond, Jr., was both by nature and education most excellently equipped to succeed in the profession to which he had become wedded. His eminent qualities of heart and mind were recognized by all who knew him. His opportunities to become a leading jurist were unexcelled, if not unequalled. His every effort was made beneath the eye of a fond father, whose own experience and ability have made him the ieer of the ablest jurist of the day. “The death of Edwin P. Hammond, Jr., has robbed this bar of one of its most promising members. It has removed one whose courtesy and kindly greetings had endeared him to his fellow-mem-bers. It has taken from the father and mother the solace and comfort of their riper years. “We bow in sorrow to the mandate of Him whose ‘ways are past finding out.’ “So far aB human sympathy can extend, we offer ours to the bereaved and striken family: therefore be it “Resolved, That this memorial be spread upon the records of the courts of this county and a copy thereof transmitted to the family c the deceased.”