JUDGE HENRY A. TOWNE – Common Pleas Judge 1869-1870
NOMINATION FOR COMMON PLEAS JUDGE. IR JUNE 11, 1868.
To avoid the necessity of calling another Convention, the Delegates at the Republican Convention, which met at Portsmouth last Wednesday, conferred together to bring before the people a candidate for Common Pleas Judge.
The result of this conference was the presentation of the name of Henry A. Towne, Esq., of Portsmouth, a gentleman who combined all of these qualifications necessary to be a competent and reliable Judge. Mr. Towne is an old lawyer and was very prominently named for the position he is now nominated for when Judge Johnson was first brought out for that office. If Mr. Towne is elected, we will have a Judge who knows how to do business correctly and judicially.
In his practice, he has gained credit rather as a counsellor than a Courtroom lawyer. – He is a good judge of the law, qualified to give advice in the most complex cases. The businessmen of his locality have recognized these attributes by confiding to him the settlement of the most important cases. Let us elect him and have a good Judge for this sub-division.
COMMON PLEAS COURT – IR FEB. 11, 1869.
The February term of the Common Pleas Court commenced last Tuesday afternoon. Judge Towne was a few hours late in his arrival because he had to return his commission to the Secretary of State for the seal of that office. – The neglect of the officer at Columbus may be excusable, but it doesn’t look that way.
At a late hour, Tuesday, the Court convened. The Grand Jury was called, sworn, and charged by Judge Towne. The new judge promises to grace and honor the bench from present indications. He conducts the business smoothly and appears to catch and decide every point with rapidity. We predict for the Judge a satisfactory and pleasant career on the bench.
Yesterday was mostly spent calling off the docket and fixing days for the various trials. Judge Johnson brought up the city injunction case, but on consultation, it was laid over until today.
Hon. O. F. Moore and J. J. Harper, Esq., of the Portsmouth bar, are in attendance at the Court. – Quite a large number of people from the country are present.
Ironton Register, March 31, 1870 – Lawrence Co. Common Pleas. Judge Towne, Presiding.
Ironton Register, Thursday, February 23, 1888 – Death of Judge Towne.
Last week, Judge Henry A. Towne of Portsmouth died in Santa Barbara, California. The following notice of the deceased was written by R. M. Stimson and printed in the Marietta Register:
Judge Towne was born in Massachusetts – a nephew of Hon. Samuel F. Vinton of Ohio – passed his boyhood in Muskingum county; graduated at Marietta College in 1845; read law and was for a time in Coshocton, and subsequently was for years of the well-known law firm of Whittlesey & Towne, Marietta. Of his college class, thirteen in number, nine survive him, after a period of nearly forty-three years, among others, Rev. Ira M. Preston of this city.
Not a few will drop a sincere tear in the kindliest remembrance of Judge Towne. Of good brain, intelligent, sympathetic, thoroughly honest, and honorable, he had no enemy in life, and the blessings of everyone will now follow him.
IR Feb. 23, 1888 – The Lawrence county bar passed resolutions expressing respect for the memory of Judge Henry A. Towne, whose funeral occurred at Portsmouth last Tuesday afternoon. E. V. Dean, R. Leete, and A. R. Johnson were the committees that prepared the resolutions.
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