Father of Henry Elliott Shepherd
Judge Shepherd was a highly respected speaker of his day.
The duty which I have to perform in closing my leter is one of great sadness to me, and will case pain to your readers in this State. Hon Jesse G Shepherd died at his residence in this vicinity on Wednesday, 13 instant, at 5 o'clock AM.
For months past Judge Shepherd's health had been failing, and his rapid decline, recognized too surely by his friends, became a matter of deep concern and sympathy throughout the community. His disease (consumption) necessitated, in a great measure, a withdrawal from public life, and since the war Judge Shepherd had invariably declined every proposal from his people and his party, to elevate him to high positions which he could so well adorn; but it was nevertheless astonishing how long he regularly and resolutely performed the duties of life to which he had exclusively devoted the last few years of his life, rising at the bar to address the Judge upon the bench in that penetrating, clear voice which even the fingers of waiting death could not stifle; invoking the blessings of God before his altar with a pure heart and unsullied conscience, which not even the sight of the grave could disquiet; meeting his friends upon the street and in the social assemblage with that polish and courtesy which not even disease could weaken-long after it was felt by all, that legal, church and social duties were soon to lose their claims upon him forever.
Judge Shepherd was between forty-seven and forty-eight years of age, born June 23, 1821. He received his collegiate education at the University of North Carolina, graduating with distinction at that institution, and while there winning an enviable reputation for his mental acquirements and his high moral qualities.
In 1842 he married a sister of the late Hon J C Dobbin, Secretary of the Navy under the administration of Franklin Pierce, and for years a copartnership in law existed between him and Mr Dobbin.
He was appointed Judge upon the Superior Court bench by Governor Bragg in 1857, which position he filled with honor and dignity to himself and to the satisfaction of the people for three years, when he tendered his resignation of the office and turned his attention to his legal practice, with marked success, until every calling was so seriously interrupted by the changes incident to the war.
He served on several State Democratic Committees, acted as a delegate to two or three District and State Conventions, and addressed the people of this and surrounding counties upon the great political issues which have recently been decided. In every utterance he showed himself a far seeing statesman and an inflexible patriot, and in the Legislature of the State, where he repeatedly served us, was always the able politician and the incorruptible public official.
As a lawyer he was, as members of the profession who knew him intimately declare, one of the best read men in the State. His legal information apparently had no limit; his memory was seldom at fault, and a long course of study had rendered him able to use powerfully all that he had acquired. In his practice he was laborious and diligent, scrupulous to a fault, and perhaps over-cautious. Although an advocate of no ordinary ability, his strength lay rather in the preparation and direction of a cause, than in appeals to the jury. Very correct in language and precise in expression, he came to exact it of others, and the witness who left the stand without having given the whole truth, after an examination by Judge Shepherd, was certainly a man of uncommon mould.
Wilmington Journal
(Wilmington, North Carolina)
22 Jan 1869, Fri • Page 3
Judge Shepherd was a highly respected speaker of his day.
The duty which I have to perform in closing my leter is one of great sadness to me, and will case pain to your readers in this State. Hon Jesse G Shepherd died at his residence in this vicinity on Wednesday, 13 instant, at 5 o'clock AM.
For months past Judge Shepherd's health had been failing, and his rapid decline, recognized too surely by his friends, became a matter of deep concern and sympathy throughout the community. His disease (consumption) necessitated, in a great measure, a withdrawal from public life, and since the war Judge Shepherd had invariably declined every proposal from his people and his party, to elevate him to high positions which he could so well adorn; but it was nevertheless astonishing how long he regularly and resolutely performed the duties of life to which he had exclusively devoted the last few years of his life, rising at the bar to address the Judge upon the bench in that penetrating, clear voice which even the fingers of waiting death could not stifle; invoking the blessings of God before his altar with a pure heart and unsullied conscience, which not even the sight of the grave could disquiet; meeting his friends upon the street and in the social assemblage with that polish and courtesy which not even disease could weaken-long after it was felt by all, that legal, church and social duties were soon to lose their claims upon him forever.
Judge Shepherd was between forty-seven and forty-eight years of age, born June 23, 1821. He received his collegiate education at the University of North Carolina, graduating with distinction at that institution, and while there winning an enviable reputation for his mental acquirements and his high moral qualities.
In 1842 he married a sister of the late Hon J C Dobbin, Secretary of the Navy under the administration of Franklin Pierce, and for years a copartnership in law existed between him and Mr Dobbin.
He was appointed Judge upon the Superior Court bench by Governor Bragg in 1857, which position he filled with honor and dignity to himself and to the satisfaction of the people for three years, when he tendered his resignation of the office and turned his attention to his legal practice, with marked success, until every calling was so seriously interrupted by the changes incident to the war.
He served on several State Democratic Committees, acted as a delegate to two or three District and State Conventions, and addressed the people of this and surrounding counties upon the great political issues which have recently been decided. In every utterance he showed himself a far seeing statesman and an inflexible patriot, and in the Legislature of the State, where he repeatedly served us, was always the able politician and the incorruptible public official.
As a lawyer he was, as members of the profession who knew him intimately declare, one of the best read men in the State. His legal information apparently had no limit; his memory was seldom at fault, and a long course of study had rendered him able to use powerfully all that he had acquired. In his practice he was laborious and diligent, scrupulous to a fault, and perhaps over-cautious. Although an advocate of no ordinary ability, his strength lay rather in the preparation and direction of a cause, than in appeals to the jury. Very correct in language and precise in expression, he came to exact it of others, and the witness who left the stand without having given the whole truth, after an examination by Judge Shepherd, was certainly a man of uncommon mould.
Wilmington Journal
(Wilmington, North Carolina)
22 Jan 1869, Fri • Page 3
Father of Henry Elliott Shepherd
Judge Shepherd was a highly respected speaker of his day.
The duty which I have to perform in closing my leter is one of great sadness to me, and will case pain to your readers in this State. Hon Jesse G Shepherd died at his residence in this vicinity on Wednesday, 13 instant, at 5 o'clock AM.
For months past Judge Shepherd's health had been failing, and his rapid decline, recognized too surely by his friends, became a matter of deep concern and sympathy throughout the community. His disease (consumption) necessitated, in a great measure, a withdrawal from public life, and since the war Judge Shepherd had invariably declined every proposal from his people and his party, to elevate him to high positions which he could so well adorn; but it was nevertheless astonishing how long he regularly and resolutely performed the duties of life to which he had exclusively devoted the last few years of his life, rising at the bar to address the Judge upon the bench in that penetrating, clear voice which even the fingers of waiting death could not stifle; invoking the blessings of God before his altar with a pure heart and unsullied conscience, which not even the sight of the grave could disquiet; meeting his friends upon the street and in the social assemblage with that polish and courtesy which not even disease could weaken-long after it was felt by all, that legal, church and social duties were soon to lose their claims upon him forever.
Judge Shepherd was between forty-seven and forty-eight years of age, born June 23, 1821. He received his collegiate education at the University of North Carolina, graduating with distinction at that institution, and while there winning an enviable reputation for his mental acquirements and his high moral qualities.
In 1842 he married a sister of the late Hon J C Dobbin, Secretary of the Navy under the administration of Franklin Pierce, and for years a copartnership in law existed between him and Mr Dobbin.
He was appointed Judge upon the Superior Court bench by Governor Bragg in 1857, which position he filled with honor and dignity to himself and to the satisfaction of the people for three years, when he tendered his resignation of the office and turned his attention to his legal practice, with marked success, until every calling was so seriously interrupted by the changes incident to the war.
He served on several State Democratic Committees, acted as a delegate to two or three District and State Conventions, and addressed the people of this and surrounding counties upon the great political issues which have recently been decided. In every utterance he showed himself a far seeing statesman and an inflexible patriot, and in the Legislature of the State, where he repeatedly served us, was always the able politician and the incorruptible public official.
As a lawyer he was, as members of the profession who knew him intimately declare, one of the best read men in the State. His legal information apparently had no limit; his memory was seldom at fault, and a long course of study had rendered him able to use powerfully all that he had acquired. In his practice he was laborious and diligent, scrupulous to a fault, and perhaps over-cautious. Although an advocate of no ordinary ability, his strength lay rather in the preparation and direction of a cause, than in appeals to the jury. Very correct in language and precise in expression, he came to exact it of others, and the witness who left the stand without having given the whole truth, after an examination by Judge Shepherd, was certainly a man of uncommon mould.
Wilmington Journal
(Wilmington, North Carolina)
22 Jan 1869, Fri • Page 3
Judge Shepherd was a highly respected speaker of his day.
The duty which I have to perform in closing my leter is one of great sadness to me, and will case pain to your readers in this State. Hon Jesse G Shepherd died at his residence in this vicinity on Wednesday, 13 instant, at 5 o'clock AM.
For months past Judge Shepherd's health had been failing, and his rapid decline, recognized too surely by his friends, became a matter of deep concern and sympathy throughout the community. His disease (consumption) necessitated, in a great measure, a withdrawal from public life, and since the war Judge Shepherd had invariably declined every proposal from his people and his party, to elevate him to high positions which he could so well adorn; but it was nevertheless astonishing how long he regularly and resolutely performed the duties of life to which he had exclusively devoted the last few years of his life, rising at the bar to address the Judge upon the bench in that penetrating, clear voice which even the fingers of waiting death could not stifle; invoking the blessings of God before his altar with a pure heart and unsullied conscience, which not even the sight of the grave could disquiet; meeting his friends upon the street and in the social assemblage with that polish and courtesy which not even disease could weaken-long after it was felt by all, that legal, church and social duties were soon to lose their claims upon him forever.
Judge Shepherd was between forty-seven and forty-eight years of age, born June 23, 1821. He received his collegiate education at the University of North Carolina, graduating with distinction at that institution, and while there winning an enviable reputation for his mental acquirements and his high moral qualities.
In 1842 he married a sister of the late Hon J C Dobbin, Secretary of the Navy under the administration of Franklin Pierce, and for years a copartnership in law existed between him and Mr Dobbin.
He was appointed Judge upon the Superior Court bench by Governor Bragg in 1857, which position he filled with honor and dignity to himself and to the satisfaction of the people for three years, when he tendered his resignation of the office and turned his attention to his legal practice, with marked success, until every calling was so seriously interrupted by the changes incident to the war.
He served on several State Democratic Committees, acted as a delegate to two or three District and State Conventions, and addressed the people of this and surrounding counties upon the great political issues which have recently been decided. In every utterance he showed himself a far seeing statesman and an inflexible patriot, and in the Legislature of the State, where he repeatedly served us, was always the able politician and the incorruptible public official.
As a lawyer he was, as members of the profession who knew him intimately declare, one of the best read men in the State. His legal information apparently had no limit; his memory was seldom at fault, and a long course of study had rendered him able to use powerfully all that he had acquired. In his practice he was laborious and diligent, scrupulous to a fault, and perhaps over-cautious. Although an advocate of no ordinary ability, his strength lay rather in the preparation and direction of a cause, than in appeals to the jury. Very correct in language and precise in expression, he came to exact it of others, and the witness who left the stand without having given the whole truth, after an examination by Judge Shepherd, was certainly a man of uncommon mould.
Wilmington Journal
(Wilmington, North Carolina)
22 Jan 1869, Fri • Page 3
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