xt708k74ts2x https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt708k74ts2x/data/mets.xml 1920 books b92-134-29323973 English [Press Westerfield-Bonte Co., Louisville, Ky.], : Lexington, Ky. : Contact the Special Collections Research Center for information regarding rights and use of this collection. Shelby, John Todd, 1851-1920. In memoriam : proceedings of the Lexington Bar and certain memorial resolutions adopted on the occasion of the death of John Todd Shelby. text In memoriam : proceedings of the Lexington Bar and certain memorial resolutions adopted on the occasion of the death of John Todd Shelby. 1920 2002 true xt708k74ts2x section xt708k74ts2x I.n Memoriam 41Noh t Cobb hrtbp a Jribute Mr tbar JLcrinqton Ziar K itringtoni, 1entuckp I This page in the original text is blank. This page in the original text is blank. IN MEMORIAM PROCEEDINGS OF THE LEXINGTON BAR AND CERTAIN MEMORIAL RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED ON THE OCCASilON OF THE DEATH OF JOHN TODD SHELBY Mors janua vitae Lexington, Kentucky 1920 NOTE. JOHN TODD SHELBY, who died at his home in the City of Lexington, on Tuesday, March 2, 1920, in the 70th year of his age and on the forty-eighth anni- versary of his admission, when a youth of twenty- one, to the Fayette County Bar, ranked with the greatest who have honored and adorned the legal profession in Kentucky. This record of the proceedings had and the reso- lutions adopted upon the occasion of his death is pre- sented to his friends and fellow-members of the Bar as a slight tribute of respect by the Association of the Bar of the City of Lexington. HOMAGE TO THE DEAD "In the loving bosom of his mother-land, Ken- tucky, his body lies, and there his brain and heart will moulder into dust and become a part of her; but his influence lives after him, and will be eternal. Always the past is the lawgiver of the present and the future. The past of Kentucky has been great, illustrious, and fortunate. Her future will be no less so, if, standing upon the old ways, she thence makes progress, obeying the legislation which the past has enacted for her in the wise thoughts, the great examples, and the beneficent influences of the generous and gallant sons who have lived and died in her service, crowning her with honor and glory." PRESS WESTERFIELD-BONTE COMPANY tLOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY 2 IN MEMORIAM. (From the Lexington Herald of Wednesday, March 3, 1920.) JOHN TODD SHELBY DIES AT HOME HERE TUESDAY EVENING. Day Forty-Eighth Anniversary of Admission to Fayette County Bar. HAD STATEWIDE REPUTATION. Life intertwitned With History of Central Kentucky. John T. Shelby died af his residence at 4 o'clock Tuesday afternoon, March 2, 1920, forty-eight years to a day from the day he was admitted to the bar, a youth of 21. He had been ill since February 14th, though not in good health for some years. A full history of his life would be an accurate account of the chief events and most notable trials in the Blue Grass from the date of his admission to the bar, March 2, 1872, to the day of his death, March 2, 1920. By birth and family connections he was intimately associated with those who played a dominant part in the political, financial, agricultural and social life of Kentucky. When little more than a lad he mar- ried the sweetheart of his childhood days and upon the attainment of his majority began the practice of 3 his profession in Lexington, where he spent his life and did his work, resisting all temptations, no matter how flattering the offers, to leave Kentucky, or even go from Lexington to Louisville. He quickly won conspicuity in the law, meeting with success the great men who gave fame to the Lexington bar in the last century. Gifted with a mind of marvelous lucidity, edu- cated with great care, trained to think and to labor, from the first he was recognized as among the ablest lawyers in Central Kentucky. There were few nota- ble cases in which his services were not engaged, few public movements in which he was not influential, the mere fact of his support of a man or advocacy of a principle having weight because of his lofty char- acter and pure ideals He never sought public office -never evinced nor cherished selfish ambitions. -But there was no movement, no project of value to his community or his State in which he did not have interest. Mr. Shelby was for nearly thirty years a member of Christ Church Cathedral and had been a member of the vestry for many years. He was senior warden of the Cathedral from 1907 until his death. November 7, 1872, Mr. Shelby was married at Christ Church, St. Louis, Mo., to Miss Lizzie M. Craig, of that city, who was born near Ghent, Ky., and who had spent much of her girlhood in the Wal- nut Hill neighborhood of Fayette County, not far from the home of Mr. Shelby's father. To this mar- riage were born four children, Thomas Hart, Francis Todd, John Craig and Christine. The second child, Francis, died in infancy. Mrs. Shelby died in Lex- ington on December 12, 1917. 4 Besides his two sons, Thomas Hart and John Craig Shelby, and daughter, Christine Shelby, Mr. Shelby is survived by a grandson, John Todd Shelby, II., son of Thomas Hart Shelby; three half-brothers, Thomas H. Shelby, Lexington; Wallace M. Shelby, Fayette County; Edmund B. Shelby, Charlotte, N. C., and eight half-sisters, Miss Mary C. Shelby, Lexing- ton; Mrs. Charles B. Post, Kingston, N. Y.; Mrs. Fanny S. Matthews, Mrs. W. P. Richardson, and Miss Florence Shelby, Lexington; Mrs. Hugh Rid- dell, Irvine, Ky.; Mrs Kate S. Scott, of Lexington, and Miss Willie Shelby, Charlotte, N. C. The funeral services will be held at Christ Church Cathedral Thursday afternoon, March 4, at 3 o'clock. The following brief sketch gives the salient facts about Mr. Shelby: John Todd Shelby, the son of Major Thomas Hart and Frances Todd Shelby, was born in Spring- field, Ill., January 25, 1851, while his mother was visiting the home of her parents, Dr. and Mrs. John Todd, his mother giving her life for his, dying within a week of his birth. He was reared in Kentucky, and educated at Centre College, Danville; Kentucky Uni- versity (now Transylvania College), and at Prince- ton, from which he was graduated with high honor in 1870, one of the youngest men in his class, and re- ceived from Princeton the A. M. degree in 1873. Later in life he was given the degree of Doctor of Laws by the University of Kentucky. He was admitted to the bar in Fayette county in 1872, and formed a partnership with Judge J. Soule Smith, one of the most famous wits and raconteurs who ever practiced in the Kentucky courts. In 1875 there was a partnership formed between Mr. Shelby 5 and W. C. P. Breckinridge, which lasted until the death of Colonel Breckinridge in 1904. During the greater part of that partnership Fayette was joined with other counties in a circuit, and the olden custom of lawyers at different bars practicing in the courts of different counties was followed by Mr. Shelby, who won first State-wide and then national reputa- tion as one of the most erudite, clear-thinking mem- bers of the American bar. After the death of Colonel Breckinridge, Mr. Shelby practiced alone until 1907, when with his son, J. Craig Shelby, just graduated from the Harvard Law School, he formed the firm of Shelby Shelby. R. L. Northcutt was taken into the firm in 1910 and in 1913 the firm name was changed to Shelby, Northcutt Shelby. This firm has maintained the highest tra- ditions of the profession, has been representative of the strictest ethics and stood at the very forefront of the law firms of Kentucky. In politics Mr. Shelby was a Republican, though a member of the Democratic party until the first Mc- Kinley-Bryan campaign in 1896. For three years, during the administration of Governor Augustus E. Willson, he was the Republican member of the State Election Commission. As a lawyer Mr. Shelby ranked with the greatest who have graced the bar of Kentucky. First of all a gentleman, courageous, high-minded, dutiful, he carried into the practice of his chosen profession the lofty courtesy that marked his social as it distin- guished his professional life. Though always taking an active interest in public affairs, he never sought nor would he ever accept public office for himself save in temporary discharge of obligations to others. 6 FAYETTE BAR ASSOCIATION TO HONOR SHELBY MEMORY. Members of the Fayette County Bar Association will meet Thursday morning at 11 o'clock in the cir- cuit courtroom to hear resolutions on the death of John T. Shelby, for years a leading member of the association, and to arrange to attend the funeral in the afternoon, it was announced last night by Judge Charles Kerr. All lawyers here are expected to be present. The following committees were named: Resolu- tions, Judge J. D. Hunt, Major D. G. Falconer, Major Samuel M. Wilson, Colonel John R. Allen, E. L. Hutchinson, W. P. Kimball, George C. Webb; Floral Designs, J. N. Elliott, J. P. Johnston, and Samuel S. Yantis. 7 BAR PROCEEDINGS. At a meeting of the Lexington and Fayette Coun- ty Bar Association, held in the Circuit Court room on the morning of Thursday, March 4th, 1920, Judge Kerr presiding, the following resolutions, reported by the committee, which had been appointed for the purpose, were unanimously adopted: RESOLUTIONS. It is with unfeigned sorrow that this Bar is called upon to record the death of Honorable John Todd Shelby, one of its oldest, ablest, and most distin- guished members. The Lexington Bar has seldom sustained a heavier loss than that occasioned by this bereavement, which occurred in this city on the after- noon of Tuesday, the 2d of March, 1920. For several months past, Mr. Shelby's health had been such as to cause anxiety to his friends, but it was fervently hoped that his condition might not be- come critical and that his exemplary and useful life might be spared to his family and friends for many years to come. While it cannot be said that he was ever endowed with a robust constitution, yet his nervous energy and exceptional will power enabled him always to carry through a prodigious amount of labor, and the vigor of his intellect was always such as to deceive even those who knew him best as to the limits of his physical strength. John Todd Shelby, the eldest son and only child of Thomas Hart Shelby and his first wife, Frances Stuart Todd, was born in Springfield, Illinois, on 8 January 25th, 1851, while his mother was on a visit to the home of her parents, Dr. and Mrs. John Todd. His mother having died very shortly after his birth, Mr. Shelby returned with his father to Kentucky, and grew to manhood at his ancestral home, " Belair, " a beautiful country seat in the Walnut Hill section of Fayette County. His preparatory education was obtained in the schools of Lexington and Fayette County. During the years 1866-67 he attended Centre College, of Dan- ville, and through the collegiate session of 1867-68 was a student in Kentucky University (now Tran- sylvania College), in Lexington. In the fall of 1868 he entered the College of New Jersey, at Princeton, and two years later graduated from that institution as a member of the class of 1870. Although among the youngest members of his class, he acquitted him- self with high honor and laid broad and deep the foundations of that superior scholarship for which he was noted throughout his after life. The degree of Bachelor of Arts, conferred at graduation, was succeeded by that of Master of Arts, conferred upon him by Princeton University in 1873, and afterwards by the degree of Doctor of Laws, con- ferred upon him by the State University of Ken- tucky, in 1904. Before his admission to the Bar, Mr. Shelby read law in the office of his uncle, Judge William B. Kin- kead. He was duly licensed to practice law on March 2, 1872, during the incumbency of Hon. Charles B. Thomas as Circuit Judge of this District. Ile then entered the office of Breckinridge Buckner. where he practiced law by himself until he formed a part- nership with the late Judge J. Soule Smith. This partnership lasted until September 1, 1875, on which date Mr. Shelby became a law partner of Colonel W. C. P. Breekinridge. This relation continued un- broken until Colonel Breckinridge's death on No- vember 19, 1904. 9 The firm of Breckinridge Shelby was one of the strongest and most successful law firms ever in prac- tice at this bar. The somewhat variant gifts of the two members of this firm served in many ways to supplement each other and gave to it a standing and an influence which might well be objects of envy and emulation by other members of the profession. After the death of Colonel Breckinridge, Mr. Shelby practiced alone until 1]907, when, with his son, John Craig Shelby, a graduate of the Harvard Law School, he organized the firm of Shelby Shelby. Mr. R. L. Northcutt became a member of this firm in 1910, and in 1913 the firm name was changed to Shelby, Northcutt Shelby. As thus constituted, the partnership has continued in force until dis- solved by Mr. Shelby's death. Mr. Shelby was one of that group of enterprising citizens who organized the Belt Line Railroad Com- pany, which afterwards passed under the control of the Elizabethtown, Lexington Big Sandy Railroad Company, and was absorbed with that property by the Chesapeake Ohio Railway Company. He also helped to organize the Belt Electric Railway Com- pany, the parent and predecessor of the present Lex- ington Street Railway system. He was for a long time chief counsel of the Lexington Waterworks Company, and also, for many years, had been general counsel for the Chesapeake Ohio Railway Com- pany, serving that part of its system known as the Kentucky division. He was also a director of the First City National Bank, and of the Fayette Home Telephone Company, which he had a large share in organizing and in placing upon a perma- nent and prosperous foundation. He has been local attorney for the Louisville Nashville Railroad Company, in Fayette and adjoining counties, almost from the commencement of his practice and, for many years, was also attorney for the Southern Rail- way Company in Kentucky. These professional 10 engagements, weighty and important as they were, did not, however, monopolize his time or atten- tion, to the exclusion of other business, for his activities as a lawyer may be said to have covered the entire range of litigation usual to the Bluegrass sec- tion of Kentucky. Nor did the engrossing nature of his professional duties prevent Mr. Shelby from devoting much val- uable time and patient and painstaking considera- tion to other vital interests of the city and commu- nity in which his life was passed. He served on the Board of Aldermen of Lexington, at a time when that body numbered among its members such men as Major R. A. Thornton, Judge J. D. Hunt, Thomas N. Allen, and others. For three years, during the administration of Governor Augustus E. Willson, he was the Republican member of the State Board of Election Commissioners. He was for many years a director of the Young Men's Christian Association of Lexington, officiated for several terms as president or vice-president of the Kentucky Society of Sons of the Revolution, and was a member of the vestry and, at the time of his death, Senior Warden of Christ Church Cathedral, of which church he had long been a communicant. No enterprise and no institution connected with the growth or well-being of this community has ever lacked for his judicious counsel or his whole-hearted and unselfish support. And not only will his wise counsel and generous co-operation be sadly missed by men of affairs and men of business, but a host of private individuals, who, either as clients or as friends, were so fortunate as to enjoy the advantage of his invaluable services, will mourn his loss as one that cannot be replaced. No lawyer of his generation stood higher in the estimation of this bar than did the distinguished jurist, whose passing we are this day called upon to 1I lament. For nearly fifty years past he has borne an unsullied reputation as a leading exemplar of the highest civic virtues as well as of the noblest ethics and traditions of the legal profession. His abilities and his attainments were such as to excite admira- tion and command respect from friend and foe alike. No lawyer, in any era of Kentucky's history, has ever surpassed him in acuteness of intellect, in clar- ity of thought, or in lucidity of expression. From the beginning to the end of his busy career, he met and mingled on equal terms with those whom this bar and the bar of Kentucky generally have accounted greatest in the profession of the law, and we can re- call no instance when he can fairly be said to have been overmatched. His knowledge of the law was varied, accurate and profound, and his powers of logical analysis in presenting any question or in ad- vocating any cause were at all times the despair of his adversaries as they were the subject of enthusi- astic and unqualified praise by his associates and colleagues. His high standing as a lawyer was em- phasized by the quiet, unobtrusive, but none the less impressive evidence of his dignity and worth as a man, and it is not too much to say that he deservedly takes rank as one of Lexington's most eminent and most universally respected citizens. As a counselor, Mr. Shelby was remarkably free from any appear- ance or suggestion of aggressive self-assertion, and, even when his advice was most eagerly solicited, he seemed to invite the views of those who sought his guidance rather than to impose upon them any opin- ions of his own. His gracious, tactful and consid- erate manner toward all who approached him has been a matter of constant comment by every thought- ful member of this bar. Realizing how feeble and inadequate must be any tribute that the members of this bar may seek to pay him, and that, in his case, even the sober language 12 of strictest -truth may sound like exaggerated eulogy, nevertheless, Be It Resolved, That, in the death of Honorable John Todd Shelby, this bar has suffered a grievous and irreparable loss; that his long and honorable career has conferred imperishable lustre upon this bar, the consciousness of which is not confined to this city and county, but is widely recognized throughout our own and other states; that his eminence as a law- yer, his leadership as a citizen, and his worth as a man are most keenly appreciated by those of us who have enjoyed the privilege of daily contact and asso- ciation and personal acquaintance with him; that none know better than ourselves or can better ap- praise his studious habits, his unflagging industry, his large experience, and his absolute fidelity to his profession, and none can more truthfully or more emphatically testify to his sterling character, his lib- eral culture, his extraordinary legal attainments, his public spirit, his unfaltering courage, his flawless courtesy, and to that rare combination of qualities, both of mind and temperament, which have stamped him as a shining example of the Christian gentleman, the erudite scholar, the upright counselor, the faith- ful advocate, and above all, as the exemplary citizen; and that, while none had a better right to boast of an illustrious ancestry, no man who has ever graced the bench or bar of Kentucky, had less occasion or need to rely upon pride of birth or the blazon of lineage to justify his title to distinction; and, Be It Further Resolved, That we offer this ex- pression of our affectionate regard and our lasting esteem as, in some sort, a token of reverent respect to our departed brother, and as a solemn testimonial of our sense of loss; and that, in common with the entire community, we extend to his surviving chil- dren and to the other sorrowing members of his fam- ily, our sincere and heart-felt sympathy; and that, as a further evidence of our friendship and respect, 13 we assemble in this court-room, as our custom is, and attend the funeral of Mr. Shelby in a body. D. G. FALCONER, JOSEPH D. HUNT, JOHN R. ALLEN, W. P. KIMBALL, E. L. HUTCHINSON, GEORGE C. WEBB, SAM'L M. WILSON. Mr. Wilson having read the resolutions, moved their adoption, and the motion was seconded by sev- eral members of the bar, accompanied by the follow- ing remarks: REMARKS BY COLONEL JOHN R. ALLEN. COL. ALLEN: Mr. Chairman, the death of Mr. Shelby makes me realize the passing of the years. When I came to the bar, I was the youngest member of the bar. I am now, with the exception of Judge Hunt (who is no longer in the practice), Judge Matt Walton, perhaps, Judge George B. Kinkead, and Major Falconer, the oldest, if not in years, at least in service, at this bar of any who are now living. When I came to Lexington as a law student, Mr. Shelby, who was then a member of the firm of Breck- inridge Shelby, was a member of the law faculty of Transylvania University, being the Professor of Equity. Among the other members of the faculty were such distinguished men as Major Madison C. Johnson, Gen. John B. Houston, James 0. Harrison, and one or two others of like prominence. As an ex- pounder of Equity Jurisprudence neither Yale nor Harvard, nor any other great university of our coun- try, could produce his superior. I remember his 14 text-book, perhaps the greatest text-book of all on equity, a short and very condensed one-Adams on Equity. That book he knew from cover to cover, and he required all of his students to learn and to know and understand it and to practically memorize the introductory chapter, which is a terse, lucid sum- mary of all the great principles and maxims of equity jurisprudence. From that time until the day of his death I have known Mr. Shelby perhaps as intimate- ly as any other member of the bar. I have been asso- ciated with him and his distinguished partner, Col. Breckinridge, and have been his adversary in many cases. I have seen him engaged in legal controver- sies with the great leaders of the bar, those to whom I have heretofore referred, Madison C. Johnson, James 0. Harrison, John B. Houston, James B. Beck, Frank K. Hunt, Richard A. Buckner, and they each found in him, though a much younger man, a foeman worthy of their best steel. I believe I can say in all sincerity that of all the lawyers with whom I have been thrown in contact, Mr. Shelby had no superior in learning, in acuteness of intellect, and especially in splendid powers of discriminating analysis. His arguments in this court were to my mind models of legal argument. He was always courteous to the other side, though maintaining his own position with firmness and force, never letting go a proposition that he believed sound. We all know with what great success he met in his practice. I knew him not only as a lawyer, but was asso- ciated with him in various business enterprises. He was one among ten of us who organized the Belt Line Company here some years ago, the Belt Electric Railroad; one among some of us who organized the 15 Fayette Telephone Company. I have served with him as a director in nearly all of those corporations, and there never was a wiser counselor, a saner or safer adviser than Mr. Shelby, not only in legal, but in all business matters. He was a man of the most upright integrity, and of splendid physical and moral courage. I remember on one occasion a con- troversy that took place between the Kentucky Union Railroad and the Belt Line Company in re- gard to the possession of a tract of land out near the old Anderson place on Third Street, or the Win- chester pike. A trainload of workmen, under the charge of the superintendent of the Kentucky Union Railroad, threatened to and did come on flat cars to take possession of that tract of land, which we be- lieved belonged to us. They came with all the imple- ments to run a fence, and we directors went out to protect our rights. We didn't have time to protect ourselves by law, because we only got the informa- tion that they were coming a short time before, and injunction proceedings would have been too late. So that all the ten directors of the Belt Line Com- pany went out themselves to oppose the taking pos- session of this tract of land by the Kentucky Union Railroad. I recall, as if it were yesterday, the super- intendent. He was a large, heavy man, rather coarse and brutal in appearance, and he, with some of his assistants, had already, when we got there, dug holes on this tract of land preparatory to putting in their posts and running a line of fence. We armed our- selves, not with guns or pistols, but with whatever was lying around in the way of sticks and staves or anything handy. I recall Mr. Shelby, frail and deli- cate as he was, stooping down to pick up a branch 16 for the purpose of protecting himself against the in- roads of a lot of ruffians, as we thought, and this superintendent put his foot on that branch, and Mr. Shelby could not move it. But he got in one of those holes that had been made for a post, and no post was allowed to go in that hole. He showed then the same firmness and courage physically that he always showed, morally and otherwise, during his life. Mr. Shelby's death comes to me as a personal grief. I not only knew him in business, I knew him socially. He has been a guest at my house and I a guest at his. Before my marriage, both my wife and myself were frequently guests at the country place of his father, the most charming home I have ever known, where the most lavish and generous hospi- tality was extended to everybody, particularly the young, and Mr. Shelby himself was frequently there on our visits. This bar, to my mind, has lost one of its greatest ornaments in everything that pertains to the best ideals of the profession, uprightness of conduct, ab- solute integrity in the management of all cases, cour- tesy to opponents, firmness in presenting the facts for every client. Mr. Shelby was tenacious of every opinion which he believed to be valid, and pre- sented it with an acuteness of intellect, a power of logic, a lucidity of expression that very few in my memory or knowledge equalled. Not only that, but above all, gentlemen, Mr. Shelby was a Christian. For many years he had been connected with Christ Church, was Senior Warden of the church, a mem- ber of the vestry for many years; and every one who knew him in his daily life, in all his conduct, saw that there ran through all his actions the faith that 17 he had in his belief in the precepts of the Christian religion. This bar has lost a great man, modest and unpretentious as he was. I desire to pay this tribute of admiration for his character, this testimony of my respect for him, and of my profound reverence for his learning and ability. To the younger mem- bers of the bar I can only say that they could have no brighter example of all that is best in our pro- fession than the life and character of Mr. Shelby, and no young man could do better than to follow, as far as he can, his footsteps and his example. Peace to his ashes, God rest his soul. REMARKS BY MR. WILLIAM WORTHINGTON. MR. WORTHINGTON: I came to Lexington to live in the spring of 1890, and on the first day of Sep- tember of that year I went into Mr. Shelby's office as stenographer, and remained there, with a short intermission, until the first day of September, 1897. My work was with Mr. Shelby during all of those years. When I first went to his office my equipment for the duties that I took up there were very inade- quate, both in my training as a stenographer and in my general education. As I look back upon Mr. Shelby's treatment of me, it makes his death a more poignant grief to me, when I think of the kindness which he extended to me. He gave me opportunity to go back in the shorthand school for about a year, in which I had all the time that was necessary to per- fect mvself in the work as best I could, and also, at his suggestion and advice, and by his giving me the time to do it, I went back to college to undertake to prepare myself better for the work which I did. 18 Later on I read law in his office under his guidance, under his advice, and generally he gave me advice about what I should do. I recollect on one occasion I had an opportunity to go to another office at a little larger salary, and I talked about the matter with Mr. Shelby, and he advised me that under the circum- stances he thought it would be better for me to re- main where I was, and his advice was certainly most excellent. I say these things to show the kindliness which the man gave to those surrounding him, and how valuable he was to every young man who came in contact with him. In later years, after I went out to myself, I officed next door to him, I saw him dur- ing all those years, and I never went to him for ad- vice or assistance that he did not give it willingly and cheerfully, and not only gave advice and assistance, but gave employment, which was of very great help to me. Mr. Shelby's death comes to me as a very great personal loss, as I know it must be also to those mem- bers of the bar who came in anything like the con- tact with him that I did. I consider it a very great privilege of my life to have been in his office, to have seen as I did his methods, how careful he was, how conscientious he was in everything he did. The workings of his mind were the most accurate of any man I ever came in contact with; whatever he did was complete, his thought was accurate, and above all was always that of a man of splendid conscience and honesty both by natural endowment of mind and later by training. I remember what a friend of mine said about Mr. Shelby, about his work in the court room, about being on the opposite side from him, a man, as I thought, of very great ability himself. In 19 speaking about having an argument with Mr. Shelby, he said that he very much preferred to make his argu- ment first, because, if he didn't, he generally found himself without very much to say after Mr. Shelby got through. I saw him during the course of my work in his office in the trial of many cases, I saw him associated with lawyers of splendid ability. I recall on one occasion a trial which took place in the United States Court at Frankfort, in which he was associated with Judge Lindsay, and I remember the consideration which was given to Mr. Shelby's opin- ion and in fact it was Mr. Shelby who conducted the case. I remember the sort of consideration he always got from the judges before whom he practised. His mind was keen, analytic, accurate and tenacious. I have never come in contact with any lawyer of trained mind which I considered in any way superior to his. I want to add my few words to the splendid resolutions that have been presented here, and to add my tribute of affection and respect at this time. REMARKS BY MR. W. C. G. HOBBS. MR. HOBBS: Mr. Shelby's attainments as a law- yer, his standing as a citizen, are too well known in this community for me even to refer to. But I want to make a few remarks about another side of Mr. Shelby's character and life. I feel that I would be recreant if I failed to do that on this occasion, and yet I feel that it is almost too sacred for me to refer to. He was a man who had the tenderest and most loving sympathy and solicitude for his friends when they were in trouble or distress that I have ever known. His simple, childlike, unwavering faith in the ef- 20 ficacy of the redeeming blood of the crucified Christ was the most beautiful thing I have ever seen. My talks with him along this line, his abiding hope, his confident expectation to mee