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21 A.B.A. J. 281 (1935)
Charles A. Boston, 1863-1935

handle is hein.journals/abaj21 and id is 287 raw text is: CHARLES A. BOSTON, 1863-1935 C HARLES A. BOSTON, President of the American Bar Association, 1930-1931, died March 8, 1935. His passing was a great loss to the legal profession and brought keen sorrow to all those who had had the privilege and pleasure of his friendship. He will long be remembered and recognized as hav- ing occupied a most dis- tinguished position at the American Bar, to which he had rendered such unique and invalu- able services. Mr. Boston had been associated with me, in the practice of his pro- fession, for t h e last thirty-four years of his life, and my admiration, respect and real affec- tion for him constantly increased as our years of association continued. Mr. Boston was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on August 31, 1863, of Scotch-English ancestors, who had set- tled on the Eastern Shore of Maryland and Virginia in the Seven- teenth Century. His father was John Edwin Hines Boston, a tin im- porter, and his mother, Cecilia Guyton, was the daughter of a High Sheriff of Harford County, Maryland. He attended Baltimore City College, Johns Hopkins University and the Uni- versity of Maryland Law School, receiving his de- gree of Bachelor of Laws in 1886, and was admitted to the Maryland Bar in the same year. He re- mained in Baltimore for two years in the office of John Prentice Poe, Attorney General of Maryland. He moved to New York in 1888, was admitted to the New York Bar the following year, and formed the partnership of Baldwin & Boston, with Wil- liam Woodward Baldwin, who subsequently be- came Third Assistant Secretary of State under President Cleveland. During the following three years he served as counsel in the Legal Depart- ment of the Title Guarantee & Trust Company, and in 1901 he became associated with the firm of Hornblower, Byrne, Miller & Potter, of which he became a member in 1907, remaining a member of that and its successor firms of Hornblower, Miller & Garrison, Hornblower, Miller, Miller & Boston, and Miller, Boston & Owen, of which latter firm he was a member at the time of his death. His partners included many able and distin- guished men who received wide recognition in pub- lic life, among others, the late William B. Horn- blower, nominated for the United States Supreme Court by President Cleveland, and at his death a Judge of the Court of Appeals of New York, James Byrne, Regent of New York University, and for- merly a Fellow of Har- vard College, the late Lindley M. Garrison, Vice-Chancellor of New Jersey and Secretary of War under President Wilson, and more re- cently, Hon. Nathan L. Miller, formerly a Gov- ernor, and Judge of the Court of Appeals, of New York. Mr. Boston was a profound student of the law. His fame and his honors came to him more for his wisdom, his humanity and his tire- less devotion to the ideals of the profession, than from public reputa- tion gained in the courts. His keenest intellectual pleasure was found in the constant study of the history of laws, and the application of the knowl- edge thus gained to the multiplicity of laws be- ing constantly enacted by Congress and the various State Legisla- tures. He had an almost photographic memory, and his impromptu opin- ions, which his associ- ates frequently called on him to give, were usually backed up with precedents which he could cite by volume and page. While he was a most entertain- ing and even brilliant speaker, he did not specialize in jury trial work, although he did distinguish him- self in numerous litigations of the very greatest im- portance, the administration of large and compli- cated estates, as well as in the reorganizations of many railroads and industrial corporations. He never sought, and public office never enticed him from the practice of his profession, he having even declined President Taft's proferred nomination to the bench of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals. Mr. Boston's very great interest in the prob- lems of his profession led him into the activities of many legal associations. As Chairman for twenty years of the Committee on Professional Ethics of the New York County Lawyers Association, he helped greatly to build legal ethics into an estab- lished code, rather than a vague hope. For many years he was almost daily called upon to answer numerous letters from lawyers from all parts of the

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