son of Joseph Loveland and Mercy Bigelow
AN OLD CITIZEN GONE. -- Died at Norwich, Vermont, January 3, 1870, the Hon. Aaron Loveland, aged eighty-nine years, four months, and twenty-four days. Thus has passed away another of the connecting links between the present generation and the early history of our constitutional government. Born amid the sorrows and the sufferings, the fears and anxieties of the Revolutionary War, from his youth up he has always been an interested and intelligent observer of the progress of the country and the workings and tendencies of our constitutional freedom. Judge Loveland was originally, by inheritance, a Federalist, then a Whig, then a Republican--always staunchly anti-slavery, and a firm friend of protective duties. But he was too independent a man to be the slave of any party, or to take his opinions ready formed from any keys. He was reared in a time, descended from and belonged to a class of men who were in the habit of thinking what they pleased and speaking what they thought. Judge Loveland was graduated at Dartmouth College in the class of 1801. During a part of his college course he was a room mate of Daniel Webster, who has paid him the compliment, in speaking of him as the best Greek scholar of the class; and this knowledge he kept up, reading the New Testament in Greek till the close of his life. After leaving college, he also devoted himself to the languages of the south of Europe, reading the French, Spanish, and the Italian, and at one time was a professor of these languages in the university then at Norwich. He studied and adopted the profession of the law, opening an office at Stafford, Vermont, where he remained only a short time and thence he removed to Norwich, his native place. In his professional life he was not only a sound, good lawyer, but a good citizen. He knew nothing of the tricks or the practice of the pettifoggers... He was no hunter up of cases, no quibbler, and whenever he tried a case before a magistrate, which he rarely did, his own character for candor, fairness and integrity always had its weight, and justly so, with court and jury. At one period of his life he was an Associate Justice of the County Court, and occasionally represented his town in the General Assembly. But in accordance with his natural temperament, he was not desirous of public life or notoriety, but preferred the quiet shades of retirement, and the "still air of delightful studies." His life was emphatically that of a recluse. At the time of his death, Judge Loveland was supposed to be the oldest graduate of Dartmouth College. He did not and was unwilling to attend the late Centennial celebration, for he said, "there will be no one of his day and generation to meet him." Judge Loveland lived and died unmarried, "non dulces pendent circum occula nati." It is easy to speculate upon what a different life he might have had with wife and children about him, but he was not unattended in his last sickness. Everything was done that could be for his comfort, and his last moments were soothed by kind and gentle ministrations. Thus has passed away one of the old landmarks, and how few there are that remain. He had passed the period allotted to the life of man by almost a score of years, but his end at last came, and it was like the fall of a crumbling and tottering column, whose overthrow had long been anticipated. If many have left a more brilliant record, few have left one that could be looked back upon in the closing scenes of life with more satisfaction. With all the modesty of his character he could truly say, "I might have been a stirrer up of strife in the community; I was a conservator of the peace; I have never sold or delayed justice; I have never misrepresented the law; I have never abused my client. Where is the poor man that I have oppressed, the widow or the orphan that I have defrauded,or whose plaint I have allowed to pass unheeded, or whose cause I suffered to go unprotected?" It is only such a record--one that shows all our duties faithfully performed--that will bring us peace at last. ... I am impressed with the belief that to be a good man was the guiding principle of Judge Loveland for more that a quarter of a century, and who is unwilling that a man of so many remarkable characteristics should be laid away in the grave without some slight recognition of his marked traits of character and his many virtues. W.H. Duncan.
Source:
- Loveland J.B., Genealogy of the Loveland family in the United States of America from 1635 to 1892: containing the descendants of Thomas Loveland of Wethersfield, now Glastonbury, Connecticut, George Loveland (Fremont, Ohio: I.M. Keller & Son, Printer, 1892), p. 93-95.)
AN OLD CITIZEN GONE. -- Died at Norwich, Vermont, January 3, 1870, the Hon. Aaron Loveland, aged eighty-nine years, four months, and twenty-four days. Thus has passed away another of the connecting links between the present generation and the early history of our constitutional government. Born amid the sorrows and the sufferings, the fears and anxieties of the Revolutionary War, from his youth up he has always been an interested and intelligent observer of the progress of the country and the workings and tendencies of our constitutional freedom. Judge Loveland was originally, by inheritance, a Federalist, then a Whig, then a Republican--always staunchly anti-slavery, and a firm friend of protective duties. But he was too independent a man to be the slave of any party, or to take his opinions ready formed from any keys. He was reared in a time, descended from and belonged to a class of men who were in the habit of thinking what they pleased and speaking what they thought. Judge Loveland was graduated at Dartmouth College in the class of 1801. During a part of his college course he was a room mate of Daniel Webster, who has paid him the compliment, in speaking of him as the best Greek scholar of the class; and this knowledge he kept up, reading the New Testament in Greek till the close of his life. After leaving college, he also devoted himself to the languages of the south of Europe, reading the French, Spanish, and the Italian, and at one time was a professor of these languages in the university then at Norwich. He studied and adopted the profession of the law, opening an office at Stafford, Vermont, where he remained only a short time and thence he removed to Norwich, his native place. In his professional life he was not only a sound, good lawyer, but a good citizen. He knew nothing of the tricks or the practice of the pettifoggers... He was no hunter up of cases, no quibbler, and whenever he tried a case before a magistrate, which he rarely did, his own character for candor, fairness and integrity always had its weight, and justly so, with court and jury. At one period of his life he was an Associate Justice of the County Court, and occasionally represented his town in the General Assembly. But in accordance with his natural temperament, he was not desirous of public life or notoriety, but preferred the quiet shades of retirement, and the "still air of delightful studies." His life was emphatically that of a recluse. At the time of his death, Judge Loveland was supposed to be the oldest graduate of Dartmouth College. He did not and was unwilling to attend the late Centennial celebration, for he said, "there will be no one of his day and generation to meet him." Judge Loveland lived and died unmarried, "non dulces pendent circum occula nati." It is easy to speculate upon what a different life he might have had with wife and children about him, but he was not unattended in his last sickness. Everything was done that could be for his comfort, and his last moments were soothed by kind and gentle ministrations. Thus has passed away one of the old landmarks, and how few there are that remain. He had passed the period allotted to the life of man by almost a score of years, but his end at last came, and it was like the fall of a crumbling and tottering column, whose overthrow had long been anticipated. If many have left a more brilliant record, few have left one that could be looked back upon in the closing scenes of life with more satisfaction. With all the modesty of his character he could truly say, "I might have been a stirrer up of strife in the community; I was a conservator of the peace; I have never sold or delayed justice; I have never misrepresented the law; I have never abused my client. Where is the poor man that I have oppressed, the widow or the orphan that I have defrauded,or whose plaint I have allowed to pass unheeded, or whose cause I suffered to go unprotected?" It is only such a record--one that shows all our duties faithfully performed--that will bring us peace at last. ... I am impressed with the belief that to be a good man was the guiding principle of Judge Loveland for more that a quarter of a century, and who is unwilling that a man of so many remarkable characteristics should be laid away in the grave without some slight recognition of his marked traits of character and his many virtues. W.H. Duncan.
Source:
- Loveland J.B., Genealogy of the Loveland family in the United States of America from 1635 to 1892: containing the descendants of Thomas Loveland of Wethersfield, now Glastonbury, Connecticut, George Loveland (Fremont, Ohio: I.M. Keller & Son, Printer, 1892), p. 93-95.)
son of Joseph Loveland and Mercy Bigelow
AN OLD CITIZEN GONE. -- Died at Norwich, Vermont, January 3, 1870, the Hon. Aaron Loveland, aged eighty-nine years, four months, and twenty-four days. Thus has passed away another of the connecting links between the present generation and the early history of our constitutional government. Born amid the sorrows and the sufferings, the fears and anxieties of the Revolutionary War, from his youth up he has always been an interested and intelligent observer of the progress of the country and the workings and tendencies of our constitutional freedom. Judge Loveland was originally, by inheritance, a Federalist, then a Whig, then a Republican--always staunchly anti-slavery, and a firm friend of protective duties. But he was too independent a man to be the slave of any party, or to take his opinions ready formed from any keys. He was reared in a time, descended from and belonged to a class of men who were in the habit of thinking what they pleased and speaking what they thought. Judge Loveland was graduated at Dartmouth College in the class of 1801. During a part of his college course he was a room mate of Daniel Webster, who has paid him the compliment, in speaking of him as the best Greek scholar of the class; and this knowledge he kept up, reading the New Testament in Greek till the close of his life. After leaving college, he also devoted himself to the languages of the south of Europe, reading the French, Spanish, and the Italian, and at one time was a professor of these languages in the university then at Norwich. He studied and adopted the profession of the law, opening an office at Stafford, Vermont, where he remained only a short time and thence he removed to Norwich, his native place. In his professional life he was not only a sound, good lawyer, but a good citizen. He knew nothing of the tricks or the practice of the pettifoggers... He was no hunter up of cases, no quibbler, and whenever he tried a case before a magistrate, which he rarely did, his own character for candor, fairness and integrity always had its weight, and justly so, with court and jury. At one period of his life he was an Associate Justice of the County Court, and occasionally represented his town in the General Assembly. But in accordance with his natural temperament, he was not desirous of public life or notoriety, but preferred the quiet shades of retirement, and the "still air of delightful studies." His life was emphatically that of a recluse. At the time of his death, Judge Loveland was supposed to be the oldest graduate of Dartmouth College. He did not and was unwilling to attend the late Centennial celebration, for he said, "there will be no one of his day and generation to meet him." Judge Loveland lived and died unmarried, "non dulces pendent circum occula nati." It is easy to speculate upon what a different life he might have had with wife and children about him, but he was not unattended in his last sickness. Everything was done that could be for his comfort, and his last moments were soothed by kind and gentle ministrations. Thus has passed away one of the old landmarks, and how few there are that remain. He had passed the period allotted to the life of man by almost a score of years, but his end at last came, and it was like the fall of a crumbling and tottering column, whose overthrow had long been anticipated. If many have left a more brilliant record, few have left one that could be looked back upon in the closing scenes of life with more satisfaction. With all the modesty of his character he could truly say, "I might have been a stirrer up of strife in the community; I was a conservator of the peace; I have never sold or delayed justice; I have never misrepresented the law; I have never abused my client. Where is the poor man that I have oppressed, the widow or the orphan that I have defrauded,or whose plaint I have allowed to pass unheeded, or whose cause I suffered to go unprotected?" It is only such a record--one that shows all our duties faithfully performed--that will bring us peace at last. ... I am impressed with the belief that to be a good man was the guiding principle of Judge Loveland for more that a quarter of a century, and who is unwilling that a man of so many remarkable characteristics should be laid away in the grave without some slight recognition of his marked traits of character and his many virtues. W.H. Duncan.
Source:
- Loveland J.B., Genealogy of the Loveland family in the United States of America from 1635 to 1892: containing the descendants of Thomas Loveland of Wethersfield, now Glastonbury, Connecticut, George Loveland (Fremont, Ohio: I.M. Keller & Son, Printer, 1892), p. 93-95.)
AN OLD CITIZEN GONE. -- Died at Norwich, Vermont, January 3, 1870, the Hon. Aaron Loveland, aged eighty-nine years, four months, and twenty-four days. Thus has passed away another of the connecting links between the present generation and the early history of our constitutional government. Born amid the sorrows and the sufferings, the fears and anxieties of the Revolutionary War, from his youth up he has always been an interested and intelligent observer of the progress of the country and the workings and tendencies of our constitutional freedom. Judge Loveland was originally, by inheritance, a Federalist, then a Whig, then a Republican--always staunchly anti-slavery, and a firm friend of protective duties. But he was too independent a man to be the slave of any party, or to take his opinions ready formed from any keys. He was reared in a time, descended from and belonged to a class of men who were in the habit of thinking what they pleased and speaking what they thought. Judge Loveland was graduated at Dartmouth College in the class of 1801. During a part of his college course he was a room mate of Daniel Webster, who has paid him the compliment, in speaking of him as the best Greek scholar of the class; and this knowledge he kept up, reading the New Testament in Greek till the close of his life. After leaving college, he also devoted himself to the languages of the south of Europe, reading the French, Spanish, and the Italian, and at one time was a professor of these languages in the university then at Norwich. He studied and adopted the profession of the law, opening an office at Stafford, Vermont, where he remained only a short time and thence he removed to Norwich, his native place. In his professional life he was not only a sound, good lawyer, but a good citizen. He knew nothing of the tricks or the practice of the pettifoggers... He was no hunter up of cases, no quibbler, and whenever he tried a case before a magistrate, which he rarely did, his own character for candor, fairness and integrity always had its weight, and justly so, with court and jury. At one period of his life he was an Associate Justice of the County Court, and occasionally represented his town in the General Assembly. But in accordance with his natural temperament, he was not desirous of public life or notoriety, but preferred the quiet shades of retirement, and the "still air of delightful studies." His life was emphatically that of a recluse. At the time of his death, Judge Loveland was supposed to be the oldest graduate of Dartmouth College. He did not and was unwilling to attend the late Centennial celebration, for he said, "there will be no one of his day and generation to meet him." Judge Loveland lived and died unmarried, "non dulces pendent circum occula nati." It is easy to speculate upon what a different life he might have had with wife and children about him, but he was not unattended in his last sickness. Everything was done that could be for his comfort, and his last moments were soothed by kind and gentle ministrations. Thus has passed away one of the old landmarks, and how few there are that remain. He had passed the period allotted to the life of man by almost a score of years, but his end at last came, and it was like the fall of a crumbling and tottering column, whose overthrow had long been anticipated. If many have left a more brilliant record, few have left one that could be looked back upon in the closing scenes of life with more satisfaction. With all the modesty of his character he could truly say, "I might have been a stirrer up of strife in the community; I was a conservator of the peace; I have never sold or delayed justice; I have never misrepresented the law; I have never abused my client. Where is the poor man that I have oppressed, the widow or the orphan that I have defrauded,or whose plaint I have allowed to pass unheeded, or whose cause I suffered to go unprotected?" It is only such a record--one that shows all our duties faithfully performed--that will bring us peace at last. ... I am impressed with the belief that to be a good man was the guiding principle of Judge Loveland for more that a quarter of a century, and who is unwilling that a man of so many remarkable characteristics should be laid away in the grave without some slight recognition of his marked traits of character and his many virtues. W.H. Duncan.
Source:
- Loveland J.B., Genealogy of the Loveland family in the United States of America from 1635 to 1892: containing the descendants of Thomas Loveland of Wethersfield, now Glastonbury, Connecticut, George Loveland (Fremont, Ohio: I.M. Keller & Son, Printer, 1892), p. 93-95.)
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