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Henry Budd

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Henry Budd

Birth
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA
Death
28 Apr 1921 (aged 71)
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA
Burial
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA GPS-Latitude: 40.0033194, Longitude: -75.1828861
Plot
Lot 682. no. 1.
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HENRY BUDD, '98c

Henry Budd, '68C., who has been elected to succeed Joseph G. Rosengarten, '52C., as president of the Society of the Alumni (College), has long been active in that organization as in other branches of Pennsylvania life. Mr. Budd comes of a family long settles near Philadelphia, where he was born, November 12, 1849, his father being Henry Budd and his mother Martha Berg. The Budd family traces its ancestry well back through Colonial history, one of the early progenitors being a clergyman in the Church of England who turned Friend and for this was persecuted. One of this man's sons, ardent for liberty, came to America, and settled in Burlington County, New Jersey, prior to 1682. Thence the family spread to Pennsylvania, where one of the Budds became Sheriff of Philadelphia early in the eighteenth century. The elder Henry Budd was founder of the Cora Exchange, which was afterwards emerged into the Commercial Exchange. His uncle, Charles Budd, was on the United States frigate,"Chesapeake" at the time it was captured by the "Shannon", and later in the war of 1812 commanded the "Preble" at Lake Champlain.

Henry Budd, President of the Society of the Alumni, was educated at the Episcopal Academy of Philadelphia, one of the oldest schools of he city. Thence he went to the University of Pennsylvania, and was graduated in 1868, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. he entered the office of Peter McCall, then on of the leaders of the Pennsylvania Bar. In 1871 Mr. Budd was admitted to practice in the Philadelphia Courts, the same year receiving the degree of Master of Arts from Pennsylvania.

Mr. Budd has been on the Board of Directors of the Society of the Alumni almost all the time since his graduation. He was one of the original members of the Central Committee of the Alumni and its President for some three years. With Mr. Chas. F. Ziegler (a classmate) he was editor of The University, a graduate and undergraduate magazine which had a short life during 1869. He was class historian, captain of the class baseball nine, and during his junior year of the University nine; he was a substitute on the University cricket eleven and played in one match.

To The Penn Monthly, which was in a sense a successor of The University, Mr. Budd was a frequent contributor, and when the Rev. Dr. Robert Ellis Thompson, '65C., gave up its editorship it was conducted by an editorial board headed by Samuel Wagner, '81C., and of which Mr. Budd was a member. Mr. Budd has contributed to various law publications of the country and England. Mr. Budd for years was a contributor to the American Law Register, and when, some fifteen years ago, the magazine was about to undergo a change of administration, he was its editor for a year and a half. One of his principal works s Leading Cases in the American law of Real Property, frequently used as authority. The work bears the name of the late Chief Justice Sharswood and Mr. Budd, but the share of the Chief Justice comprised only the approval of the plan and the examination of the manuscript of the first volume. The great jurist died before the second volume was prepared. Chief among Mr. Budd's purely literary writing is "St Mary's Hall Lectures." Other of Mr. Budd's important legal publications are the first volume of English and American Cases in Equity, of which he was editor, and the Digest if Weekly Notes in which he was greatly aided by the collaboration of George H. Smith, '91C. Some of Mr. Budd's many addresses have been published. Important among them was The Annual Address before the Maryland Bar Association, 1903; Colonial Legislation in Pennsylvania, 1700-1712

Mr. Budd also contributed to The Southern Law Review and The London Law Quarterly. A most important work was in connection with Weekly Notes of Cases, In 1875 there was a general re-organization of the courts and increase in their number, with a consequent danger of a conflict of practice amongst the courts, To avid this it was thought by several then junior members of the Bar that the publication of cases, especially practice cases, in the courts of first instance, and they were decided each week, would be of great benefit to the profession. The original editor was Elias L. Boudinot, '64C., who was succeeded by A.A. Outerbridge, '60C. George Biddle reported the Supreme Court; the Hon. James T. Mitchell reported Common Pleas, No. 2; W.W. Wister, Jr., '57C., reported Common Pleas, No. 1; Samuel W. Pennypacker, Common Pleas, No. 3; George Tucker Bispham, '58C., the Orphans' Court, and Henry Budd Common Pleas, No. 4, and subsequently the Supreme and Superior Courts. Chief among Mr. Budd's purely literary writing is "St. Mary's Hall Lectures." Other of Mr Budd's important legal publications are the first volume of English and American Cases in Equity, of which he was editor, and the Digest of Weekly Notes, in which he was greatly aided by the collaboration of George H. Smith, '91C. Some of Mr. Budd's many address have been published. Important among them was The Annual Address before the Maryland Bar Association, 1903; Colonial Legislation, in Pennsylvania, 1700-1712; The Limits Of Party Obligation. Those of our alumni that attended the University Day Dinner of the College Alumni, February 22, 1904, will remember how interesting were Mr. Budd's memories of college days on Ninth street and how eloquent with his plea for holding to the old Humanities in education.

Among Mr. Budd's important cases of later years have been the Com'th v. Griest, 96 Pa., 396, which decided that the Government had no right to prevent the submission of a constitutional amendment to the people, and In Re Independence nominations, 208 Pa., 108, in which, overruling several opinions of lower courts to the contrary, the Supreme Court held that a judge had no right to define of limit the principles upon which electors might form political parties, and that the importance of principals union which parties might be formed was for the people and not for the courts.

For some years Mr. Budd was Jurist Consultus of the Medico-Chirurgical College.

Mr. Budd is a trustee of the Burlington College of St. Mary's Hall, of the General Theological Seminary of the Protestant Episcopal Church, of New York, and of the Young Man's Institute. Through it an extensive system of libraries and schools of instruction has developed. Mr. Budd has been one of the censors of the Law Association, of Philadelphia and for many years was on its Library Committee; a member of the American Bar Association, of which he has been vice-president for Pennsylvania. he is a member of the Pennsylvania State Bar Association. He has been a director of the Academy of Music for many years an officer of the Associate Society of the Red Cross and about the time of the Johnstown flood he was very actively engaged in its work. Politically, he is an independent, but uncompromising Democrat. Ten years before the Democrat organization raised the standard of tariff reform he was an exponent of free trade, during several campaigns. In 1880, he was one of the founders of the Young Men's Democratic Assocation, and was its temporary President, declining election to the permanent Presidency in favor of John Cadwalader, '62C. In 1901 he ran as candidate of the Union Party for Judge of the newly created Common Pleas Court, No. 5, and it was first announced that he had been returned. The final count seated Judge Davis be a very slight plurality.

Mr. Budd is a member of the University, Penn, Independence and Philobiblon Clubs, and of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

Mr. Budd was married on November 20, 1888, to Miss Judith J. Dallett, daughter of Gillies Dallett, of Philadelphia.

The Alumni Register
Page 540, 505, & 506
HENRY BUDD, '98c

Henry Budd, '68C., who has been elected to succeed Joseph G. Rosengarten, '52C., as president of the Society of the Alumni (College), has long been active in that organization as in other branches of Pennsylvania life. Mr. Budd comes of a family long settles near Philadelphia, where he was born, November 12, 1849, his father being Henry Budd and his mother Martha Berg. The Budd family traces its ancestry well back through Colonial history, one of the early progenitors being a clergyman in the Church of England who turned Friend and for this was persecuted. One of this man's sons, ardent for liberty, came to America, and settled in Burlington County, New Jersey, prior to 1682. Thence the family spread to Pennsylvania, where one of the Budds became Sheriff of Philadelphia early in the eighteenth century. The elder Henry Budd was founder of the Cora Exchange, which was afterwards emerged into the Commercial Exchange. His uncle, Charles Budd, was on the United States frigate,"Chesapeake" at the time it was captured by the "Shannon", and later in the war of 1812 commanded the "Preble" at Lake Champlain.

Henry Budd, President of the Society of the Alumni, was educated at the Episcopal Academy of Philadelphia, one of the oldest schools of he city. Thence he went to the University of Pennsylvania, and was graduated in 1868, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. he entered the office of Peter McCall, then on of the leaders of the Pennsylvania Bar. In 1871 Mr. Budd was admitted to practice in the Philadelphia Courts, the same year receiving the degree of Master of Arts from Pennsylvania.

Mr. Budd has been on the Board of Directors of the Society of the Alumni almost all the time since his graduation. He was one of the original members of the Central Committee of the Alumni and its President for some three years. With Mr. Chas. F. Ziegler (a classmate) he was editor of The University, a graduate and undergraduate magazine which had a short life during 1869. He was class historian, captain of the class baseball nine, and during his junior year of the University nine; he was a substitute on the University cricket eleven and played in one match.

To The Penn Monthly, which was in a sense a successor of The University, Mr. Budd was a frequent contributor, and when the Rev. Dr. Robert Ellis Thompson, '65C., gave up its editorship it was conducted by an editorial board headed by Samuel Wagner, '81C., and of which Mr. Budd was a member. Mr. Budd has contributed to various law publications of the country and England. Mr. Budd for years was a contributor to the American Law Register, and when, some fifteen years ago, the magazine was about to undergo a change of administration, he was its editor for a year and a half. One of his principal works s Leading Cases in the American law of Real Property, frequently used as authority. The work bears the name of the late Chief Justice Sharswood and Mr. Budd, but the share of the Chief Justice comprised only the approval of the plan and the examination of the manuscript of the first volume. The great jurist died before the second volume was prepared. Chief among Mr. Budd's purely literary writing is "St Mary's Hall Lectures." Other of Mr. Budd's important legal publications are the first volume of English and American Cases in Equity, of which he was editor, and the Digest if Weekly Notes in which he was greatly aided by the collaboration of George H. Smith, '91C. Some of Mr. Budd's many addresses have been published. Important among them was The Annual Address before the Maryland Bar Association, 1903; Colonial Legislation in Pennsylvania, 1700-1712

Mr. Budd also contributed to The Southern Law Review and The London Law Quarterly. A most important work was in connection with Weekly Notes of Cases, In 1875 there was a general re-organization of the courts and increase in their number, with a consequent danger of a conflict of practice amongst the courts, To avid this it was thought by several then junior members of the Bar that the publication of cases, especially practice cases, in the courts of first instance, and they were decided each week, would be of great benefit to the profession. The original editor was Elias L. Boudinot, '64C., who was succeeded by A.A. Outerbridge, '60C. George Biddle reported the Supreme Court; the Hon. James T. Mitchell reported Common Pleas, No. 2; W.W. Wister, Jr., '57C., reported Common Pleas, No. 1; Samuel W. Pennypacker, Common Pleas, No. 3; George Tucker Bispham, '58C., the Orphans' Court, and Henry Budd Common Pleas, No. 4, and subsequently the Supreme and Superior Courts. Chief among Mr. Budd's purely literary writing is "St. Mary's Hall Lectures." Other of Mr Budd's important legal publications are the first volume of English and American Cases in Equity, of which he was editor, and the Digest of Weekly Notes, in which he was greatly aided by the collaboration of George H. Smith, '91C. Some of Mr. Budd's many address have been published. Important among them was The Annual Address before the Maryland Bar Association, 1903; Colonial Legislation, in Pennsylvania, 1700-1712; The Limits Of Party Obligation. Those of our alumni that attended the University Day Dinner of the College Alumni, February 22, 1904, will remember how interesting were Mr. Budd's memories of college days on Ninth street and how eloquent with his plea for holding to the old Humanities in education.

Among Mr. Budd's important cases of later years have been the Com'th v. Griest, 96 Pa., 396, which decided that the Government had no right to prevent the submission of a constitutional amendment to the people, and In Re Independence nominations, 208 Pa., 108, in which, overruling several opinions of lower courts to the contrary, the Supreme Court held that a judge had no right to define of limit the principles upon which electors might form political parties, and that the importance of principals union which parties might be formed was for the people and not for the courts.

For some years Mr. Budd was Jurist Consultus of the Medico-Chirurgical College.

Mr. Budd is a trustee of the Burlington College of St. Mary's Hall, of the General Theological Seminary of the Protestant Episcopal Church, of New York, and of the Young Man's Institute. Through it an extensive system of libraries and schools of instruction has developed. Mr. Budd has been one of the censors of the Law Association, of Philadelphia and for many years was on its Library Committee; a member of the American Bar Association, of which he has been vice-president for Pennsylvania. he is a member of the Pennsylvania State Bar Association. He has been a director of the Academy of Music for many years an officer of the Associate Society of the Red Cross and about the time of the Johnstown flood he was very actively engaged in its work. Politically, he is an independent, but uncompromising Democrat. Ten years before the Democrat organization raised the standard of tariff reform he was an exponent of free trade, during several campaigns. In 1880, he was one of the founders of the Young Men's Democratic Assocation, and was its temporary President, declining election to the permanent Presidency in favor of John Cadwalader, '62C. In 1901 he ran as candidate of the Union Party for Judge of the newly created Common Pleas Court, No. 5, and it was first announced that he had been returned. The final count seated Judge Davis be a very slight plurality.

Mr. Budd is a member of the University, Penn, Independence and Philobiblon Clubs, and of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

Mr. Budd was married on November 20, 1888, to Miss Judith J. Dallett, daughter of Gillies Dallett, of Philadelphia.

The Alumni Register
Page 540, 505, & 506


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