Daily Alta California, Volume 24, Number 8161, Wednesday, July 31, 1872, Page 2, Column 3 —
Notice to Members of the Bar.
The members of the Bar of the Court in this city and county are respectfully requested to be present at meeting to be held in the Twelfth District Court-room, one o'clock, P. M., Wednesday, July 31st, for the purpose of making proper expression of the respect for the memory of the late Hon. Edward Norton (formerly Judge of the Twelfth District, and subsequently Justice of the Supreme Court), whose death occurred at London, England, on the 12th of May last, the news reaching San Francisco during the legal vacation.
Daily Alta California, Volume 24, Number 8196, Wednesday Morning, September 4, 1872, Page 1, Column 4 —
IN MEMORIAM.
─────
At the meeting of the Society of California Pioneers, held on the 2nd instant, the following memoir and testimonial in respect to the memory of the late Judge Norton, was unanimously adopted:
Edward Norton, a life-member of the Society of California Pioneers, late Judge of the Supreme Court of California—our Court of last resort—and formerly Judge of the District Court of the Twelfth Judicial District, died in London, England, on the 12th day of May last, aged 63 years and upward, having been born on the 29th day of October, 1808.
The members of this Society mourn. The Bench and Bar and the people mourn. Shall we ever “look upon his like again?” Shall we ever see another so modest, learned, intelligent and generous?
Judge Norton was born in Canandaigua, New York. A beautiful place and county to be born in, and to live in. That village in the country, with its educated and refined inhabitants, was a suitable and genial home for one of the pure and sensitive nature of Norton to grow up in. There was harmony between the scenery and salubrious atmosphere of his birth-place and cultivated people, and the growing boy. Afterward his father and family removed to Buffalo, and many years ago, his father, Col. Ebenezer F. Norton, was a member of congress from the Congressional district in which Buffalo was situated.
At the age of twenty years Edward Norton graduated at Union College, New York, with high rank, in a class with a number of young men, who afterward achieved honors and distinctions. Ho was one of the founders of a social and literary society, which originated there, called the "Sigma Phi." He studied law in Buffalo, and then entered upon the practice of his profession, where he distinguished himself by his industry, learning and probity.
The oldest and most eminent lawyers there, Millard Fillmore, Albert H. Tracy, George P. Barker, Thomas C. Love, Henry K. Smith, and others, esteemed him as possessed of the finest legal mind of any young man known to them of his age. In 1840 he removed to the City of New York, and practiced his profession there until March, 1849. At that time he joined a number of gentlemen, among who [whom] was Henry G. Langley, and with them formed the "Haviland Mining Association," of which he was President. He started with the Company from New York city, overland, for California, March 17th, 1849, and reached California by way of Fort Smith and Santa Fe. On his way across the plains, other means or travelling having given out, he walked four hundred miles, through deep and burning sands. He, and others of his Company, voted for the Constitution of California, at Fort Yuma, November 13, 1849. He reached San Diego, December 6, 1849, and sailed from thence in the brig Gen. Fremont, in company with Col. John C. Hays, Major John Carpenter, John Nugent, Henry G. Langley, and others, and reached San Francisco, January 9, 1850. Soon after, he commenced the practice of the law here, and immediately gained and earned the highest esteem and consideration of the members of his profession, and of all his fellow-citizens and residents, by the purity of his life, his profound legal knowledge and sound judgment.
He was the first Judge of the District Court of the Twelfth Judicial District, which position he held until January, 1861. No one ever surpassed him as a nisi prius Judge—a Judge who tries issues of fact with a jury, or in California who tries issues of fact and hears and decides questions of law without a jury. His memory of facts, of testimony and questions of law raised and argued in course of a trial was prodigious. He came into Court one morning and sat upon the bench with the papers in fifty-six cases before him; and taking up the cases one by one in their order, without notes or memoranda, rendered decisions in each one of them, reciting the facts in each case, stating the questions of law, and deciding them, and giving his reasons, and noticing all the niceties and shades of fact and law critically, with the greatest clearness and force. Performances of this kind were not uncommon with him.
Early in1861, Judge Norton went to Europe. In his absence, and without his knowledge, he was elected one of the Judges of our Supreme Court. He was chosen on account of his eminent fitness, and it was the highest testimony which the people could give of their esteem and confidence.
There remain and reside in San Francisco several of Judge Norton's near relatives: The widow of his deceased brother, Charles Norton, his nephews Henry and Edward Norton, his niece [neice], Mrs. Wm. H. Moor, and her children, and the children of his niece [neice], Mrs. Benjamin M. Hartsborne, deceased.
The California Pioneers "weep with those who weep and mourn with those who mourn,'' in deepest sorrow the loss of a generous, noble, honest man gone from among us forever. Respectfully submitted,
JOHN SATTERLEE,
GEO. F. SHARP,
JOHN W. DWINELLE,
NATH'L. HOLLAND,
JOHN CURREY,
Committee.
Daily Alta California, Volume 3, Number 285, Friday Morning, October 15, 1852, Page 2, Column 2 —
Later from the South—The Land Commissioners
— Two Horse Thieves Killed—
Political Nomination.
──────────────
Democratic Convention.
The Democratic County and City Nominating Convention met last evening at their headquarters in the Verandah building.
Proceedings of last meeting read and approved.
John Morrissey was substituted as a delegate hi place of Edward Bulger, of the Sixth Ward.
Letters were read from the different candidates for office, in which the county were included.
The convention then proceeded to the nomination of a District Judge, with the following result:
Edward Norton 46
Nath'l Holland 16
A. M. Heslep 0
Mr. Edward Norton was declared to be unanimously nominated.
Nominations were then made for State Senators with the following result:
Frederick D. Kohler 35
Wm. C. Parker 36
Elisha Cook 27
Herman Wohler 26
J. B. Bidleman 1
Messrs. Kohler and Parker were declared to be unanimously nominated.
The Convention then adjourned until Saturday evening at 7 ½ o’clock.
Daily Alta California, Volume 12, Number 3962, Tuesday Morning, December 18, 1860, Page 1, Column 1 —
The Bar of San Francisco and Judge
Edward Norton.
The members of the Bar of San Francisco, according to call, met at 3 o'clock yesterday after noon, in the Twelfth District Court room, to receive the report of the Committee on Resolutions, appointed to express the feelings of the lawyers of the city in regard to the retirement of Judge Edward Norton from the bench of the Twelfth District Court. Fletcher M. Height acted as chairman, and Frank Turk as secretary. The committee, consisting of D. O. Shattuck, John Satterlee, Alexander Campbell, Delos Lake, J. D. Creigh, Myron Norton and Eugene Casserly, reported the following resolutions, which were unanimously adopted:
Resolved, By the members of the Bar of the City and County of San Francisco, December 17th, 1860,
1. That in the approaching retirement of his Honor, Edward Norton, from the Court of the Twelfth Judicial District of California, the Bench, the Bar, and the suitors of his Judicial District, are to undergo a great loss.
2. That during the period of more than six years, for which Judge Norton has filled the Bench of the Twelfth Judicial District, he has performed the duties of his office—always laborious and often extremely difficult—with an industry, patience and fidelity; a memory and mastery of details of fact, and a power of logical analysis and discrimination; a union of learning and judgment, and entire impartiality as to persons and subjects, which, amid the conflicts of our new community and of local interests, have commanded the respect and admiration of the Bar and the public; have enlarged the general confidence in the Courts, and added luster [lustre] to the Judiciary of the State.
3. That from our constant personal observation of Edward Norton in his daily life as a Judge, during his entire career, it is due to him, and to ourselves, as his brethren of the same profession, that we should know thus publicly speak of him, as we have ever known him—as eminently entitled to the high praise of being, in all respects, an able and a just Judge.
4. That whether he remains among us as our honored fellow-citizen, or is absent in other lands, our earnest wishes for his health and happiness will be with him everywhere.
5. That Judge Norton be requested to sit for his portrait; that it may be placed with the consent of the public authorities in the Court-room of the Twelfth Judicial District in this city, there to remain as a lasting memorial of one who has built up the Court from its foundation, to be honorable to himself, salutary and useful to the people.
Resolved, That a Committee of three be appointed to carry out the requirements of the foregoing resolutions, and to transmit them to Judge Norton, and to have them placed upon the minutes of the Court, upon the coming in of his successor.
Eugene Casserly, J. A. McDougal, and J. J. Papy were appointed said Committee.
Thereupon the meeting adjourned.
San Francisco Call, Volume 78, Number 22, 22 June 1895, Page 5 —
Not copied due to its length. Subject covered in the article is about the State of California court justices up to and including current judges. Judge Edward Norton is listed three times.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Norton_(judge)
Notice to Members of the Bar.
The members of the Bar of the Court in this city and county are respectfully requested to be present at meeting to be held in the Twelfth District Court-room, one o'clock, P. M., Wednesday, July 31st, for the purpose of making proper expression of the respect for the memory of the late Hon. Edward Norton (formerly Judge of the Twelfth District, and subsequently Justice of the Supreme Court), whose death occurred at London, England, on the 12th of May last, the news reaching San Francisco during the legal vacation.
Daily Alta California, Volume 24, Number 8196, Wednesday Morning, September 4, 1872, Page 1, Column 4 —
IN MEMORIAM.
─────
At the meeting of the Society of California Pioneers, held on the 2nd instant, the following memoir and testimonial in respect to the memory of the late Judge Norton, was unanimously adopted:
Edward Norton, a life-member of the Society of California Pioneers, late Judge of the Supreme Court of California—our Court of last resort—and formerly Judge of the District Court of the Twelfth Judicial District, died in London, England, on the 12th day of May last, aged 63 years and upward, having been born on the 29th day of October, 1808.
The members of this Society mourn. The Bench and Bar and the people mourn. Shall we ever “look upon his like again?” Shall we ever see another so modest, learned, intelligent and generous?
Judge Norton was born in Canandaigua, New York. A beautiful place and county to be born in, and to live in. That village in the country, with its educated and refined inhabitants, was a suitable and genial home for one of the pure and sensitive nature of Norton to grow up in. There was harmony between the scenery and salubrious atmosphere of his birth-place and cultivated people, and the growing boy. Afterward his father and family removed to Buffalo, and many years ago, his father, Col. Ebenezer F. Norton, was a member of congress from the Congressional district in which Buffalo was situated.
At the age of twenty years Edward Norton graduated at Union College, New York, with high rank, in a class with a number of young men, who afterward achieved honors and distinctions. Ho was one of the founders of a social and literary society, which originated there, called the "Sigma Phi." He studied law in Buffalo, and then entered upon the practice of his profession, where he distinguished himself by his industry, learning and probity.
The oldest and most eminent lawyers there, Millard Fillmore, Albert H. Tracy, George P. Barker, Thomas C. Love, Henry K. Smith, and others, esteemed him as possessed of the finest legal mind of any young man known to them of his age. In 1840 he removed to the City of New York, and practiced his profession there until March, 1849. At that time he joined a number of gentlemen, among who [whom] was Henry G. Langley, and with them formed the "Haviland Mining Association," of which he was President. He started with the Company from New York city, overland, for California, March 17th, 1849, and reached California by way of Fort Smith and Santa Fe. On his way across the plains, other means or travelling having given out, he walked four hundred miles, through deep and burning sands. He, and others of his Company, voted for the Constitution of California, at Fort Yuma, November 13, 1849. He reached San Diego, December 6, 1849, and sailed from thence in the brig Gen. Fremont, in company with Col. John C. Hays, Major John Carpenter, John Nugent, Henry G. Langley, and others, and reached San Francisco, January 9, 1850. Soon after, he commenced the practice of the law here, and immediately gained and earned the highest esteem and consideration of the members of his profession, and of all his fellow-citizens and residents, by the purity of his life, his profound legal knowledge and sound judgment.
He was the first Judge of the District Court of the Twelfth Judicial District, which position he held until January, 1861. No one ever surpassed him as a nisi prius Judge—a Judge who tries issues of fact with a jury, or in California who tries issues of fact and hears and decides questions of law without a jury. His memory of facts, of testimony and questions of law raised and argued in course of a trial was prodigious. He came into Court one morning and sat upon the bench with the papers in fifty-six cases before him; and taking up the cases one by one in their order, without notes or memoranda, rendered decisions in each one of them, reciting the facts in each case, stating the questions of law, and deciding them, and giving his reasons, and noticing all the niceties and shades of fact and law critically, with the greatest clearness and force. Performances of this kind were not uncommon with him.
Early in1861, Judge Norton went to Europe. In his absence, and without his knowledge, he was elected one of the Judges of our Supreme Court. He was chosen on account of his eminent fitness, and it was the highest testimony which the people could give of their esteem and confidence.
There remain and reside in San Francisco several of Judge Norton's near relatives: The widow of his deceased brother, Charles Norton, his nephews Henry and Edward Norton, his niece [neice], Mrs. Wm. H. Moor, and her children, and the children of his niece [neice], Mrs. Benjamin M. Hartsborne, deceased.
The California Pioneers "weep with those who weep and mourn with those who mourn,'' in deepest sorrow the loss of a generous, noble, honest man gone from among us forever. Respectfully submitted,
JOHN SATTERLEE,
GEO. F. SHARP,
JOHN W. DWINELLE,
NATH'L. HOLLAND,
JOHN CURREY,
Committee.
Daily Alta California, Volume 3, Number 285, Friday Morning, October 15, 1852, Page 2, Column 2 —
Later from the South—The Land Commissioners
— Two Horse Thieves Killed—
Political Nomination.
──────────────
Democratic Convention.
The Democratic County and City Nominating Convention met last evening at their headquarters in the Verandah building.
Proceedings of last meeting read and approved.
John Morrissey was substituted as a delegate hi place of Edward Bulger, of the Sixth Ward.
Letters were read from the different candidates for office, in which the county were included.
The convention then proceeded to the nomination of a District Judge, with the following result:
Edward Norton 46
Nath'l Holland 16
A. M. Heslep 0
Mr. Edward Norton was declared to be unanimously nominated.
Nominations were then made for State Senators with the following result:
Frederick D. Kohler 35
Wm. C. Parker 36
Elisha Cook 27
Herman Wohler 26
J. B. Bidleman 1
Messrs. Kohler and Parker were declared to be unanimously nominated.
The Convention then adjourned until Saturday evening at 7 ½ o’clock.
Daily Alta California, Volume 12, Number 3962, Tuesday Morning, December 18, 1860, Page 1, Column 1 —
The Bar of San Francisco and Judge
Edward Norton.
The members of the Bar of San Francisco, according to call, met at 3 o'clock yesterday after noon, in the Twelfth District Court room, to receive the report of the Committee on Resolutions, appointed to express the feelings of the lawyers of the city in regard to the retirement of Judge Edward Norton from the bench of the Twelfth District Court. Fletcher M. Height acted as chairman, and Frank Turk as secretary. The committee, consisting of D. O. Shattuck, John Satterlee, Alexander Campbell, Delos Lake, J. D. Creigh, Myron Norton and Eugene Casserly, reported the following resolutions, which were unanimously adopted:
Resolved, By the members of the Bar of the City and County of San Francisco, December 17th, 1860,
1. That in the approaching retirement of his Honor, Edward Norton, from the Court of the Twelfth Judicial District of California, the Bench, the Bar, and the suitors of his Judicial District, are to undergo a great loss.
2. That during the period of more than six years, for which Judge Norton has filled the Bench of the Twelfth Judicial District, he has performed the duties of his office—always laborious and often extremely difficult—with an industry, patience and fidelity; a memory and mastery of details of fact, and a power of logical analysis and discrimination; a union of learning and judgment, and entire impartiality as to persons and subjects, which, amid the conflicts of our new community and of local interests, have commanded the respect and admiration of the Bar and the public; have enlarged the general confidence in the Courts, and added luster [lustre] to the Judiciary of the State.
3. That from our constant personal observation of Edward Norton in his daily life as a Judge, during his entire career, it is due to him, and to ourselves, as his brethren of the same profession, that we should know thus publicly speak of him, as we have ever known him—as eminently entitled to the high praise of being, in all respects, an able and a just Judge.
4. That whether he remains among us as our honored fellow-citizen, or is absent in other lands, our earnest wishes for his health and happiness will be with him everywhere.
5. That Judge Norton be requested to sit for his portrait; that it may be placed with the consent of the public authorities in the Court-room of the Twelfth Judicial District in this city, there to remain as a lasting memorial of one who has built up the Court from its foundation, to be honorable to himself, salutary and useful to the people.
Resolved, That a Committee of three be appointed to carry out the requirements of the foregoing resolutions, and to transmit them to Judge Norton, and to have them placed upon the minutes of the Court, upon the coming in of his successor.
Eugene Casserly, J. A. McDougal, and J. J. Papy were appointed said Committee.
Thereupon the meeting adjourned.
San Francisco Call, Volume 78, Number 22, 22 June 1895, Page 5 —
Not copied due to its length. Subject covered in the article is about the State of California court justices up to and including current judges. Judge Edward Norton is listed three times.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Norton_(judge)
Daily Alta California, Volume 24, Number 8161, Wednesday, July 31, 1872, Page 2, Column 3 —
Notice to Members of the Bar.
The members of the Bar of the Court in this city and county are respectfully requested to be present at meeting to be held in the Twelfth District Court-room, one o'clock, P. M., Wednesday, July 31st, for the purpose of making proper expression of the respect for the memory of the late Hon. Edward Norton (formerly Judge of the Twelfth District, and subsequently Justice of the Supreme Court), whose death occurred at London, England, on the 12th of May last, the news reaching San Francisco during the legal vacation.
Daily Alta California, Volume 24, Number 8196, Wednesday Morning, September 4, 1872, Page 1, Column 4 —
IN MEMORIAM.
─────
At the meeting of the Society of California Pioneers, held on the 2nd instant, the following memoir and testimonial in respect to the memory of the late Judge Norton, was unanimously adopted:
Edward Norton, a life-member of the Society of California Pioneers, late Judge of the Supreme Court of California—our Court of last resort—and formerly Judge of the District Court of the Twelfth Judicial District, died in London, England, on the 12th day of May last, aged 63 years and upward, having been born on the 29th day of October, 1808.
The members of this Society mourn. The Bench and Bar and the people mourn. Shall we ever “look upon his like again?” Shall we ever see another so modest, learned, intelligent and generous?
Judge Norton was born in Canandaigua, New York. A beautiful place and county to be born in, and to live in. That village in the country, with its educated and refined inhabitants, was a suitable and genial home for one of the pure and sensitive nature of Norton to grow up in. There was harmony between the scenery and salubrious atmosphere of his birth-place and cultivated people, and the growing boy. Afterward his father and family removed to Buffalo, and many years ago, his father, Col. Ebenezer F. Norton, was a member of congress from the Congressional district in which Buffalo was situated.
At the age of twenty years Edward Norton graduated at Union College, New York, with high rank, in a class with a number of young men, who afterward achieved honors and distinctions. Ho was one of the founders of a social and literary society, which originated there, called the "Sigma Phi." He studied law in Buffalo, and then entered upon the practice of his profession, where he distinguished himself by his industry, learning and probity.
The oldest and most eminent lawyers there, Millard Fillmore, Albert H. Tracy, George P. Barker, Thomas C. Love, Henry K. Smith, and others, esteemed him as possessed of the finest legal mind of any young man known to them of his age. In 1840 he removed to the City of New York, and practiced his profession there until March, 1849. At that time he joined a number of gentlemen, among who [whom] was Henry G. Langley, and with them formed the "Haviland Mining Association," of which he was President. He started with the Company from New York city, overland, for California, March 17th, 1849, and reached California by way of Fort Smith and Santa Fe. On his way across the plains, other means or travelling having given out, he walked four hundred miles, through deep and burning sands. He, and others of his Company, voted for the Constitution of California, at Fort Yuma, November 13, 1849. He reached San Diego, December 6, 1849, and sailed from thence in the brig Gen. Fremont, in company with Col. John C. Hays, Major John Carpenter, John Nugent, Henry G. Langley, and others, and reached San Francisco, January 9, 1850. Soon after, he commenced the practice of the law here, and immediately gained and earned the highest esteem and consideration of the members of his profession, and of all his fellow-citizens and residents, by the purity of his life, his profound legal knowledge and sound judgment.
He was the first Judge of the District Court of the Twelfth Judicial District, which position he held until January, 1861. No one ever surpassed him as a nisi prius Judge—a Judge who tries issues of fact with a jury, or in California who tries issues of fact and hears and decides questions of law without a jury. His memory of facts, of testimony and questions of law raised and argued in course of a trial was prodigious. He came into Court one morning and sat upon the bench with the papers in fifty-six cases before him; and taking up the cases one by one in their order, without notes or memoranda, rendered decisions in each one of them, reciting the facts in each case, stating the questions of law, and deciding them, and giving his reasons, and noticing all the niceties and shades of fact and law critically, with the greatest clearness and force. Performances of this kind were not uncommon with him.
Early in1861, Judge Norton went to Europe. In his absence, and without his knowledge, he was elected one of the Judges of our Supreme Court. He was chosen on account of his eminent fitness, and it was the highest testimony which the people could give of their esteem and confidence.
There remain and reside in San Francisco several of Judge Norton's near relatives: The widow of his deceased brother, Charles Norton, his nephews Henry and Edward Norton, his niece [neice], Mrs. Wm. H. Moor, and her children, and the children of his niece [neice], Mrs. Benjamin M. Hartsborne, deceased.
The California Pioneers "weep with those who weep and mourn with those who mourn,'' in deepest sorrow the loss of a generous, noble, honest man gone from among us forever. Respectfully submitted,
JOHN SATTERLEE,
GEO. F. SHARP,
JOHN W. DWINELLE,
NATH'L. HOLLAND,
JOHN CURREY,
Committee.
Daily Alta California, Volume 3, Number 285, Friday Morning, October 15, 1852, Page 2, Column 2 —
Later from the South—The Land Commissioners
— Two Horse Thieves Killed—
Political Nomination.
──────────────
Democratic Convention.
The Democratic County and City Nominating Convention met last evening at their headquarters in the Verandah building.
Proceedings of last meeting read and approved.
John Morrissey was substituted as a delegate hi place of Edward Bulger, of the Sixth Ward.
Letters were read from the different candidates for office, in which the county were included.
The convention then proceeded to the nomination of a District Judge, with the following result:
Edward Norton 46
Nath'l Holland 16
A. M. Heslep 0
Mr. Edward Norton was declared to be unanimously nominated.
Nominations were then made for State Senators with the following result:
Frederick D. Kohler 35
Wm. C. Parker 36
Elisha Cook 27
Herman Wohler 26
J. B. Bidleman 1
Messrs. Kohler and Parker were declared to be unanimously nominated.
The Convention then adjourned until Saturday evening at 7 ½ o’clock.
Daily Alta California, Volume 12, Number 3962, Tuesday Morning, December 18, 1860, Page 1, Column 1 —
The Bar of San Francisco and Judge
Edward Norton.
The members of the Bar of San Francisco, according to call, met at 3 o'clock yesterday after noon, in the Twelfth District Court room, to receive the report of the Committee on Resolutions, appointed to express the feelings of the lawyers of the city in regard to the retirement of Judge Edward Norton from the bench of the Twelfth District Court. Fletcher M. Height acted as chairman, and Frank Turk as secretary. The committee, consisting of D. O. Shattuck, John Satterlee, Alexander Campbell, Delos Lake, J. D. Creigh, Myron Norton and Eugene Casserly, reported the following resolutions, which were unanimously adopted:
Resolved, By the members of the Bar of the City and County of San Francisco, December 17th, 1860,
1. That in the approaching retirement of his Honor, Edward Norton, from the Court of the Twelfth Judicial District of California, the Bench, the Bar, and the suitors of his Judicial District, are to undergo a great loss.
2. That during the period of more than six years, for which Judge Norton has filled the Bench of the Twelfth Judicial District, he has performed the duties of his office—always laborious and often extremely difficult—with an industry, patience and fidelity; a memory and mastery of details of fact, and a power of logical analysis and discrimination; a union of learning and judgment, and entire impartiality as to persons and subjects, which, amid the conflicts of our new community and of local interests, have commanded the respect and admiration of the Bar and the public; have enlarged the general confidence in the Courts, and added luster [lustre] to the Judiciary of the State.
3. That from our constant personal observation of Edward Norton in his daily life as a Judge, during his entire career, it is due to him, and to ourselves, as his brethren of the same profession, that we should know thus publicly speak of him, as we have ever known him—as eminently entitled to the high praise of being, in all respects, an able and a just Judge.
4. That whether he remains among us as our honored fellow-citizen, or is absent in other lands, our earnest wishes for his health and happiness will be with him everywhere.
5. That Judge Norton be requested to sit for his portrait; that it may be placed with the consent of the public authorities in the Court-room of the Twelfth Judicial District in this city, there to remain as a lasting memorial of one who has built up the Court from its foundation, to be honorable to himself, salutary and useful to the people.
Resolved, That a Committee of three be appointed to carry out the requirements of the foregoing resolutions, and to transmit them to Judge Norton, and to have them placed upon the minutes of the Court, upon the coming in of his successor.
Eugene Casserly, J. A. McDougal, and J. J. Papy were appointed said Committee.
Thereupon the meeting adjourned.
San Francisco Call, Volume 78, Number 22, 22 June 1895, Page 5 —
Not copied due to its length. Subject covered in the article is about the State of California court justices up to and including current judges. Judge Edward Norton is listed three times.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Norton_(judge)
Notice to Members of the Bar.
The members of the Bar of the Court in this city and county are respectfully requested to be present at meeting to be held in the Twelfth District Court-room, one o'clock, P. M., Wednesday, July 31st, for the purpose of making proper expression of the respect for the memory of the late Hon. Edward Norton (formerly Judge of the Twelfth District, and subsequently Justice of the Supreme Court), whose death occurred at London, England, on the 12th of May last, the news reaching San Francisco during the legal vacation.
Daily Alta California, Volume 24, Number 8196, Wednesday Morning, September 4, 1872, Page 1, Column 4 —
IN MEMORIAM.
─────
At the meeting of the Society of California Pioneers, held on the 2nd instant, the following memoir and testimonial in respect to the memory of the late Judge Norton, was unanimously adopted:
Edward Norton, a life-member of the Society of California Pioneers, late Judge of the Supreme Court of California—our Court of last resort—and formerly Judge of the District Court of the Twelfth Judicial District, died in London, England, on the 12th day of May last, aged 63 years and upward, having been born on the 29th day of October, 1808.
The members of this Society mourn. The Bench and Bar and the people mourn. Shall we ever “look upon his like again?” Shall we ever see another so modest, learned, intelligent and generous?
Judge Norton was born in Canandaigua, New York. A beautiful place and county to be born in, and to live in. That village in the country, with its educated and refined inhabitants, was a suitable and genial home for one of the pure and sensitive nature of Norton to grow up in. There was harmony between the scenery and salubrious atmosphere of his birth-place and cultivated people, and the growing boy. Afterward his father and family removed to Buffalo, and many years ago, his father, Col. Ebenezer F. Norton, was a member of congress from the Congressional district in which Buffalo was situated.
At the age of twenty years Edward Norton graduated at Union College, New York, with high rank, in a class with a number of young men, who afterward achieved honors and distinctions. Ho was one of the founders of a social and literary society, which originated there, called the "Sigma Phi." He studied law in Buffalo, and then entered upon the practice of his profession, where he distinguished himself by his industry, learning and probity.
The oldest and most eminent lawyers there, Millard Fillmore, Albert H. Tracy, George P. Barker, Thomas C. Love, Henry K. Smith, and others, esteemed him as possessed of the finest legal mind of any young man known to them of his age. In 1840 he removed to the City of New York, and practiced his profession there until March, 1849. At that time he joined a number of gentlemen, among who [whom] was Henry G. Langley, and with them formed the "Haviland Mining Association," of which he was President. He started with the Company from New York city, overland, for California, March 17th, 1849, and reached California by way of Fort Smith and Santa Fe. On his way across the plains, other means or travelling having given out, he walked four hundred miles, through deep and burning sands. He, and others of his Company, voted for the Constitution of California, at Fort Yuma, November 13, 1849. He reached San Diego, December 6, 1849, and sailed from thence in the brig Gen. Fremont, in company with Col. John C. Hays, Major John Carpenter, John Nugent, Henry G. Langley, and others, and reached San Francisco, January 9, 1850. Soon after, he commenced the practice of the law here, and immediately gained and earned the highest esteem and consideration of the members of his profession, and of all his fellow-citizens and residents, by the purity of his life, his profound legal knowledge and sound judgment.
He was the first Judge of the District Court of the Twelfth Judicial District, which position he held until January, 1861. No one ever surpassed him as a nisi prius Judge—a Judge who tries issues of fact with a jury, or in California who tries issues of fact and hears and decides questions of law without a jury. His memory of facts, of testimony and questions of law raised and argued in course of a trial was prodigious. He came into Court one morning and sat upon the bench with the papers in fifty-six cases before him; and taking up the cases one by one in their order, without notes or memoranda, rendered decisions in each one of them, reciting the facts in each case, stating the questions of law, and deciding them, and giving his reasons, and noticing all the niceties and shades of fact and law critically, with the greatest clearness and force. Performances of this kind were not uncommon with him.
Early in1861, Judge Norton went to Europe. In his absence, and without his knowledge, he was elected one of the Judges of our Supreme Court. He was chosen on account of his eminent fitness, and it was the highest testimony which the people could give of their esteem and confidence.
There remain and reside in San Francisco several of Judge Norton's near relatives: The widow of his deceased brother, Charles Norton, his nephews Henry and Edward Norton, his niece [neice], Mrs. Wm. H. Moor, and her children, and the children of his niece [neice], Mrs. Benjamin M. Hartsborne, deceased.
The California Pioneers "weep with those who weep and mourn with those who mourn,'' in deepest sorrow the loss of a generous, noble, honest man gone from among us forever. Respectfully submitted,
JOHN SATTERLEE,
GEO. F. SHARP,
JOHN W. DWINELLE,
NATH'L. HOLLAND,
JOHN CURREY,
Committee.
Daily Alta California, Volume 3, Number 285, Friday Morning, October 15, 1852, Page 2, Column 2 —
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Political Nomination.
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Democratic Convention.
The Democratic County and City Nominating Convention met last evening at their headquarters in the Verandah building.
Proceedings of last meeting read and approved.
John Morrissey was substituted as a delegate hi place of Edward Bulger, of the Sixth Ward.
Letters were read from the different candidates for office, in which the county were included.
The convention then proceeded to the nomination of a District Judge, with the following result:
Edward Norton 46
Nath'l Holland 16
A. M. Heslep 0
Mr. Edward Norton was declared to be unanimously nominated.
Nominations were then made for State Senators with the following result:
Frederick D. Kohler 35
Wm. C. Parker 36
Elisha Cook 27
Herman Wohler 26
J. B. Bidleman 1
Messrs. Kohler and Parker were declared to be unanimously nominated.
The Convention then adjourned until Saturday evening at 7 ½ o’clock.
Daily Alta California, Volume 12, Number 3962, Tuesday Morning, December 18, 1860, Page 1, Column 1 —
The Bar of San Francisco and Judge
Edward Norton.
The members of the Bar of San Francisco, according to call, met at 3 o'clock yesterday after noon, in the Twelfth District Court room, to receive the report of the Committee on Resolutions, appointed to express the feelings of the lawyers of the city in regard to the retirement of Judge Edward Norton from the bench of the Twelfth District Court. Fletcher M. Height acted as chairman, and Frank Turk as secretary. The committee, consisting of D. O. Shattuck, John Satterlee, Alexander Campbell, Delos Lake, J. D. Creigh, Myron Norton and Eugene Casserly, reported the following resolutions, which were unanimously adopted:
Resolved, By the members of the Bar of the City and County of San Francisco, December 17th, 1860,
1. That in the approaching retirement of his Honor, Edward Norton, from the Court of the Twelfth Judicial District of California, the Bench, the Bar, and the suitors of his Judicial District, are to undergo a great loss.
2. That during the period of more than six years, for which Judge Norton has filled the Bench of the Twelfth Judicial District, he has performed the duties of his office—always laborious and often extremely difficult—with an industry, patience and fidelity; a memory and mastery of details of fact, and a power of logical analysis and discrimination; a union of learning and judgment, and entire impartiality as to persons and subjects, which, amid the conflicts of our new community and of local interests, have commanded the respect and admiration of the Bar and the public; have enlarged the general confidence in the Courts, and added luster [lustre] to the Judiciary of the State.
3. That from our constant personal observation of Edward Norton in his daily life as a Judge, during his entire career, it is due to him, and to ourselves, as his brethren of the same profession, that we should know thus publicly speak of him, as we have ever known him—as eminently entitled to the high praise of being, in all respects, an able and a just Judge.
4. That whether he remains among us as our honored fellow-citizen, or is absent in other lands, our earnest wishes for his health and happiness will be with him everywhere.
5. That Judge Norton be requested to sit for his portrait; that it may be placed with the consent of the public authorities in the Court-room of the Twelfth Judicial District in this city, there to remain as a lasting memorial of one who has built up the Court from its foundation, to be honorable to himself, salutary and useful to the people.
Resolved, That a Committee of three be appointed to carry out the requirements of the foregoing resolutions, and to transmit them to Judge Norton, and to have them placed upon the minutes of the Court, upon the coming in of his successor.
Eugene Casserly, J. A. McDougal, and J. J. Papy were appointed said Committee.
Thereupon the meeting adjourned.
San Francisco Call, Volume 78, Number 22, 22 June 1895, Page 5 —
Not copied due to its length. Subject covered in the article is about the State of California court justices up to and including current judges. Judge Edward Norton is listed three times.
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