JUSTICE EDWARD B AMEND Supreme Court Justice Edward B Amend died at his residence New York on October 20 1914 Justice Amend who was long a member and for several terms a councilor of our Historical Society was born in New York June 2 1858 in what was called Little Germany. He was the son of Bernard Amend a prominent leader in the old German Catholic colony of the lower East Side After he graduated in 1877 at St Francis Xavier's College he took up the study of law at Columbia receiving his degree there in 1879 He at once began to practise and attained a large measure of success In 1902 he was elected to the office of Justice of the Supreme Court and took his seat on the Bench January 1 1903 for a term to expire in 1916 He gained the reputation of a judge of absolute fairness and a wise and careful administrator of the law Before his elevation to the Bench he was a trustee for a number of years of the Catholic Protectory and of the College of the City of New York
Son of Bernard Amend m. Catherine Ridder
Son of Bernard Amend m. Catherine Ridder
JUSTICE EDWARD B AMEND Supreme Court Justice Edward B Amend died at his residence New York on October 20 1914 Justice Amend who was long a member and for several terms a councilor of our Historical Society was born in New York June 2 1858 in what was called Little Germany. He was the son of Bernard Amend a prominent leader in the old German Catholic colony of the lower East Side After he graduated in 1877 at St Francis Xavier's College he took up the study of law at Columbia receiving his degree there in 1879 He at once began to practise and attained a large measure of success In 1902 he was elected to the office of Justice of the Supreme Court and took his seat on the Bench January 1 1903 for a term to expire in 1916 He gained the reputation of a judge of absolute fairness and a wise and careful administrator of the law Before his elevation to the Bench he was a trustee for a number of years of the Catholic Protectory and of the College of the City of New York
Son of Bernard Amend m. Catherine Ridder
Son of Bernard Amend m. Catherine Ridder
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