Married Alma Mae Cooper August 2, 1926-married by J.W. Brice, Minister Henrietta, Clay, Texas
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VINCENT STINE MADE JUDGE
Special to the News
AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 31.
Gov. Neff Wednesday appointed Vincent Stine of Henrietta Judge of the Ninety-seventh Judicial District to fill the vacancy caused by resignation of Judge Paul Donald of Bowie. Stine is District Judge-elect.
Genealogybank.com
Dallas Morning News(Dallas, Texas)
Thursday, January 1, 1925
Part 2 Page: seventeen
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Stine one of Youngest District Judges
Henrietta, Texas, Dec. 30-
Vincent Stine, judge-elect of the 97th district court, is expected to qualify January 1 and assume duties of the office. He will succeed Judge Paul Donald of Bowie, whom he defeated for reelection in spirited contest in the July and August primaries.
Judge Stine, who is not yet 30 years old it is believed, will be one of the youngest if not the youngest district judge in Texas. He is a native of Henrietta and was associated in law practive here with his father, the late Judge P.M. Stine, until the death of the latter something over a year ago. His father was district judge of this district before him a number of years ago. Judge Vincent Stine is descended from prominent jurists on both sides of the famly.
At the time of his nomination for district judge he was serving his second term as county attorney of Clay county, which office he recently resigned.
The 97th judicial district includes clay and Montague counties.
Wichita Daily Times Pg 3
30 Dec 1924
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Note: Newspaper Article By Lois Luecke Regional Staff Writer ? date and ? newspaper-article found among Aunt Myrt's pictures
LAWYER ARGUES CASES FOR SMALL TOWN
HENRIETTA, Tex.___To a young person who has a hankering to practice law in a small town, veteran attorney and former jurist Vincent Stine will say there is a future there.
"There will always be a future, I think, in a small town," he says. A small town lawyer "is not going to get rich. I would say if a fellow wanted to get rich, he ought not to practice law but get into something else. But he can make his living and a nice living in a small town and that is all I try to do."
For Stine, there is no place to live like a small town. He wouldn't for a minute swap it for city life.
"When I walk down the street, I like for people to speak to me, and when I pass cars I like for folks to wave at me and I like to wave back. I just kind of like people-and in a city, that wouldn't happen very often...You wouldn't know the people," he explains.
The profession of law, though, he cautions, "takes a whole lot of study. A lawyer never gets through studying," and if a young person doesn't like to sturdy, law shouldn't be his choice.
Stine has been in the practice for more than a half century, and he still enjoys it, he says. "Otherwise," he observes piquantly, "I would retire."
The Stine family--including through the years, his father and an uncle and a brother--has been historically a part of the system of Clay County justice.
There were Stines Practicing law here as early as the 1880's, not long after the reorganization of Clay County.
Vincent Stine's father, P.M. Stine , came to Henrietta at the age of 19 in 1873 from Moberly, Mo. In subsequent years, he studied law and was admitted to practice in Texas. The elder Stine served as county judge at a time when the district court went as far west as Hardeman County.
Two Uncles, E.S. Hurt, his mother's brother, and Vincent, his father's brother, for whom Stine was named, also practiced here the latter part of the 19th century. And his maternal grandfather, J.M. Hurt of Dallas, was a member of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals for 20 years.
When Stine was a baby, he says, his father moved with his family to Dallas but returned here to resume practice in 1904. Since 1904 there has been a Stine practicing law or serving as judge in Henrietta.
Like his father, Stine studied law on his own before being admitted to the Texas Bar. He read law at his father's office, and "sometimes carried books home.
"I would say of the lawyers I knew back in those days, very few of them had law degrees," Stine says. "Most of them studied and took the bar examination and got a law license."
Stine had earned his license before World War I but had not started in the practice, and after the war began, he went over to Camp Bowie at Fort Worth and enlisted with the 111the Engineers, 36th Division.
"I wasn't looking for a desk job," he says now, recalling those days. Stine's unit stayed busy "repairing bridges and roads. Most of the time we were behind the infantry and in front of the artillery. We were on the move. The Germans were on the retreat."
He served in France in the St. Michiel sector and in the Argonne-"that is where we were when it(the war) ended, just out in the forest, in the woo."
After his discharge in 1919, he went to work in the Northwest Field during the oil boom at Burkburnett to earn and "save a little money," and then came back to Henrietta and started practicing law.
For 12 years during the late '20s and '30s, Stine served as judge of the 97th District Court. Prior to that time, he served for several terms as county attorney.
When he left the bench, he joined the law firm of his brother, Pierre, and another attorney, Frank Bunting, and later he and his brother formed their own firm. Pierre Stine died in 1961.
While he was serving as judge, Stine met and married the former Alma Cooper of Bowie. The Stines celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary this past summer.
Stine walks six blocks from his office to his home every day for lunch and takes a long lunch hour during which time he reads the newspapers.
For relaxation he likes to read a good western story.
The veteran attorney is also a baseball and football fan, having played the sports as a youngster. He recollects that although he was "kind of runty for football at 125 pounds, we were so short of players at Henrietta High School, I played end. In those days they used little guys."
Moving with an alacritous step, Stine is a familiar figure along courthouse square. If he has a formula for continuing good health, he doesn't reveal it. "When I get old," he explains, with a grin, "then I will have a formula."
Clay Countians this year elected Stine president of the pioneers association. This year, also, he received his 50-year pin from the Henrietta Masonic Lodge.
Stine is a charter member of the American Legion Post. For more than a half century he has served on the board of the Henrietta First Christion Church and taught a Sunday school class.
He and his wife have two daughters, Mrs.George Pierce of Henrietta, and Mrs. Carl Hoeffner of Dallas, and four grandchildren.
One grandson is figuring on studying law, and while Stine says he thinks young folks ought to decide for themselves what they are best fitted for, he admits he was "pleased when I found out he wanted to practice law."
It would cement a century of family tradition.
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Former Clay District Judge's Services Today
HENRIETTA, Tex.(Special)
Services for Vincent Stine, 81, former 97th District Judge who died Wednesday in a Wichita Falls Hospital, will be at 2 p.m. Thursday in First Christian Church in Henrietta.
The Rev. Howard Walker, pastor, will officiate. Burial will be in Hope Cemetery under direction of Paul Hawkins Funeral Home.
Memorial services will be at 10 a.m. Thursday in district courtroom of Clay County courthouse. District Judge Lewis Holland of Montague, Tes., will conduct services.
Born July 16, 1895, near Bellvue. Stine was the youngest district judge ever elected in Texas. He served on the district bench 12 years during the late 1920's and 1930's.
Stine was a member of Henrietta First Christian Church 70 years and was a Mason more than 50 years. He also was an elder and Sunday School teacher.
Stine was a member of Clay County Draft Board during World War II. Charter Director of First State Bank, former member of the school board and served as county attorney serving several years. He was President of the Clay County Pioneer Association and was former President of Tri-County Bar Association.
Stine studied law on his own before being admitted to the State Bar of Texas. He served in the 11th Engineers, 36th Division at Camp Bowie and in France during World War I. He married Alma Cooper of Bowie while serving as Judge.
Survivors inclue his wife; two daughters, Mrs. Nancy Pierce of Henrietta and Mrs. Mary Hoeffner of Dallas; a sister, Alta Stine of Henrietta and four grandchildren.
Wichita Falls Record News
Wichita Falls, Texas
Page 4
Thursday, January 6, 1977
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VINCENT STINE MADE JUDGE
Special to the News
AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 31.
Gov. Neff Wednesday appointed Vincent Stine of Henrietta Judge of the Ninety-seventh Judicial District to fill the vacancy caused by resignation of Judge Paul Donald of Bowie. Stine is District Judge-elect.
Genealogybank.com
Dallas Morning News(Dallas, Texas)
Thursday, January 1, 1925
Part 2 Page: seventeen
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Stine one of Youngest District Judges
Henrietta, Texas, Dec. 30-
Vincent Stine, judge-elect of the 97th district court, is expected to qualify January 1 and assume duties of the office. He will succeed Judge Paul Donald of Bowie, whom he defeated for reelection in spirited contest in the July and August primaries.
Judge Stine, who is not yet 30 years old it is believed, will be one of the youngest if not the youngest district judge in Texas. He is a native of Henrietta and was associated in law practive here with his father, the late Judge P.M. Stine, until the death of the latter something over a year ago. His father was district judge of this district before him a number of years ago. Judge Vincent Stine is descended from prominent jurists on both sides of the famly.
At the time of his nomination for district judge he was serving his second term as county attorney of Clay county, which office he recently resigned.
The 97th judicial district includes clay and Montague counties.
Wichita Daily Times Pg 3
30 Dec 1924
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Note: Newspaper Article By Lois Luecke Regional Staff Writer ? date and ? newspaper-article found among Aunt Myrt's pictures
LAWYER ARGUES CASES FOR SMALL TOWN
HENRIETTA, Tex.___To a young person who has a hankering to practice law in a small town, veteran attorney and former jurist Vincent Stine will say there is a future there.
"There will always be a future, I think, in a small town," he says. A small town lawyer "is not going to get rich. I would say if a fellow wanted to get rich, he ought not to practice law but get into something else. But he can make his living and a nice living in a small town and that is all I try to do."
For Stine, there is no place to live like a small town. He wouldn't for a minute swap it for city life.
"When I walk down the street, I like for people to speak to me, and when I pass cars I like for folks to wave at me and I like to wave back. I just kind of like people-and in a city, that wouldn't happen very often...You wouldn't know the people," he explains.
The profession of law, though, he cautions, "takes a whole lot of study. A lawyer never gets through studying," and if a young person doesn't like to sturdy, law shouldn't be his choice.
Stine has been in the practice for more than a half century, and he still enjoys it, he says. "Otherwise," he observes piquantly, "I would retire."
The Stine family--including through the years, his father and an uncle and a brother--has been historically a part of the system of Clay County justice.
There were Stines Practicing law here as early as the 1880's, not long after the reorganization of Clay County.
Vincent Stine's father, P.M. Stine , came to Henrietta at the age of 19 in 1873 from Moberly, Mo. In subsequent years, he studied law and was admitted to practice in Texas. The elder Stine served as county judge at a time when the district court went as far west as Hardeman County.
Two Uncles, E.S. Hurt, his mother's brother, and Vincent, his father's brother, for whom Stine was named, also practiced here the latter part of the 19th century. And his maternal grandfather, J.M. Hurt of Dallas, was a member of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals for 20 years.
When Stine was a baby, he says, his father moved with his family to Dallas but returned here to resume practice in 1904. Since 1904 there has been a Stine practicing law or serving as judge in Henrietta.
Like his father, Stine studied law on his own before being admitted to the Texas Bar. He read law at his father's office, and "sometimes carried books home.
"I would say of the lawyers I knew back in those days, very few of them had law degrees," Stine says. "Most of them studied and took the bar examination and got a law license."
Stine had earned his license before World War I but had not started in the practice, and after the war began, he went over to Camp Bowie at Fort Worth and enlisted with the 111the Engineers, 36th Division.
"I wasn't looking for a desk job," he says now, recalling those days. Stine's unit stayed busy "repairing bridges and roads. Most of the time we were behind the infantry and in front of the artillery. We were on the move. The Germans were on the retreat."
He served in France in the St. Michiel sector and in the Argonne-"that is where we were when it(the war) ended, just out in the forest, in the woo."
After his discharge in 1919, he went to work in the Northwest Field during the oil boom at Burkburnett to earn and "save a little money," and then came back to Henrietta and started practicing law.
For 12 years during the late '20s and '30s, Stine served as judge of the 97th District Court. Prior to that time, he served for several terms as county attorney.
When he left the bench, he joined the law firm of his brother, Pierre, and another attorney, Frank Bunting, and later he and his brother formed their own firm. Pierre Stine died in 1961.
While he was serving as judge, Stine met and married the former Alma Cooper of Bowie. The Stines celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary this past summer.
Stine walks six blocks from his office to his home every day for lunch and takes a long lunch hour during which time he reads the newspapers.
For relaxation he likes to read a good western story.
The veteran attorney is also a baseball and football fan, having played the sports as a youngster. He recollects that although he was "kind of runty for football at 125 pounds, we were so short of players at Henrietta High School, I played end. In those days they used little guys."
Moving with an alacritous step, Stine is a familiar figure along courthouse square. If he has a formula for continuing good health, he doesn't reveal it. "When I get old," he explains, with a grin, "then I will have a formula."
Clay Countians this year elected Stine president of the pioneers association. This year, also, he received his 50-year pin from the Henrietta Masonic Lodge.
Stine is a charter member of the American Legion Post. For more than a half century he has served on the board of the Henrietta First Christion Church and taught a Sunday school class.
He and his wife have two daughters, Mrs.George Pierce of Henrietta, and Mrs. Carl Hoeffner of Dallas, and four grandchildren.
One grandson is figuring on studying law, and while Stine says he thinks young folks ought to decide for themselves what they are best fitted for, he admits he was "pleased when I found out he wanted to practice law."
It would cement a century of family tradition.
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Former Clay District Judge's Services Today
HENRIETTA, Tex.(Special)
Services for Vincent Stine, 81, former 97th District Judge who died Wednesday in a Wichita Falls Hospital, will be at 2 p.m. Thursday in First Christian Church in Henrietta.
The Rev. Howard Walker, pastor, will officiate. Burial will be in Hope Cemetery under direction of Paul Hawkins Funeral Home.
Memorial services will be at 10 a.m. Thursday in district courtroom of Clay County courthouse. District Judge Lewis Holland of Montague, Tes., will conduct services.
Born July 16, 1895, near Bellvue. Stine was the youngest district judge ever elected in Texas. He served on the district bench 12 years during the late 1920's and 1930's.
Stine was a member of Henrietta First Christian Church 70 years and was a Mason more than 50 years. He also was an elder and Sunday School teacher.
Stine was a member of Clay County Draft Board during World War II. Charter Director of First State Bank, former member of the school board and served as county attorney serving several years. He was President of the Clay County Pioneer Association and was former President of Tri-County Bar Association.
Stine studied law on his own before being admitted to the State Bar of Texas. He served in the 11th Engineers, 36th Division at Camp Bowie and in France during World War I. He married Alma Cooper of Bowie while serving as Judge.
Survivors inclue his wife; two daughters, Mrs. Nancy Pierce of Henrietta and Mrs. Mary Hoeffner of Dallas; a sister, Alta Stine of Henrietta and four grandchildren.
Wichita Falls Record News
Wichita Falls, Texas
Page 4
Thursday, January 6, 1977
Married Alma Mae Cooper August 2, 1926-married by J.W. Brice, Minister Henrietta, Clay, Texas
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VINCENT STINE MADE JUDGE
Special to the News
AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 31.
Gov. Neff Wednesday appointed Vincent Stine of Henrietta Judge of the Ninety-seventh Judicial District to fill the vacancy caused by resignation of Judge Paul Donald of Bowie. Stine is District Judge-elect.
Genealogybank.com
Dallas Morning News(Dallas, Texas)
Thursday, January 1, 1925
Part 2 Page: seventeen
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Stine one of Youngest District Judges
Henrietta, Texas, Dec. 30-
Vincent Stine, judge-elect of the 97th district court, is expected to qualify January 1 and assume duties of the office. He will succeed Judge Paul Donald of Bowie, whom he defeated for reelection in spirited contest in the July and August primaries.
Judge Stine, who is not yet 30 years old it is believed, will be one of the youngest if not the youngest district judge in Texas. He is a native of Henrietta and was associated in law practive here with his father, the late Judge P.M. Stine, until the death of the latter something over a year ago. His father was district judge of this district before him a number of years ago. Judge Vincent Stine is descended from prominent jurists on both sides of the famly.
At the time of his nomination for district judge he was serving his second term as county attorney of Clay county, which office he recently resigned.
The 97th judicial district includes clay and Montague counties.
Wichita Daily Times Pg 3
30 Dec 1924
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Note: Newspaper Article By Lois Luecke Regional Staff Writer ? date and ? newspaper-article found among Aunt Myrt's pictures
LAWYER ARGUES CASES FOR SMALL TOWN
HENRIETTA, Tex.___To a young person who has a hankering to practice law in a small town, veteran attorney and former jurist Vincent Stine will say there is a future there.
"There will always be a future, I think, in a small town," he says. A small town lawyer "is not going to get rich. I would say if a fellow wanted to get rich, he ought not to practice law but get into something else. But he can make his living and a nice living in a small town and that is all I try to do."
For Stine, there is no place to live like a small town. He wouldn't for a minute swap it for city life.
"When I walk down the street, I like for people to speak to me, and when I pass cars I like for folks to wave at me and I like to wave back. I just kind of like people-and in a city, that wouldn't happen very often...You wouldn't know the people," he explains.
The profession of law, though, he cautions, "takes a whole lot of study. A lawyer never gets through studying," and if a young person doesn't like to sturdy, law shouldn't be his choice.
Stine has been in the practice for more than a half century, and he still enjoys it, he says. "Otherwise," he observes piquantly, "I would retire."
The Stine family--including through the years, his father and an uncle and a brother--has been historically a part of the system of Clay County justice.
There were Stines Practicing law here as early as the 1880's, not long after the reorganization of Clay County.
Vincent Stine's father, P.M. Stine , came to Henrietta at the age of 19 in 1873 from Moberly, Mo. In subsequent years, he studied law and was admitted to practice in Texas. The elder Stine served as county judge at a time when the district court went as far west as Hardeman County.
Two Uncles, E.S. Hurt, his mother's brother, and Vincent, his father's brother, for whom Stine was named, also practiced here the latter part of the 19th century. And his maternal grandfather, J.M. Hurt of Dallas, was a member of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals for 20 years.
When Stine was a baby, he says, his father moved with his family to Dallas but returned here to resume practice in 1904. Since 1904 there has been a Stine practicing law or serving as judge in Henrietta.
Like his father, Stine studied law on his own before being admitted to the Texas Bar. He read law at his father's office, and "sometimes carried books home.
"I would say of the lawyers I knew back in those days, very few of them had law degrees," Stine says. "Most of them studied and took the bar examination and got a law license."
Stine had earned his license before World War I but had not started in the practice, and after the war began, he went over to Camp Bowie at Fort Worth and enlisted with the 111the Engineers, 36th Division.
"I wasn't looking for a desk job," he says now, recalling those days. Stine's unit stayed busy "repairing bridges and roads. Most of the time we were behind the infantry and in front of the artillery. We were on the move. The Germans were on the retreat."
He served in France in the St. Michiel sector and in the Argonne-"that is where we were when it(the war) ended, just out in the forest, in the woo."
After his discharge in 1919, he went to work in the Northwest Field during the oil boom at Burkburnett to earn and "save a little money," and then came back to Henrietta and started practicing law.
For 12 years during the late '20s and '30s, Stine served as judge of the 97th District Court. Prior to that time, he served for several terms as county attorney.
When he left the bench, he joined the law firm of his brother, Pierre, and another attorney, Frank Bunting, and later he and his brother formed their own firm. Pierre Stine died in 1961.
While he was serving as judge, Stine met and married the former Alma Cooper of Bowie. The Stines celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary this past summer.
Stine walks six blocks from his office to his home every day for lunch and takes a long lunch hour during which time he reads the newspapers.
For relaxation he likes to read a good western story.
The veteran attorney is also a baseball and football fan, having played the sports as a youngster. He recollects that although he was "kind of runty for football at 125 pounds, we were so short of players at Henrietta High School, I played end. In those days they used little guys."
Moving with an alacritous step, Stine is a familiar figure along courthouse square. If he has a formula for continuing good health, he doesn't reveal it. "When I get old," he explains, with a grin, "then I will have a formula."
Clay Countians this year elected Stine president of the pioneers association. This year, also, he received his 50-year pin from the Henrietta Masonic Lodge.
Stine is a charter member of the American Legion Post. For more than a half century he has served on the board of the Henrietta First Christion Church and taught a Sunday school class.
He and his wife have two daughters, Mrs.George Pierce of Henrietta, and Mrs. Carl Hoeffner of Dallas, and four grandchildren.
One grandson is figuring on studying law, and while Stine says he thinks young folks ought to decide for themselves what they are best fitted for, he admits he was "pleased when I found out he wanted to practice law."
It would cement a century of family tradition.
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Former Clay District Judge's Services Today
HENRIETTA, Tex.(Special)
Services for Vincent Stine, 81, former 97th District Judge who died Wednesday in a Wichita Falls Hospital, will be at 2 p.m. Thursday in First Christian Church in Henrietta.
The Rev. Howard Walker, pastor, will officiate. Burial will be in Hope Cemetery under direction of Paul Hawkins Funeral Home.
Memorial services will be at 10 a.m. Thursday in district courtroom of Clay County courthouse. District Judge Lewis Holland of Montague, Tes., will conduct services.
Born July 16, 1895, near Bellvue. Stine was the youngest district judge ever elected in Texas. He served on the district bench 12 years during the late 1920's and 1930's.
Stine was a member of Henrietta First Christian Church 70 years and was a Mason more than 50 years. He also was an elder and Sunday School teacher.
Stine was a member of Clay County Draft Board during World War II. Charter Director of First State Bank, former member of the school board and served as county attorney serving several years. He was President of the Clay County Pioneer Association and was former President of Tri-County Bar Association.
Stine studied law on his own before being admitted to the State Bar of Texas. He served in the 11th Engineers, 36th Division at Camp Bowie and in France during World War I. He married Alma Cooper of Bowie while serving as Judge.
Survivors inclue his wife; two daughters, Mrs. Nancy Pierce of Henrietta and Mrs. Mary Hoeffner of Dallas; a sister, Alta Stine of Henrietta and four grandchildren.
Wichita Falls Record News
Wichita Falls, Texas
Page 4
Thursday, January 6, 1977
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VINCENT STINE MADE JUDGE
Special to the News
AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 31.
Gov. Neff Wednesday appointed Vincent Stine of Henrietta Judge of the Ninety-seventh Judicial District to fill the vacancy caused by resignation of Judge Paul Donald of Bowie. Stine is District Judge-elect.
Genealogybank.com
Dallas Morning News(Dallas, Texas)
Thursday, January 1, 1925
Part 2 Page: seventeen
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Stine one of Youngest District Judges
Henrietta, Texas, Dec. 30-
Vincent Stine, judge-elect of the 97th district court, is expected to qualify January 1 and assume duties of the office. He will succeed Judge Paul Donald of Bowie, whom he defeated for reelection in spirited contest in the July and August primaries.
Judge Stine, who is not yet 30 years old it is believed, will be one of the youngest if not the youngest district judge in Texas. He is a native of Henrietta and was associated in law practive here with his father, the late Judge P.M. Stine, until the death of the latter something over a year ago. His father was district judge of this district before him a number of years ago. Judge Vincent Stine is descended from prominent jurists on both sides of the famly.
At the time of his nomination for district judge he was serving his second term as county attorney of Clay county, which office he recently resigned.
The 97th judicial district includes clay and Montague counties.
Wichita Daily Times Pg 3
30 Dec 1924
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Note: Newspaper Article By Lois Luecke Regional Staff Writer ? date and ? newspaper-article found among Aunt Myrt's pictures
LAWYER ARGUES CASES FOR SMALL TOWN
HENRIETTA, Tex.___To a young person who has a hankering to practice law in a small town, veteran attorney and former jurist Vincent Stine will say there is a future there.
"There will always be a future, I think, in a small town," he says. A small town lawyer "is not going to get rich. I would say if a fellow wanted to get rich, he ought not to practice law but get into something else. But he can make his living and a nice living in a small town and that is all I try to do."
For Stine, there is no place to live like a small town. He wouldn't for a minute swap it for city life.
"When I walk down the street, I like for people to speak to me, and when I pass cars I like for folks to wave at me and I like to wave back. I just kind of like people-and in a city, that wouldn't happen very often...You wouldn't know the people," he explains.
The profession of law, though, he cautions, "takes a whole lot of study. A lawyer never gets through studying," and if a young person doesn't like to sturdy, law shouldn't be his choice.
Stine has been in the practice for more than a half century, and he still enjoys it, he says. "Otherwise," he observes piquantly, "I would retire."
The Stine family--including through the years, his father and an uncle and a brother--has been historically a part of the system of Clay County justice.
There were Stines Practicing law here as early as the 1880's, not long after the reorganization of Clay County.
Vincent Stine's father, P.M. Stine , came to Henrietta at the age of 19 in 1873 from Moberly, Mo. In subsequent years, he studied law and was admitted to practice in Texas. The elder Stine served as county judge at a time when the district court went as far west as Hardeman County.
Two Uncles, E.S. Hurt, his mother's brother, and Vincent, his father's brother, for whom Stine was named, also practiced here the latter part of the 19th century. And his maternal grandfather, J.M. Hurt of Dallas, was a member of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals for 20 years.
When Stine was a baby, he says, his father moved with his family to Dallas but returned here to resume practice in 1904. Since 1904 there has been a Stine practicing law or serving as judge in Henrietta.
Like his father, Stine studied law on his own before being admitted to the Texas Bar. He read law at his father's office, and "sometimes carried books home.
"I would say of the lawyers I knew back in those days, very few of them had law degrees," Stine says. "Most of them studied and took the bar examination and got a law license."
Stine had earned his license before World War I but had not started in the practice, and after the war began, he went over to Camp Bowie at Fort Worth and enlisted with the 111the Engineers, 36th Division.
"I wasn't looking for a desk job," he says now, recalling those days. Stine's unit stayed busy "repairing bridges and roads. Most of the time we were behind the infantry and in front of the artillery. We were on the move. The Germans were on the retreat."
He served in France in the St. Michiel sector and in the Argonne-"that is where we were when it(the war) ended, just out in the forest, in the woo."
After his discharge in 1919, he went to work in the Northwest Field during the oil boom at Burkburnett to earn and "save a little money," and then came back to Henrietta and started practicing law.
For 12 years during the late '20s and '30s, Stine served as judge of the 97th District Court. Prior to that time, he served for several terms as county attorney.
When he left the bench, he joined the law firm of his brother, Pierre, and another attorney, Frank Bunting, and later he and his brother formed their own firm. Pierre Stine died in 1961.
While he was serving as judge, Stine met and married the former Alma Cooper of Bowie. The Stines celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary this past summer.
Stine walks six blocks from his office to his home every day for lunch and takes a long lunch hour during which time he reads the newspapers.
For relaxation he likes to read a good western story.
The veteran attorney is also a baseball and football fan, having played the sports as a youngster. He recollects that although he was "kind of runty for football at 125 pounds, we were so short of players at Henrietta High School, I played end. In those days they used little guys."
Moving with an alacritous step, Stine is a familiar figure along courthouse square. If he has a formula for continuing good health, he doesn't reveal it. "When I get old," he explains, with a grin, "then I will have a formula."
Clay Countians this year elected Stine president of the pioneers association. This year, also, he received his 50-year pin from the Henrietta Masonic Lodge.
Stine is a charter member of the American Legion Post. For more than a half century he has served on the board of the Henrietta First Christion Church and taught a Sunday school class.
He and his wife have two daughters, Mrs.George Pierce of Henrietta, and Mrs. Carl Hoeffner of Dallas, and four grandchildren.
One grandson is figuring on studying law, and while Stine says he thinks young folks ought to decide for themselves what they are best fitted for, he admits he was "pleased when I found out he wanted to practice law."
It would cement a century of family tradition.
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Former Clay District Judge's Services Today
HENRIETTA, Tex.(Special)
Services for Vincent Stine, 81, former 97th District Judge who died Wednesday in a Wichita Falls Hospital, will be at 2 p.m. Thursday in First Christian Church in Henrietta.
The Rev. Howard Walker, pastor, will officiate. Burial will be in Hope Cemetery under direction of Paul Hawkins Funeral Home.
Memorial services will be at 10 a.m. Thursday in district courtroom of Clay County courthouse. District Judge Lewis Holland of Montague, Tes., will conduct services.
Born July 16, 1895, near Bellvue. Stine was the youngest district judge ever elected in Texas. He served on the district bench 12 years during the late 1920's and 1930's.
Stine was a member of Henrietta First Christian Church 70 years and was a Mason more than 50 years. He also was an elder and Sunday School teacher.
Stine was a member of Clay County Draft Board during World War II. Charter Director of First State Bank, former member of the school board and served as county attorney serving several years. He was President of the Clay County Pioneer Association and was former President of Tri-County Bar Association.
Stine studied law on his own before being admitted to the State Bar of Texas. He served in the 11th Engineers, 36th Division at Camp Bowie and in France during World War I. He married Alma Cooper of Bowie while serving as Judge.
Survivors inclue his wife; two daughters, Mrs. Nancy Pierce of Henrietta and Mrs. Mary Hoeffner of Dallas; a sister, Alta Stine of Henrietta and four grandchildren.
Wichita Falls Record News
Wichita Falls, Texas
Page 4
Thursday, January 6, 1977
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