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IN MEMORIAL. 



HENRY CARROLL STEARICS. 



Henry Carroll Stearus, L. L. B., was born May 11, 1851, in 

 AValpole, N'ew Hampshire. Died Aug. 15, 1884, in Lakeland, 

 "Washington County, Minnesota. 



The subject of this memoir Avas the only remaining child of 

 Josiah W. and Abbie Martin Stearns, recently of Watseka, 

 Illinois, but originally of AValpole, New Hampshire. The fam- 

 ily name is old and honored in the town of Walpole, dating back 

 in its ancestry to 1630, when Isaac Stearns landed at Boston as 

 one of the iDassengers of the ship Arabella, from England. 



Henry C, was a lawyer of much promise in the county of 

 Iroquois, State of Illinois, where he practiced his profession for 

 about six years previous to his coming to this State, being a 

 graduate of the Union College of Law in Chicago, 1876, and ad- 

 mitted to the bar of the Suj)reme Court of Illinois, the same 

 year. He established a practice in the city of Watseka, the 

 county seat of Iroquois County, where he was highly esteemed 

 by the bench and bar, and by the community generally, until the 

 season of 1882, when his condition of failing health induced him 

 to seek a climate with a dryer atmosphere and having a dryer soil. 

 The State of Minnesota seemed to fill the requirements, and his 

 purpose was to establish himself at Minneapolis; but being too 

 ill to engage in business, he was induced to accompany his de- 

 voted parents to the bluffs near Lakeland, where it was hojjed 

 the healthful occupation of farming and gardening, under favor- 

 able circumstances, would soon result in the restoration of his 

 health. 



These hopes, however, proved delusive, as the flatteries of 

 consumption usually do, and after a few months of heroic strug- 

 gle with this old and most formidable foe, in which he exhibited 

 the highest qualities of X3atience, fortitude and courage, his 

 attenuated form and panting breath yielded to the inevitable, 

 and the ambitious young lawyer, the affectionate son of doting 

 parents, sleeps in death. 



Mr. Stearns possessed, in an eminent degree, those admirable 

 qualities and habits which give assurance of success in an hon- 

 orable career. Numerous certificates from iDrofessional brethren 

 and others with whom he was associated speak in generous and 



