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for the judiciary as a body and was never known to cavil, as 

 some do. He had not only the respect but the affection of 

 many foremost judges throughout the land, and of the many 

 members of the Bar with whom he came in contact. He 

 harbored no ill will against his adversaries and none was 

 ever heard to speak ill of him. With him graciousness and 

 strength were ever combined, and so perfectly blended that 

 neither outweighed the other. His genuine pleasure and ap- 

 preciation of the success of others was so great that every 

 success seemed to be his own. He never turned a client away 

 from his door for need of a fee, and yet he was successful 

 in accumulating a competence. He believed that, as every 

 lawyer received a license to practice from the State without 

 tax, he was bound to render to the State, through any of its 

 needy citizens, legal services regardless of compensation. 



"On many other occasions and in many ways, Mr. Ship- 

 man's virtues, his learning, in literature and languages, and 

 his public services have been extolled. At this time we speak 

 of the lawyer in the man. Throughout his professional life 

 his ideals and their daily pursuit were as high and clean and 

 clear as the day he entered the profession — a difficult life- 

 purpose in material days. He was more than all else a lawyer, 

 learned in the law, and from that sprang all his opportunities 

 and the fine deeds that he achieved for himself and others in 

 his eminent career." 



Notwithstanding the fulness of his legal career and its 

 many duties, Mr. Shipman gave his time and labor to many c, 



enterprises beyond professional limits. He was called upon ^ ^^ 

 in many ways and never failed to respond. Outside of his] J*^,^/* 

 professional life, he devoted himself chiefly to the interest! ,,;, 

 of the Slavs in the United States. This work was to him al '^ 

 constant pursuit, and one might say, a second profession. The 

 obscure assistant-manager of the W. P. Rend Coal Mines back 

 in 1884 became in later years in (New York the legal advisor, 

 counsellor, friend and promoter of the cause and welfare of 

 the Greek Catholics in New Yorkani,adjacent States^ In 

 1895 he helped to organize, boTFfHy his legal services as an 

 attorney and by his friendly and ardent assistance as a lay- 

 man, the Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church of St. George on 

 East 20th Street^ New York City, of which Rev. Joseph Chap- 



