Proceedings of the Memorial Meeting of the Bench and Bar of Baltimore City in Memory of Charles Edward Phelps, Late Judge of the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City, Maryland, January the Eleventh, Ninteen Hundred and Nine, 1909 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Proceedings of the Memorial Meeting of the Bench and Bar of Baltimore City in Memory of Charles Edward Phelps, Late Judge of the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City, Maryland, January the Eleventh, Ninteen Hundred and Nine, 1909 Participating most energetically in the political reform movement of 1859, which in 1860 resulted in a complete change in our municipal government, he was sent to the City Council from the Twelfth Ward at the same time that the late Hon. George William Brown was elected Mayor. At the breaking out of our Civil War, being drawn by conviction to the support of the Union side, he did not hesitate openly to give his adhesion to it, notwithstanding the severe struggle it cost him to separate himself from many friends in Baltimore with whom he was very closely associated, and who were strong sympathisers with the Confederate cause. He accordingly accepted a commission as lieutenant-colonel in the Seventh Regiment of Maryland Volunteers, of which he afterwards became colonel. He served in the army with great gallantry and distinction, receiving well-merited promotion for conspicuous courage, and having been seriously wounded in May, 1864, was furloughed on sick leave and returned home with the rank of brigadier-general. While thus temporarily detached from active service, he was elected to Congress from the Fourth Maryland Congressional District, succeeding Hon. Henry Winter Davis, and was re-elected for a second term in 1866. During his Congressional career he manifested that independence of judgment and action which was always a marked trait of his character. The war having come to an end in the Spring of 1865, he took sides with President Andrew Johnson after the tragic and deeply lamented death of President Lincoln, and distinguished himself in Congress by refusing to follow his party in the radical reconstruction measures of that eventful period. Returning to private life he resumed the practice of his profession, and, with the exception of a service for some years as a Commissioner of Public Schools from his ward, held no office until in the popular upraising of 1882, known as the New Judge Movement, he was elected in November of that year as a member of the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City. He was re-elected in 1897 with practical unanimity under the most gratifying evidence of confidence and esteem, and served until May, 1908, when, in consequence of impaired physical health, he was retired by the General Assembly upon full pay for the residue of his term. While upon the Bench he was chosen, in 1884, by the Faculty of Law of the University of Maryland to the chair of "Equity Jurisprudence, Pleading and Practice, " and discharged with great efficiency the duties of his professorship for twenty-three years, holding the attention of the students by his attractiveness and force of his lectures. He further signalized his professorship by the preparation of the admirable work entitled "Juridical Equity, " which is justly regarded as of distinguished merit. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.