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CHICAGO LAWYERS

Judge Farlin Quigley Ball, who died Au-
gust 29th, was born in Shelby County, Ohio,
March 28th, 1838. As a boy he went to Wis-
consin with his parents. He was graduated
from the University of Wisconsim in 1861 and
the following year enlisted in the Thirty-fourth
Wisconsim Volunteer Infantry. For his serv-
ice he was promoted successively to the rank
of major. He studied law with J. W. Johnson,
of Madison, Wisconsin, and was admitted to
the Wisconsim Bar in November, 1865.

Judge Ball was State's Attorney of Dane
County, Wisconsin, for two terms and was attor-
ney for the town of Cicero for three years. He
came to Chicago in August, 1869, and was then
admitted to the Bar of Illinois. He was elected
Judge of the Superior Court in 1895. He served
for sixteen yers on the Superior and Appellate

[Photograph of Farlin Ball]
JUDGE FARLIN Q. BALL

Court benches and retured from the bench in
1911 after having earned from his colleagues
of the Cook County bench the title of "the
ideal jurist." At a banquet given in his honor
upon his retirement from the bench it was said
of him: "He has always been correct in his
judgement of the law, always patient and al-
was of the judicial temperament. His record
as a man, a soldier, a lawyer and a judge is
without a blemish."

While in active practice, he was a member
of the law firms of Shufeldt & Ball; Monroe,
Bisbee & Ball; and Ball, Wood & Oakley, and
was the author of "Ball on National Banks."

Judge Ball served as president of the Chicago
Law Institute and the Chicago Bar Association,
was a member of the Illinois State Bar Asso-
ciation, the Hamilton, Lincoln and Oak Park
clubs and was a Knight Templar. Judge Ball
is survived by his widow, Mrs. Elizabeth H.
Ball and two sons, Farlin H. and Sydney
H. Ball.

President Edgar B. Tolman of the Illinois
State Bar Association appointed the following
to represent that organization at the funeral
services:

Stephen S. Gregory Gilbert E. Porter
Edwin F. Bailey Perey V. Castle
John T. Richard Frederick W. Pringle

Joseph W. Moses, President of the Chicago
Barr Association, being absent from the city,
Amos C. Miller, Vice-President, appointed the
following to represent the association at the
funeral services:

Edwin M. Ashcraft N. Moore Grier
Frank A. Helmer William H. Holden
Henry R. Baldwin Howard Henderson
Sidney C. Eastman

President Frederick A. Rowe of the Hamiltton
Club, appointed the following to represent that
organization at the funeral services:
Edward A. Dicker Frederick W. Pringle
Frederick A. Rowe Wm. A. Hutchinson
Chas. S. Woodward John T. Richards
Henry R. Pebbles Fred K. Rossbach
Geo. T. Buckingham Arthur T. Cavey
Wirt E. Humphrey John T. Muir
W. N. Gemmill Archibald MacLeish
Freeman K. Blake Samuel Kerr
Edwin A. Munger Elliott Durand
Orrin N. Carter LeRoy T. Steward
Olver G. Cameron Joseph H. Barnett
John L. Davidson Albert Miller
Samuel A. Harper Lloyd K. Marshall
William H. McSurely Chas. E. Shearman
John J. Miller Rufus F. Robinson

Funeral services will be held Friday, August
31st, at 2:30 o'clock P. M., from his late resi-
dence, 207 Clinton Avenue, Oak Park. Inter-
ment will be at Forest Home Cemetary.