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AN, ELLSWORTH, ME., {THURSDAY. SEPT]THK I.ATK CiKORr.K F. DI TTOS.(ii'OucK piii lii* ihtton.I«• 11!• of Olio of Kl'swnrih’.t Most K f mm il Ci.'/on.H.Ceo gc I’hi-ip Dutton, o le of El's-\vo*t h m most l»'nlil;. -esteemed,p ommenl oml ii«••?uI e'tizoos, died nt his ho.ne on M i'ri street Hi 7.30 last Tuesday evening, at tlie age of lift j-four yea-s, three munt hs and ten days.Alt bough it has been generally known for t lie ,iPNt year that Judge Dutton lias not been in good he iltti, and although for the pml two months he has been confined to Ii'h house suffering from a disease tliat was hound to terminate fatally, nevertheless the news of h's death Ml like a pall over the city, and nothmg hut e.vpres-, 1 sions of genuine aorrow at the sail event , have been heard on every hand.The funeral wi»l take place at his late residence on Friday. Sept. 11. at 11 o’clock ' a. m.Bo-n on the spot on which he died, his J round half century lt;f life Iirh been close-■ ly identified with his native town, whose* , every interest was his da'ly concern, lie I was a man of ma-ked individuality, ofl tdmple but refined tastes, and beneath a ’ j nomelimcB gruff exterior he earred a ’ ! great b g heart. No honest applicant for \ j aid or advice ever went away from h*m misaligned. His sense of justice was of the keenest sort. As an advocate, a prosecuting officer and judgeh is d‘s-' position was to do right, and, accord-, log to liis lights, he always did it. Ilia• death in a public calamity and his loss will he severely fek.SKETCH OF HIS I-IKE.(ieorge Philip Dutton was born in Ells-, worth on May '28, 1842. He was the . youngest son of the late Deacon Samuel and Elizabeth (Leach) Dutton—being the only child by his father’s second marriage.Deacon Dutton’s first wife waa Nancy ' Jordan, and their children were Nancy, Samuel, jr., H. Augustus, Edward, William, Frank A. and Eliza. Nancy died in 1 childhood, but all the rest lived to man-, hood, and most of them »/ill be remembered by the older citizens of Ellsworth.The only survivor is Eliza, widow of the late Thomas Dudley Jones, now a resident of Orange, N. J.Mr. Dutton attended school in Ellsworth, fitted for college at Phillips Andover academy, arid wen! to Yale, gradu-ai'ng in ’65. He studied law at the Harvard law school, and for his graduation thesht wrote a paper on “Admiralty Jurisdiction w hich received a prize and was published in the American Law Review. He also studied law in Portland, and for a short time had an office in Bangor, returning to Ellsworth in 18fK); war-admitted to the Hancock county bar, and immediately began tlie foundation of what became a very successful practice.In the fall of 1S73 he was elected county attorney to succeed ChaHes A. Spofford of ( Deckle. Associated with Judge Erncy as attorney-general, he conducted the prosecution of one of the most famous | murder trials ever held in tins county the Smith case. He continued as county | attorney until January 1, 1880, when he was succeeded by (ieorge M. Warren, of Cast ine.In the spring of 1885 he was appointed judge of the Ellsworth municipal court, and held the position with ability and dignity until his death. He for many years whs one of the United States commissioners for the district of Maine.In the spring of 1895, an effort was made in Ellsworth to eliminate partisan politics from local affairs, and on a platform acceptable to both parties, he. being in enlire sympathy with the movement, accepted the iiomination for mayor and was elected. His inaugural address was a paper of striking brilliancy. The policy outlined in that paper was highly commended by the public, but lie was not permitted to carry out the plans proposed. In the spring of 1S96 he was renominated, hut failed of an election, the vote for mayor being a tie. He declined to run at the special election that followed.Judge Dutton was a man of deep religious conviction. Early in life he became a member of the Congregational church, and for many years had been a deacon of the church ill Ellsworth, succeeding his venerable father, who for to many years officiated in the same church in the same capacity.Judge Dutton married in July, 1878, Miss Annie Briggs Craig, of Augusta. They had one child, Louise, now eleven years of nge. The bereaved widow and the fatherless child have the warmest sympathy of the entire community in this hour of overwhelming borrow.
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Thu, Sep 10, 1896
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