Obituaries (March 4)

Eugene Clinton

Utica Saturday Globe, June 15, 1918

 

 

Eugene Clinton

 

.The death of Attorney Eugene Clinton, a leading member of the Chenango county bar, deeply pained his many friends in this section.  Mr. Clinton suffered a shock about five weeks ago which left him partially helpless.  Deceased was a son of Ormond D. and Almira Payne Clinton, and was born in the town fo Willet, Cortland county, January 13, 1855.  He was educated in the district schools of Clintonville, Otsego county, German and McDonough and in Bainbridge Academy.  After completing his schooling he read law with George Windsor of Bainbridge, and later with Isaac D. Newton of Norwich.  He was admitted to the bar May 4, 1880 in Ithaca and was admitted to practice in the United States Supreme Court December 5, 1888.  He first located in Smithville where he remained until 1883, when he moved to Greene and later came to the county seat [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY].  He was a wide-awake and successful practitioner, combining with natural shrewdness an ability to concentrate while his accurate knowledge of legal principles and varied practice gave him an infinite acquaintance with the working details of his profession, making him a formidable antagonist, especially in cases where great interests were involved.  He was never a pettifogger, but appeared only in cases of a nature worthy of his best efforts.

 

Mr. Clinton was of the eighth generation in direct line of Edward Doty, a London youth, who came over in the good ship Mayflower and was one of the signers of the solemn compact made in Cape Cod harbor in November, 1620 and was also in the party with Miles Standish and William Bradford who first went ashore to find a suitable place to land the Pilgrims and selected Plymouth Rock.  January 18, 1881 Mr Clinton married Bertha L. Johnson, of Greene who survives him.  He was a member of Harmony Chapter, R.A.M. and vice president of the Masonic Club.  With his other attainments he was a composer of considerable merit, having written a patriotic song which became popular and was sung for the first time at the Colonia Theater in this city.

 

The Chenango County Bar Association met in special session at the Court House Wednesday morning and adopted eulogistic resolutions.  Several brief addresses appreciative of the life and career of the deceased were made by members of the association who then formed in line and marched to the Clinton residence on Hayes street [Norwich, NY] where simple funeral services were conducted by Rev. H.R. MacMillan, pastor of the First Baptist Church of which Mr. Clinton was a member.  The body was taken on the 12:33 train, accompanied by relatives and friends and with knight Templars escort to Greene where burial was made.

 

Anna M. Juliand

Chenango American, Greene, NY, September 20, 1855

 

In this village on the 22d ult., Miss Anna M. daughter of Col J. Juliand, aged 20 years.

 

In the circumstances attending this sad bereavement, there is much to sooth the sorrows of those who have been smitten.  Dreaded as the Consumption usually is, from its deceptive character, and from the certainty where it is deeply seated of a fatal issue, there is yet the redeeming feature in connection with it that it does not, like many other diseases--burying its victims to the grave without time for looking the great facts of another world full in the face.  Though debility and weakness and the exhausting cough cause the heart at times to sink, yet there are large opportunities for calm meditation, devout exercises and patient obedience to the Divine will.  And when these facilities are embraced as in the case of the young friend who has left us they were, the sick room becomes a consecrated spot, a bethel of the soul, where pious hopes gather great strength, and holy thoughts and affections reach their fullest development and scope.  And when the heart has become weaned from the work, when the Christian sees that it is God's purpose to cut the ties of life, and prepares calmly yet earnestly for the great change, there is then a grandeur and dignity encircling the sick room and the couch of wasting and death.

 

The great Dr. Young in his brilliant Poem, the Night Thoughts has called "the deathbed the detector of the heart."  If this be so there are the memories that cluster around the closing life of the young Disciple of Christ, replete with all that is grateful and soothing.  The sting is extracted from death when that last enemy is met as He was by her whose decease we are now noticing.  In her experience the Christian graces show out the more brightly--as flesh wasted--as exhaustion increased--as death grew near.  Though she was of nervous constitution of body the hour of dissolution was shorn of its terrors.  While others wept she was tranquil.  No distraction of thoughts, no filmy discernment, no unworthy fears, distressed her mind. She had thrown her soul upon the bleeding cross of a pardoning Saviour and she felt safe though with no undue confidence in ought that she could do in the task of Salvation.  Calmly and in frequent prayer and in the use of all prescribed ordinances she awaited the final hour.  It came and found her watching.

 

Sweetly she bade adieus to the loved that pressed around her.  With unbroken voice she spoke the farewell words.  It was a hallowed scene such as Heaven gazes at with joy.  It seemed as though the world of spirits was very near us then, as though the spiritualized imagination could catch the rustling of angel wings as they waited to bear the parting spirit to the bosom of celestial peace.  She has gone. The family circle is broken.  The heart of youthful friendship is sad. The tear starts to the eye of loved companions as her name is breathed.  But her record is on high and her rest is sweet.  Soon many of those among us who knew and loved her in life,

Shall meet her on that peaceful shore,

Where parting words are heard no more."

 

Lucretia C. Juliand

 

Died last evening, February 19th, Mrs. Lucretia C. Juliand, at the advanced age of eight-nine.  Pneumonia severed the cord of her life and removed one of the oldest, most refined and charming ladies of Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY], one whose life had always been a charm in her home and a bright factor in society, and a Christian. She was born in Guilford, Conn., June 4th, 1805, and became the wife of Col. Richard W. Juliand in 1822.  Ever since, her home has been in Bainbridge at her late residence, which is a beautiful and historic landmark.  Always identified with the society and church work in the village, she spread an influence, valuable in the same degree that her death is mourned.  Colonel Juliand died fifteen years ago.  In her old age Mrs. Juliand was comforted and cared for by a son, Joseph Juliand, of Bainbridge, and a daughter, Mrs. James Banks, of Chicago, who survive her in sadness over the departure of a loving mother.  The funeral is held on Friday at 2:30 p.m. with services in St. Peter's church and burial in the cemetery of the church--Bainbridge Republican.  [Chenango Union,  February 28, 1895]

 

In Memoriam

Entered unto rest, quietly and peacefully, the evening of Feb. 19, 1895, Mr. Lucretia C. Juliand in her 90th year.  She was one of the oldest, most refined and charming ladies of Bainbridge; one whose life had always been a charm in her home and a bright factor in society, and a Christian.  She was born in Guilford, Conn., June 4, 1805 and became the wife of Col. Richard W. Juliand in 1822.  Her home had since been in Bainbridge at her late residence, which is a beautiful and historic landmark.  Becoming identified from the first with society and the Episcopal church, under the shadows of whose walls she now rests, her influence became valuable in the same degree that her death is mourned. Col. Juliand preceded her to the better land fourteen years ago.  Mrs. Juliand retained her faculties to the last, bright and ever cheerful. She was comforted and cared for by a son, Joseph Juliand of Bainbridge, and a daughter, Mrs. James M. Banks of Chicago, who survive her in sadness, over the departure of a loving mother.  The funeral of Mrs. Lucretia C. Juliand was held on Friday last.  In the absence of the Rector, the services were most impressively conducted by the Rev. Albert Bentley of Windsor.  Mrs. Dr. Copley presided at the organ, assisted by the full vested church choir, the church vestry acting as pall bearers.  The bearers were Jas. K. Wetmore, C.M. Priest, Don A. Gilbert, C.C. Hovey, Dwight C. Schott and I.H. Willsey.  Among those present were Mrs. James M. Banks and Miss Mary Banks, Chicago; Miss Emma E. Juliand, Washington; Maurice Birdsall, Binghamton; J.E. Juliand, J.B. Juliand, J.R.Juliand, H.M. Juliand, Miss Cornie Juliand and Mrs. Minnie Arnold, Greene; Mrs. Gilbert Sherwood, Walton; Mrs. C. Hayes, Miss Mary Hayes and H.C. Gregory, Unadilla; Mr. and Mrs. John C. Chamberlain, Afton--Bainbridge Express.[Chenango American, Greene, NY, March 7, 1895]

 

George Juliand

Chenango Union, July 8, 1897

 

George Juliand, one of our oldest and most respected citizens, passed from this to a higher life on Monday afternoon, June 24, at 4 o'clock.  Mr. Juliand was one of the band of what is termed "the older Juliand brothers,"--Lewis, George, Richard, Joseph and Frederick, sons of Capt. Joseph Juliand, who was one of the French pioneers that located in this town [Greene, Chenango Co., NY] when it was an unbroken wilderness.  In the early days Joseph, Lewis, George and Frederick were partners in business, but in 1840 the firm dissolved, and the subject of these lines took up his abode upon his farm a short distance west of this village, and resided there until summoned to the world beyond.  During all these years, or up to the time when old age and infirmities compelled him to abandon business, he had been one of the most active and honorable business men in this section of the State.  He dealt largely in cattle, and his transactions brought him in close business relations with hundreds of farmers.  Never in his long business career has he been criticized, his business having been conducted on the highest plane of honor, and now at the advanced age of 94, he has gone, honored and beloved by all.  Mr. Juliand was a benevolent man, and there are many in this community who can vouch for his acts of charity in times of distress.  Mr. Juliand was a consistent churchman, and for many years was connected with the vestry of Zion Church.  One of our prominent landmarks has fallen. A man who had done much for the development of this town has gone from among us, but the good deeds that he has enacted, and the honorable record he has left behind, will long live to bless his name and heritage.--Green American.