BESOIxUTIONS ADOPTED BY
COUNTY BAH ASSOCIATION
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At a recent meeting of the Sandus¬
ky County *Bar association, the fol¬
lowing resolutions were adopted:
John Duff was born May 27, 1863,
at Sheffield. His education, so, far
as schools could contribute to such
education, was had at Port Clinton
and he studied law in the Law School
at the University of Michigan and
was admitted to the Bar in 1888. His
education was never fully completed,
because both in law and in all the
matters that make for culture and
knowledge of every kind he was, un- s p
til the day that sickness deprived him
of his powers, an industrious and
successful seeker after learning. He
began the practice of his chosen pro¬
fession at Port Clinton, but in a
■ short time,removed to Oak Harbor,
where he continued to have his lav/
office until the sickness that termin¬
ated in his death, except during the
me that he was judge of this court,
to which position he was appointed
by Governor Cox, a Democrat, al¬
though he himself was a Republican.
He married Nannie Motley on the
16th day of October, 1884, and there
were born to" them five chlldren,whom
be reared with zealous care to fine
manhood and womanhood, and al¬
ways his home associations were
bounded by kindly happiness.
He was a man of remarkable phys¬
ical strength and it seeme4 the
strangeness of fate that he should be
suddenly stricken with a painful mal¬
ady that in a year or a little more
should take him to, his grave. He
died on the 30th day of March, 1928,
and his body was laid in its final
resting plaice at Avon, Ohio,
John Duff's parents were Scotch
and had been all trained to the seas.
He had in his blood the spirit of ro¬
mance and love of nature, which
might be expected from such an an¬
cestry, and with a persistance that
amounted sometimes to eccentricity
he sought to keep alive in his own
life and character the peculiarities of
his hardy forbears. He sailed the
lakes and seas with his father in a
boat which he himself has helped to
* build on the shores of Lake Erie out
of timber hewn from the forests that
lined its shores. The expanse of na- j
tare filled his soul and his* imagina-1
tion people it with his thoughts. I
When he settled down to the prac¬
tice of his chosen profession, he'loved;
to keep his mind active and alert in!
the study of the history of the law
as well as acquiring, knowledge of the
immediate conditions surrounding
that profession. He came, therefore,
to be a learned lawyer. But the study
of the law alone was not sufficient
for his romantic mind and he delved '
into lite" ature and became acquainted
with ih& romantic poets and writers
•of great worth, and culture.- He had
a mechanical bent of miaa: ai j. with
his? , ^ds could build and do many
lL. : iiat experts might be proud to
He loved to find the cause of
in .
s that are and from them tr
f lat follow.
; v, as mo-a i- '••nested above all
in the people with whom he
ae and with whom he came in con-
He was interested in their
a:ad loved to study their char¬
acterises and peculiarities and al¬
ways sought to further, so far as he
could, the happiness of those sur-
