Judge Park and Cate

Waupaca Republican

November 22, 1907

PORTRAITS OF FORMER JUDGES

Portraits of the late Judge Gilbert L. Park and Judge George W. Cate were hung in the courthouse today, one on either side of the desk of Chas. M. Webb, the presiding judge: The pictures were made by Lyman of Oshkosh and are excellent likenesses.

Judge Cate took his seat on the bench of this judicial circuit on June 4, 1854, and held the office continuously until March 4, 1875, almost 21 years. He then retired to take a seat in congress. He was succeeded on the bench by Gilbert L. Park, who held the office until 1883, when failing health would not permit of further official labor. The lives of both of these men should be an incentive to the young men of today. Many of those now living who knew them in their lifetime remember them only as they now see them on the bench or in the practice of their profession. But both were self-made men; both came to the Wisconsin River pinery in an early day; both worked in the logging woods or in saw mills; later both stood in the front rank of their profession; both were able jurists; both were for many years among the leading citizens in the community in which so many years of their lives were spent; and the announcement that their portraits have been hung in the courtroom will be highly gratifying to the old friends who so kindly remember both. – Stevens Point Journal.

We hope to see the portraits of these late venerable judges placed in our own courthouse as this city was also in their circuit.