Memoirs of the judiciary and the bar of New England for the nineteenth century : with a history of the judicial system of New England . the New England Screw company. Mr. Stinessdied in 1878. His wife, the mother of JudgeStiness, was Ahiry Maish, daughter of Johnand Lucy (Blake) Marsh, of Sutton, , and a sister of George W. Marsh, aformer grand master of the (irand Lodge, A. M., of Rhode Island. John H. Stiness recei\ed his elementarv BIOGRAFH/CAL. —RHODE ISLAND. education in the Providence pulilic sdioolsand at tlic Iniversity (irainniai scliool. lieentered ilrnwii inii\er
Memoirs of the judiciary and the bar of New England for the nineteenth century : with a history of the judicial system of New England . the New England Screw company. Mr. Stinessdied in 1878. His wife, the mother of JudgeStiness, was Ahiry Maish, daughter of Johnand Lucy (Blake) Marsh, of Sutton, , and a sister of George W. Marsh, aformer grand master of the (irand Lodge, A. M., of Rhode Island. John H. Stiness recei\ed his elementarv BIOGRAFH/CAL. —RHODE ISLAND. education in the Providence pulilic sdioolsand at tlic Iniversity (irainniai scliool. lieentered ilrnwii inii\ersity with the (•hi,«s of18G1, luit at tlio chise of his 8ii|iiioinnre year heassumed tiie superx-ision of tlie JIo[)kins (irain-niar scliool at Nortli Providence (now tiieliranch Avenue (irainuiar scdiool), where lieremained two years. Tlie outhicak of theCivil war interruj)te<l his educational caieer,as he was commissioned a second lieutenantin the second ix\uinient, New York artillery,with \vhi(di he served fifteen months, actingas adjutant and occasionally as juili;e advocate,lie was not graduated tVom (he uni\ei-sity,. JOHN H. SlINESS hut the degree of A. M. was coiderred uponhim in (), and that of LL. D. in After his retirement from (he army hestudied law in the office of Thurston iiijiley i^Co., and was admitted to the lihode Island haron March 31, ISii.), and in .Jaiuiary, , wasadmitted to practice in the Lnited StatesSu[ireme Court. He served as re[iresentativein the general assemhly from Providence in1874-7;), and on April 1:1, 1875, was elected ajustice of the Supreme Court, and chief justiceMay ..0, 1901). ()n the hencli, as in every other capacity in wliicli he has .served tliepul)lic, .Judge Stinesshas pioved his intelligence and integrity as aman, and his ahilit\ and fitness for the exaltedposition he occupies. His fellows in the i)ro-fession entertain for him the highest respectand have full confidence in his legal mindand judicial fairne
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