Lawyer/Judge
Centurion, 1889–1933
Born 19 April 1851 in New York (Manhattan), New York
Died 24 August 1933 in New York (Manhattan), New York
Buried Green-Wood Cemetery
, Brooklyn, New York
Proposed by Charles Carroll Lee and Edmund R. Robinson
Elected 2 November 1889 at age thirty-eight
Proposer of:
Seconder of:
Century Memorial
The life of Henry Galbraith Ward was another of the many happy illustrations of the continuity of service by our eminent jurists on the American bench. Appointed by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1907, he served eighteen years in the Federal Circuit Court of the Southern New York district, where he won recognition both for the soundness of his judgments and for his personal kindliness and tolerance. After his retirement from the Appellate bench, he frequently sat in the District Court and tried Admiralty cases. Judge Ward was master in that branch of the law and, by the testimony of Admiralty practitioners, it was a delight to appear before him. Both at the bar and on the bench he was impatient of anything legalistic; in private life his flavor as a host, his wit and humor, his quickness of appreciation, his sympathy and generosity, will long be remembered by his fellow-clubmen.
Alexander Dana Noyes
1934 Century Association Yearbook
