George H. Durand

In the death of Judge George H. Durand the state has lost one of its ideal citizens and the people at a genuine friend. His death comes almost as a personal grief to all who have enjoyed his personal acquaintance. Judge Durand possessed the rare faculty of making all who came into his personal presence feel that he was their friend and interested in them. This was due not to any design on his part, but the genuine friendliness of his character and the broad, liberal spirit of the man. This accounted for the hosts of friends which he had everywhere among people who knew anything of the man. To these traits was due the fact that he many times, although never an office seeker, had office thrust upon him by his admiring fellow citizens. He was never ambitious for office of for riches, when he served in any public capacity it was because his fellow citizens demanded the sacrifice at his hands. He did not live for the purpose of paramountcy in dollars, but he had large possessions in those traits of character which attacked other men to him. He was the kind of man who always makes a community better for his having lived within it.