Lucius Hart Beers

Lucius Hart Beers. [Born] 1859. Lawyer.

A Centurion for fifty-one years—the longest membership on our memorial roll tonight: elected in the same year as architect John M. Carrère, author Hamilton W. Mabie, actor Joseph Jefferson, engineer William Barclay Parsons, historian James Harvey Robinson, musician Frank Damrosch, artist Edwin A. Abbey, and our own present Edward Ringwood Hewitt.

Lucius Beers and Henry de Forest Baldwin, his junior at the Bar and in age, were law partners for fifty years and not an unpleasant word was ever passed between them on any subject. I can hear Mr. Baldwin tell me that now, as 1 think of him sitting in his red-upholstered chair and see the light of friendship come into his eyes.

They were out-of-doors men, these two; and perhaps that is why they were so wise: Mr. Baldwin was a sailor—Mr. Beers a speed-boat driver, a fisherman and a duck hunter. At eighty-eight he still got his full bag of ducks with his old ten-gauge gun. He was energetic and youthful in mind and point of view almost until the end.

And like the good lawyer he was, in the best American legal tradition, he accumulated duties for the public good as chairman of the Board of Trustees of Barnard College, as Trustee of the American Farm School at Salonika, Greece, as a member of the Anti-Submarine Board during the first World War, and in the organizations of his profession and in his church.

Source: Henry Allen Moe Papers, Mss.B.M722. Reproduced by permission of American Philosophical Society Library & Museum, Philadelphia

Henry Allen Moe
Henry Allen Moe Papers, 1948 Memorials