The Manassas Journal
Manassas, Prince William County, Virginia October 22, 1915 (page 8, column 3)
DEATH OF J. NOTA McGILL
Prominent Attorney of Washington Succumbs Saturday at Asheville, N.C.
The death of J. Nota McGill, of Washington, in Asheville, N. C., on Saturday last was the occasion of profound sorrow to hosts of friends, especially to the residents of Prince William county, among whom his mother's family has resided for the past five years.
The old adage -- "Death loves a shining mark" -- may well be used in reference to the untimely ending of this young man whose life was replete with the "good deeds that live after," whose gracious and kindly bearing won for him friends in every walk of life and whose mental attainments early acquired the success he obtained in the practice of his profession.
Graduating from the Georgetown School of Law when only nineteen years of age, he was admitted to the bar on his twenty-first birthday. With patent law as his specialty, Mr. McGill rose rapidly to the foremost ranks of his profession.
He was made Register of Wills for the District of Columbia when only twenty-seven years of age -- the youngest man in the United States ever appointed to that office.
At the time of his death, he was vice-president of the Patent Law Branch of the American Bar Association, vice-president of the Union Trust Company of Washington, president of the Colored Girls' Industrial School (a post held by him through four administrations), and prominently identified with several other civic and charitable organizations.
He held the chair of professor of patent law in the Georgetown School of Law. As evidence of the esteem entertained for him by the District Bar Association, all the courts of the District were closed on Monday last, and a committee appointed from the District Bar Association to attend the funeral which took place from St. Matthew's church on Tuesday.
Mr. McGill was a member of the Metropolitan, the Cosmos and the Chevy Chase clubs of Washington, and prominently identified with the Reform Club of New York.
He was married in September, 1897, at Larchmont Manor, N. Y., to Frances Maloy, of Morris Plains, N. J. He is survived by his wife and two young daughters, Miriam and Allen. His mother and two sisters, Inno and Lorette, reside near Haymarket, Va., and his only brother, Grafton L.
McGill, is a resident of new York City and is engaged in the practice of patent law.
Profound sympathy is entertained for them in their bereavement.
-- transcribed by Morgan Breeden, RELIC Volunteer, Bull Run Regional Library, Manassas, VA
NOTE: This and other old Manassas newspapers can be found here: https://eservice.pwcgov.org/library/digitallibrary/
Manassas, Prince William County, Virginia October 22, 1915 (page 8, column 3)
DEATH OF J. NOTA McGILL
Prominent Attorney of Washington Succumbs Saturday at Asheville, N.C.
The death of J. Nota McGill, of Washington, in Asheville, N. C., on Saturday last was the occasion of profound sorrow to hosts of friends, especially to the residents of Prince William county, among whom his mother's family has resided for the past five years.
The old adage -- "Death loves a shining mark" -- may well be used in reference to the untimely ending of this young man whose life was replete with the "good deeds that live after," whose gracious and kindly bearing won for him friends in every walk of life and whose mental attainments early acquired the success he obtained in the practice of his profession.
Graduating from the Georgetown School of Law when only nineteen years of age, he was admitted to the bar on his twenty-first birthday. With patent law as his specialty, Mr. McGill rose rapidly to the foremost ranks of his profession.
He was made Register of Wills for the District of Columbia when only twenty-seven years of age -- the youngest man in the United States ever appointed to that office.
At the time of his death, he was vice-president of the Patent Law Branch of the American Bar Association, vice-president of the Union Trust Company of Washington, president of the Colored Girls' Industrial School (a post held by him through four administrations), and prominently identified with several other civic and charitable organizations.
He held the chair of professor of patent law in the Georgetown School of Law. As evidence of the esteem entertained for him by the District Bar Association, all the courts of the District were closed on Monday last, and a committee appointed from the District Bar Association to attend the funeral which took place from St. Matthew's church on Tuesday.
Mr. McGill was a member of the Metropolitan, the Cosmos and the Chevy Chase clubs of Washington, and prominently identified with the Reform Club of New York.
He was married in September, 1897, at Larchmont Manor, N. Y., to Frances Maloy, of Morris Plains, N. J. He is survived by his wife and two young daughters, Miriam and Allen. His mother and two sisters, Inno and Lorette, reside near Haymarket, Va., and his only brother, Grafton L.
McGill, is a resident of new York City and is engaged in the practice of patent law.
Profound sympathy is entertained for them in their bereavement.
-- transcribed by Morgan Breeden, RELIC Volunteer, Bull Run Regional Library, Manassas, VA
NOTE: This and other old Manassas newspapers can be found here: https://eservice.pwcgov.org/library/digitallibrary/
The Manassas Journal
Manassas, Prince William County, Virginia October 22, 1915 (page 8, column 3)
DEATH OF J. NOTA McGILL
Prominent Attorney of Washington Succumbs Saturday at Asheville, N.C.
The death of J. Nota McGill, of Washington, in Asheville, N. C., on Saturday last was the occasion of profound sorrow to hosts of friends, especially to the residents of Prince William county, among whom his mother's family has resided for the past five years.
The old adage -- "Death loves a shining mark" -- may well be used in reference to the untimely ending of this young man whose life was replete with the "good deeds that live after," whose gracious and kindly bearing won for him friends in every walk of life and whose mental attainments early acquired the success he obtained in the practice of his profession.
Graduating from the Georgetown School of Law when only nineteen years of age, he was admitted to the bar on his twenty-first birthday. With patent law as his specialty, Mr. McGill rose rapidly to the foremost ranks of his profession.
He was made Register of Wills for the District of Columbia when only twenty-seven years of age -- the youngest man in the United States ever appointed to that office.
At the time of his death, he was vice-president of the Patent Law Branch of the American Bar Association, vice-president of the Union Trust Company of Washington, president of the Colored Girls' Industrial School (a post held by him through four administrations), and prominently identified with several other civic and charitable organizations.
He held the chair of professor of patent law in the Georgetown School of Law. As evidence of the esteem entertained for him by the District Bar Association, all the courts of the District were closed on Monday last, and a committee appointed from the District Bar Association to attend the funeral which took place from St. Matthew's church on Tuesday.
Mr. McGill was a member of the Metropolitan, the Cosmos and the Chevy Chase clubs of Washington, and prominently identified with the Reform Club of New York.
He was married in September, 1897, at Larchmont Manor, N. Y., to Frances Maloy, of Morris Plains, N. J. He is survived by his wife and two young daughters, Miriam and Allen. His mother and two sisters, Inno and Lorette, reside near Haymarket, Va., and his only brother, Grafton L.
McGill, is a resident of new York City and is engaged in the practice of patent law.
Profound sympathy is entertained for them in their bereavement.
-- transcribed by Morgan Breeden, RELIC Volunteer, Bull Run Regional Library, Manassas, VA
NOTE: This and other old Manassas newspapers can be found here: https://eservice.pwcgov.org/library/digitallibrary/
Manassas, Prince William County, Virginia October 22, 1915 (page 8, column 3)
DEATH OF J. NOTA McGILL
Prominent Attorney of Washington Succumbs Saturday at Asheville, N.C.
The death of J. Nota McGill, of Washington, in Asheville, N. C., on Saturday last was the occasion of profound sorrow to hosts of friends, especially to the residents of Prince William county, among whom his mother's family has resided for the past five years.
The old adage -- "Death loves a shining mark" -- may well be used in reference to the untimely ending of this young man whose life was replete with the "good deeds that live after," whose gracious and kindly bearing won for him friends in every walk of life and whose mental attainments early acquired the success he obtained in the practice of his profession.
Graduating from the Georgetown School of Law when only nineteen years of age, he was admitted to the bar on his twenty-first birthday. With patent law as his specialty, Mr. McGill rose rapidly to the foremost ranks of his profession.
He was made Register of Wills for the District of Columbia when only twenty-seven years of age -- the youngest man in the United States ever appointed to that office.
At the time of his death, he was vice-president of the Patent Law Branch of the American Bar Association, vice-president of the Union Trust Company of Washington, president of the Colored Girls' Industrial School (a post held by him through four administrations), and prominently identified with several other civic and charitable organizations.
He held the chair of professor of patent law in the Georgetown School of Law. As evidence of the esteem entertained for him by the District Bar Association, all the courts of the District were closed on Monday last, and a committee appointed from the District Bar Association to attend the funeral which took place from St. Matthew's church on Tuesday.
Mr. McGill was a member of the Metropolitan, the Cosmos and the Chevy Chase clubs of Washington, and prominently identified with the Reform Club of New York.
He was married in September, 1897, at Larchmont Manor, N. Y., to Frances Maloy, of Morris Plains, N. J. He is survived by his wife and two young daughters, Miriam and Allen. His mother and two sisters, Inno and Lorette, reside near Haymarket, Va., and his only brother, Grafton L.
McGill, is a resident of new York City and is engaged in the practice of patent law.
Profound sympathy is entertained for them in their bereavement.
-- transcribed by Morgan Breeden, RELIC Volunteer, Bull Run Regional Library, Manassas, VA
NOTE: This and other old Manassas newspapers can be found here: https://eservice.pwcgov.org/library/digitallibrary/
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