DOYLE
JOHN DOYLE
Resolution, February 19th, 1935.
To Members of Collin County Bar Association:
JOHN DOYLE, for forty years an active member of this Bar, was born Feb. 1, 1865 near Bowling Green, Ky. At the age of 17 he came to Texas and Collin County; worked as a farm hand; studied at night; attended schools and normals, and taught several rural schools in Collin County. He studied law in the law office of the late Judge John Church.
Book M pp. 110-111, Civil Minutes of the District Court of Collin County, shows that he took the Bar examination before a Committee appointed by our District Court, and was duly licensed to practice law on April 16, 1895.
He immediately realized that “The law is a jealous mistress” and requires all of a man’s time; so he devoted himself exclusively to the study and practice of law, and gave to it the best that was in him. He was for a number of years City Attorney of McKinney, and for four years Assistant County Attorney of Collin County. In private practice he was connected with the following firms: Muse & Doyle; Church & Doyle; Brown & Doyle, and for quite a number of years practiced alone.
He was a man of pleasing personality, rugged honesty, great natural ability, and strong will power and determination. In the face of disadvantages and difficulties, he arose from the comparatively humble and obscure position of farm land to a position of prominence as one of the leading legal lights at this Bar, and for a number of years has been recognized by his fellows as a lawyer of ability and power.
And whereas the All-wise Ruler of the Universe suddenly called John Doyle from his labors in our midst, to a more exalted position, now therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED that we, the Members of the Bar of McKinney and Collin County, deem it a privilege as well as a duty to voice our appreciation of him, pre-eminently as a lawyer because that was his life work; but also as a man of his word, a man of honor, a good citizen, a loving husband and father.
That we extend our sincere condolence to the bereaved widow and children; now burdened under the sense o their great loss; but really in a larger and truer sense, his life has been a gain to them and to this whole community. It is finished. He has run his course of three score and ten; and the structure that he has builded, his life-work, is such that his family and his friends may view it with pride and satisfaction.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of these resolutions be spread upon the minutes of the District and County courts of Collin County; a copy be furnished to the press, and a copy to his family.
McKinney, Texas. February 21st, 1935
James M. Muse W. C. Dowdy
Dwight Whitwell T. B. Dinco[?] H. L. Davis
Committee.
Resolution, February 19th, 1935.
To Members of Collin County Bar Association:
JOHN DOYLE, for forty years an active member of this Bar, was born Feb. 1, 1865 near Bowling Green, Ky. At the age of 17 he came to Texas and Collin County; worked as a farm hand; studied at night; attended schools and normals, and taught several rural schools in Collin County. He studied law in the law office of the late Judge John Church.
Book M pp. 110-111, Civil Minutes of the District Court of Collin County, shows that he took the Bar examination before a Committee appointed by our District Court, and was duly licensed to practice law on April 16, 1895.
He immediately realized that “The law is a jealous mistress” and requires all of a man’s time; so he devoted himself exclusively to the study and practice of law, and gave to it the best that was in him. He was for a number of years City Attorney of McKinney, and for four years Assistant County Attorney of Collin County. In private practice he was connected with the following firms: Muse & Doyle; Church & Doyle; Brown & Doyle, and for quite a number of years practiced alone.
He was a man of pleasing personality, rugged honesty, great natural ability, and strong will power and determination. In the face of disadvantages and difficulties, he arose from the comparatively humble and obscure position of farm land to a position of prominence as one of the leading legal lights at this Bar, and for a number of years has been recognized by his fellows as a lawyer of ability and power.
And whereas the All-wise Ruler of the Universe suddenly called John Doyle from his labors in our midst, to a more exalted position, now therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED that we, the Members of the Bar of McKinney and Collin County, deem it a privilege as well as a duty to voice our appreciation of him, pre-eminently as a lawyer because that was his life work; but also as a man of his word, a man of honor, a good citizen, a loving husband and father.
That we extend our sincere condolence to the bereaved widow and children; now burdened under the sense o their great loss; but really in a larger and truer sense, his life has been a gain to them and to this whole community. It is finished. He has run his course of three score and ten; and the structure that he has builded, his life-work, is such that his family and his friends may view it with pride and satisfaction.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of these resolutions be spread upon the minutes of the District and County courts of Collin County; a copy be furnished to the press, and a copy to his family.
McKinney, Texas. February 21st, 1935
James M. Muse W. C. Dowdy
Dwight Whitwell T. B. Dinco[?] H. L. Davis
Committee.
