Orange County FlArchives Obituaries.....Werner, William E. March 1, 1916
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Winter Park Post, 9 March 1916
SAD DEATH OF JUDGE WERNER,
Was One of Rochester's MostDistinguished Men. 

Sad news of the death of Judge William E. Werner, associate judge of the Court 
of Appeals and one of Rochester's most distinguished men, came as a shock to 
his many friends in Winter Park who became warmly attached to him during his 
visit here last winter. 

Judge Werner died Wednesday, March 1st in Rochester, "after a serious illness 
that developed more than a year ago," states the Rochester Democrat and 
Chronicle- "The immediate cause was pleurisy that followed an operation to 
remove the spleen.  Back of that cause, however, was a long fight against 
pernicious anemia. A few hours before the pleurisy developed his physician 
announced that his chances for recovery were slightly better than never. The 
relapse came late Monday night, and with it a great deal of pain. One of the 
last things Judge Werner said was: "I had rather die than suffer so." 

During the last year. Judge Werner had spent little time on the bench. The 
anemic condition first developed about a year ago, and upon the advice of his 
physician he spent the latter end of the winter in Florida. He was in better 
health after his return from the South and continued to improve during the 
summer. In August he went to Canada for a month. He was not as well when he 
returned, and from that time until his death his condition was always 
fluctuating.

BEGAN LIFE A POOR BOY.

Those who knew  Judge William E. Werner only as the able jurist always found it 
difficult to believe the story of his early days, even though it is fairly 
common in the careers of successful Americans.  He ended life as associate 
judge of the Court of Appeals and with the prospect of eventually succeeding to 
the chief judgeship, which he missed so narrowly in 1913. He practically began 
life as an orphan, with no opportunities and no greater ambition than to learn 
a trade; before he studied law he was successively errand boy, molder's 
apprentice andfarm hand.

He succeeded by the usual route of hard work, plus a natural aptitude for his 
profession. And however difficult and discouraging his earlier days may have 
been, his life from young manhood on was a steady march forward. He was a 
special county judge of Monroe County at the age of 20, years, county judge at 
34, justice of the Supreme Court at 40,-and associate judge of the Court of 
Appeals just five years later. An excellent speaker, he was a well liked man 
from the start of his career. When he ran for special county judge he received 
more than 21,000 of 22,000 votes cast.


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