As he enters his nineteenth year as Town Moderator, the Norwood Free Press presents Judge Janies A. Halloran, lawyer, traveler, and scholarly gentleman . . .
Since his graduation from Harvard Law School in 1897 when he took the degree of L. L.B, Cum Laude the judge has been a leading figure in Massachusetts legal circles . . .
He was admitted to the bar before graduation from law school . . .
Has been a special district justice of Norfolk County since 1915 . . .
President of the Bar Association of Norfolk County . . .
One of the original organizers in 1910 of the Association of City Solicitors and Town Counsellors of Massachusetts, and a past president of this association . . .
For 12 years secretary-treasurer of the district judges’ association, and is still a member . . .
Director of the Norwood Trust Co. and the old Norwood National Bank, and has been vice president since 1918 . . .
Past president of the Norwood Board of Trade . . .
Town counsel since 1909, 28 years . . .
National councillor representing Massachusetts Chamber of Commerce of the United States . . .
The judge, very lovable character, likes to reminisce of his own days in journalism, when he was a member of the Coon Club, a press club in Concord, New Hampshire . . .
The judge likes a good cigar, and having sworn off during Lent was making up for lost time when we interviewed him . . .
The judge’s only hobbies are reading, and traveling . . .
He likes historical novels and general culture literature . . .
Next to Norwood, his favorite town is Milan, Italy and he paints glowing words of the beauty of this city . . .
Perhaps the greatest pride and joy of the judge’s life is the fact that he was able to do, as he describes it, his “little bit” to give Norwood its beautiful Municipal Building . . .
The busiest men are the easiest men to see, and this is certainly true in the case of Judge Halloran, he gave us his time very willingly for this little portrait, and we wish to thank him sincerely for his courtesy and generosity to print it.