Justice Souter always remained grounded in New Hampshire,” New Hampshire Supreme Court Chief Justice Gordon J. MacDonald said as the state's legal community mourned Souter's death.

A larger-than-life Granite Stater who was extraordinarily private is being remembered as someone who was one of a kind.

His lifestyle was spare — yogurt and an apple, consumed at his desk, was a typical lunch — and he shunned Washington’s social scene.