Address on Presentation of a Bust of Judge Gibson on Behalf of His Grandson Thomas P. Roberts, Esq.: And Acceptance for the Association (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Excerpt from Address on Presentation of a Bust of Judge Gibson on Behalf of His Grandson Thomas P. Roberts, Esq.: And Acceptance for the Association

Judge Gibson was elected in October, 1851, and took his new seat on the bench of the Supreme Court as an Associate Justice in January, 1852, having drawn a term of moderate length. On 'may 3rd, 1853, he died in Philadelphia, and was buried in Carlisle in the old graveyard on May 5th, 1853. For40 years he had been: a Judge in Pennsylvania with a salary and per a'z'em expenses of probably under an average of per year, and at the time of his death his estate, including what came to him through his wife, amounted to about His classmate, Metzger, retired from practice after 25 years with a competency of over$40, the savings from which during nearly 50 years more of life, made a very handsome estate.

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