The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1851-07-10

Perry county, pennsylvania. Fle Is uie so"
of a worthy and distinguished revolutionary
officer, who served from the beginning TO
The end of that trying struggle, and was SUBJ
sequently killed in St. Glars defeat. Hav-
ing gone through the usual course OF acade-
mic studies, he entered Dickinson College at
Carlisle, and graduated at that institution.
He studied law with the late Thomas Dun
can, of Carlisle, who was afterwards one oil
his associates on the Supreme Bench. On
his admission to he bar, Judge Gibson re-
moved TO Beaver, Pa, where he practised
law for about two years, and then returned
10 Carlisle iva elected by the Democrats
of Cumberland county TO the Stale Legisla-
lure for two successive years, and whilst
there took an active part in preventing the
re-charter of the first bank of the United
States, and in supporting the war against
England, by the advocacy of resolutions by
the State Legislature OH those subjects. In
order 10 aid the General Government in OBJ
tanning funds, he was greatly instrumental
in repeating the prohibition in our Stale
Bank charters from loaning more than $780,
600 TO the General Government. He was ap-
pointed by Governor Snyder President OF
the XIlh Judicial District, composed of the
counties of Bradford, Tioga, Wayne and
Susquehanna and after filling that situation
for some time, during which the district was
partially changed so as TO include Luzerne,
he was in 1916, appointed BY the same Gov.
ernor a Judge of the Supreme Cour: in place
of Hugh Henry Breckenridge, deceased.
On the 18th Of May, 1927, he was appoin-
ted by Governor Shultz, Chief Justice oil
Pennsylvania, on the decease OF the late Z.
J. Tilghmah. His opinions as Associate Jus.
lice and Chief Justice will be found IN all
our volumes of reports, from I'd Sergeant
and Rawle down to the present time. They
bear the impress of his giant intellect and OF
the sound knowledge OF legal principles
which he possesses. 1t has been well said
of him that his mind is a perfect stream OF
light. His nomination on the present occa-
sion is peculiarly proper, as he will be the
connecting link between the present Court
and that which is TO succeed it, and he will
bring 10 his associates on the new bench,
the light which thirty five years experience
must necessarily shed, and which the great
purity and integrity Of his character cannot
fail TO impart.
There is no greater mind upon any exist
ing bench, than that possessed by this dis
tinguished j%urisr, whose judicial reputation
is not confined 20 Pennsylvania or the Union.
For his high attachments as a. Civilian, he
has been created L L. D.. by both the Uni
v~ersities of Pennsylvania and Harvard.
WALTER II. LOWRIE was born in
Armstrong county, Pennsylvania He is the
son of Matthew b: Lowrie, formerly Mayor
of Pitisburg, and comes of that honest, up
right and intelligent stock OF people who
emigra,ed from the province of Ulster, and
have done so much for the cause of educa-
ton, sound morals and popular rights in this
Western World. He is now Al years of age
and was reared and educated at Pittsburgh
where he graduated in the Western Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania, al the age of nineteen.
He read law under Judge Shaler of Pitts
burgh, and was admitted to the bar in 1929.
During a portion of his studies he taught a
classical school, and thus was disciplining
his own mind whilst imparling knowledge
to others. After admission, he pursued his
profession with diligence and success in the
great iron city of the West, and attained
such deserved distinction in it, that in 1912
he was unanimously chosen Professor Of
Law in his Alma Mater, the duties of which,
besides attending 10 his owing practice,
he continued to perform with great credit,
until the University buildings were destroy
ed in the great conlagraiion of 1915. His
selection for such a situation from a bar as
numerous and talented as that of P%ittsburg,
by the learned gentlemen who had charge Of
the institution, as no slight tribute 10 the
talents and worth Of one who was then COM
paratively young in years. Public opinion
fully ratified the choice, as it did the APP
pointment which he received in 1916 from
Governor Skunk, Of Assistant Jadge of the
District Court for the county OF Allegheny,
which had become vacant by the promotion
of Hon. Hopewell Hepburn 10 the Presiden.
cy of that Court, in place OF Judge Grier
appointed to the Supreme Court of the Uni
ted States. Succeeding as he did two such
able and eminent men as Judges Grier and
Hepburn, he has sustained himself in this
judicial station and has given universal sat-
i~sfac,ion, by the untiring industry with
which he has devoted himself 10 ii, and by
the ability, intelligence, and pIomptness
with which he has met and treated the null
hilarious questions of law and equity which
have been constantly arising in that court,
growing out of the increased business and
commerce of oar great Western Emporium.
He possesses a clear and lucid intellect, is
/ we'll read, tot only in his profession, but in
almost every branch Of general literature
and science. He posses ses great power of
analysis and great patience in investigation.
His manners on the bench, as well as in his
private Intercourse are bland and courteous,
and his opinions, many of which have been
given 10 the world, satisfy the profession and
the public of his capacity and legal attain
ments. No man could stand higher for
strict and unbending integrity, and five years
experience on the bench have satisfied the
public of his high integrity for the discharge
oil judicial functions.
AS will always be the case, their minds
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