Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1873-08-22
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ISAACG. GORDON.

Our candidate for Supreme Judge, wos
born in Northumberland county in 1926
and is now in his forty-eighth year. lIo
comes ofa good old Scotch-Irish stock, and
his grandfather, who settled in Northumber-
land county, was man of marked ability
and one of the best educated men of his
day. lie was highly esteemed i'll all that
region, and has left kindly remembered
name behind him. The father of Judge
GORDON died when his son was quite
young, and the latter was then left to push
his way in the world as he best might
His mother found employment for him in
q foundry, whittier he went to learn trade
by which he might earn n living but an
accident by which some boiling iron was
spilled over one of his feet severely crippled
him, aud he was forced to find some other
employment.
Through the kindness of some friends,
still living, he was enabled to study law
with JAMES l.. LINN, Esq, in Lewisburg,
Union county, where he was afterwards
admitted to the bar, and practiced for Sc
veral years with great success. lie then
removed to Clearlield, where he went into
partnership with Hon. G.. "A. BARRETT
but in few years he took up his residence
in Brookville, Jefferson county, where he
has resided ever since.
GORDON that, in the late State Convention,
the delegates from Northumberland, Un-
ion and Clearfield counties all voted for him
from the start, and that he eventually got
the votes of the delegates from the entire
middle region of the State, where he was
born and grew up 70 manhood. His per-
sonal popularity in that section is very
great, and is an honorable testimony to the
high character he bears among those who
have known him from his youth up.
In 1860 and 1861 he was elected to the
Legislature from Jefferson county, where
he served as Chairman of the judiciary
Committee of the House, maintaining an
unsullied reputation throughout; and a
vacancy occurring a few years after on the
bench in the Mercer judicial District, he
was appointed by Governor CURTIN as
President Judge to serve until Judge
could be elected by the people. The dis
trict being then Democratic, he could not
be elected but he filled the vacancy with
great credit to himself and to the gel eral
satisfaction of the bar.
In his own county he has for many years
stood at the head of his profession, and he
has long enjoyed very large practice, not
only in that but i'll @djoining counties.
| This practice has rendered him familiar
with all the difficult questions arising out
of disputed land titles, as also with the
many complicated disputes that have
grown out of leases and occupancy of oil
territory and he will accordingly carry
with him, if elected to the Supreme Bench,
legal experience extremely large, varied
and valuable. .r.
Among his own people Judge GORDON
stands remarkably well. His life and
character have been exemplary, aud al
though always man of pronounced po-
litical opinions, he has yet always retained
! the personal esteem and regard of the
community in which he lives. If, there
fore, 10 be an upright man, a good Judge
and an able lawyer qualify a man for II
! place in the Court of last resort, Judge
GORDON may be truly said to come fully
up to the mark, and the Republican party
Of Pennsylvania may congratulate itself
upon having for its candidate man with
a clear head and clear hands, who will at
without fear and whose life is without re-
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