Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-04-14
JUDGE ROSS DEAD.
His sudden Decease From Rheumatism o
the Heart.

JIG QeAECs
Hon. Henry P. Ross, president judge of
the Montgomery county courts, died at
his residence in Norristown, last evening
at 7:30 o'clock, of paralysis of the heart,
in the forty-sixth year of his age. For
several weeks past he had been suffering
from infammatory rheumatism of his
arms. Wednesday week he delivered
his last decision in the Councilmanic case,
and on the following Thusday held court
for the transfer of liquor licenses. he
was too i'll to hold court on Saturday, but
on Monday he again presided When he
reached home that day he was over heated
and felt so badly that he retired to bed.
At tea time to day the judge was resting
quietly, but shortly afterward his hands
became cold, and there were indications
that the rheumatism had reached the
region of the heart. His wife and family
physicians were hastily summoned, but
their efforts to aid the invalid were in vain,
and at half-past seven Judge Ross was !.
corpse.
Few persons in town knew of Judge
Ross illness, and when his sudden death
was announced the community was star
tied and the bereavement brought fourth
expressions of sorrow and grief from
everybody. George Ross, the judges
only brother, lives at Doylestown, and
the sad tidings were Immediately wired to
him. He has been summoned and will
make arrangements for the interment
which will take place at Doylestown. The
judges death leaves tho members of the
bar in a sad predicament, as none of the
new cases to to heard in the supreme court
on Monday next had been certified by him.
Immediate action will therefore be taken
by the bar to have the governor appoint q
successor in order that the pressing court
business may be disposed of. A meeting
OF the bar will be held in the courtroom
tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock. Judge
Ross mother died at Doylestown only
about month ago.
Henry Pawling Ross was born in DOyles-
town, Dec. is, 1886, and was the son of
Hon. Thomas Ross, of Doylestown, a law
yer of the Bucks county bar, who repre-
sented his district in Congress from 1S4S
to 1852. His father was Hon. John Ross,
who presided on the Bucks county bench,
and was an associate justice of the su-
preme court of this state. Judge Ross
graduated from Princeton college in
1857, and studying law with his
father, was admitted to practice Decom-
ber 1G. 1859, the anniversary of his birth
day. In 1864 and 1866 he was the can
didatc of the Democgati: party in the
Fifth Pennsylvania district, for Congress,
and in 1864 and 1868 was delegate to the
Democratic national convention. He was
. close student and devoted himself asSidu
ously to attaining legal knowledge, which
fact and his general known tastes for
judicial work prompted the Democratic
party to name him for additional law
judge of the Seventh judicial district,
to which position he was elected in
1860, serving until 1871, when he
resigned to accept the president
judgeship, to which he had been elected
at the general election Of that year.
Ho was reelected to the position last fall,
being the choice of his own party and a
large portion of the Republican party. In
1866 he married Mary, daughter of Alfred
Wharton, of Princeton, N. ]. During
Judge Ross judicial term he was candi-
date before two state conventions for su-
preme judge, and once for governor, al
ways having strong following in the
conventions. He was prominent in all
for the improvement of the
condition of his fellow men, and earnest !
and active in the cause of popular educa-
tion. His ability as lawyer vas marked
by his forcible legal arguments and power |
as a pleader; and as a judge he admins
tered the law with conscientious adhe- !
renee to right, and an acute knowledge of
the subject in controversy, which won for |
him the admiration and respect Of all.
other Notable Deaths.
George w. Gill, agent of the Worcester |
iron works, prominent railroad man and
we'll known Democratic politician, died
in his Office at Worcester, Mass,
yesterday morning.
Jacob Ellinger, president of the Drovers'
and Mechanics National bank, of Balti- |
more, died yesterday, aged 81 years. He |
was for many years one of the largest op- |
orators in live stock in Baltimore. !