The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1900-07-17
The new JUSTICE
Abraham Q. Garretson Sue
ceeds Job H. Lippincott
on Supreme Court
Bench.
HIS SERVICES TO The STATE
Many Offices From Which
His Appointment Compels
Him to Resign.

Governor VOORHEES, yesterday sent a tele-
gram to ex-Judge Abraham O. Garretson,
offering him the appointment of Associate
Justice of the Supreme Court of this State
TO fill the vacancy caused by the death of
Justice j. III. Lippincott. Mr.. Garretson at
once accepted the honor.
He was in this city this morning
and many on street stopped him
to offer congratulations He will
attend this afternoon his last meet
ing as President of the Title
Guarantee and Trust Co., over which he
has presided for SO long a time
This appointment will necessitate of his
resignation from that institution, and also
from the dictatorship of the Traction
Company and the Third National Bank
He will also retire from his partnership
with Mr.. Vredenburgh.
His commission from the Governor will
be received in a day or two, and he will
be sworn in soon after. The new Jus
tees circuit will be that formerly of Jus
tice Collins now removed to this vounty.
Abraham @. Garretson was born March
H. 1872, in Somerset County. and when
thirteen years old he left the public sch6ol
of his native town and entered the Tren-
ton Academy. Trenton. Prepared by well
known masters, he entered Rutgers Col
lege, 1859, and in 1862 was graduated from
that seat of learning. He began the study
OF law in the office of the late Chancellor
Aabriskie He went to Harvard Law
School for one year, returning to the
Chaneellor's office after the course. To
the bar he was admitted as an attorney in
1865 and three years later became a coun-
selor. Governor Randolph in 1859 appoint
ed Mr.. Garretson Prosecutor of the Pleas
of this county to succeed the late Chancel-
lor McGill Governor Parker reappointed
him in 1874 In 1878 he resigned the office
to assume the higher dignity of Judge of
the Common Pleas again to succeed
Chancellor McGill. 1t was Governor Nc
Clellan who appointed him to that honor.
After serving five years on the bench and
at the expiration of his term, he entered
into a law partnership with Mr. James
B. Vredenburgh.
In 1879 Mr.. Garretson married Miss Jo-
sephine Boxer of Philadelphia, and they
have three children. The family resides
in Morristown. A few years ago when the
Noonan-Simpson conspiracy case startled
the community, Governor Griggs appoint
ed Mr.. Garretson as Acting Prosecutor of
the Pleas to try the Indictment against
the two lawyers, Mr.. Winfield being near
ly then at deaths door. The result of
that trial everybody knows.
Throughout his public and private career
Mr.. Justice Garretson, as he must be
styled, has ever, said lawyer this morn
ing, been an upright, conscientious, just
and painstaking judge and citizen with
out fear or reproach. His appointment will
give general satisfaction.
Mr.. Justice Garretson is Democrat,
and was formerly member of the Hud-
son County Democratic Society. He
rarely took a very active part in politics
until the campaign for Chancellor Nc
Gill against John w. Griggs for Cover
nor, when he made some speeches. He
is a member of the Palma and Carteret
Clubs