Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-05-04

business and conducted it under his
own name until the latter part of the
year 1882, when he formed a partner
ship under the firm name of Weiss &
Gilbert which continued until his part
ner, John II. Weiss, became a law
judge of the courts of Dauphin county.
Since that time Mr.. Gilbert has con-
Quoted his legal business in his own
name. He was for time associated
with Charles II. Bergner.
During his term as Deputy Attorney
General he was engaged in the trial of
all the important civil cases of the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, both
in its own courts and in various courts
of the United States, including the
United States Supreme Court. In 1875
Samuel +. Dmmick, then Attorney
General, died and for more than two
months Mr.. Gilbert. at the age of
so years, alone conducted the business
of the Attorney General of Pennsyl-
vania. His official service brought him
into association with and in opposition
to many of the leaders of the bar of
Pennsylvania whose names and services
are part of the history of the United
States.
He was for many years a solicitor
of the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany and of its affiliated corporations,
and of the Cumberland Valley Rail-
road Company, and of the Valley Rail-
ways Company, and has been attorney
for very many corporations, created
by other States as well as by Pennsyl-
vania. The Standard Oil Company has
been one of his clients. He has been
the adviser of many of the Off
GERS of the Commonwealth, and has
been concerned in very many of the
notable State litigatons of the last
thirty years. When the Military Court
of Inquiry made its examination of
the conduct Of Major NJ. A. Reno in
what is known as the Custer Fight
Mr.. Gilbert was the counsel of Major
Reno, and succeeded in acquitting his
client of the charges made against his
personal courage and military con-
duct.
Had Big Practice
His practice has been diverse, i'm
portant and profitable. He repeated
ly refused offers of legal partnership
in Pittsburgh and in Philadelphia. He
declined very important place in the
office of the Attorney General of the
United States during the term of
service of Wayne MacVeagh. He re-
fused the office of solicitor of the
United States Treasury when Benia-
min Harrison was president He three
times received and declined tenders
of appointments to judgeships in
Pennsylvania. When p. c. Knox was
Attorney General of the United States
he paid Mr.. Gilbert the compliment
of offering him high legal position,
which was also declined.
Mr.. Gilbert has been President of
the Pennsylvania State Bar Associa-
ton, the Dauphin County Law Asso-
citation, and of the Yale Alumni Asso-
citation of Central Pennsylvania. For
ten years he was chairman of the
Board of Managers of the Pennsylva-
MA Industrial Reformatory at Hunt
lngdon, accepting and retaining that
position because of his interest in the
work of attempting to reform criminal
offenders committed to the care of
that institution.
He was married in 1888 to Gabrielle
Cameron, daughter of George Cam
eron, of Petersburg, Virginia.
He was q delegate-at- large to the
Republican national convention in
1892, and to the conference on com
oinations and trusts held in Chicago
in 1899.
Various other political appointments
and preferments have been offered
him, but, with the above exceptions,
none of them have been accepted
Was Great Fisherman
He was member of a number of
clubs, in his own city and elsewhere.
But the club In whose membership he
most delighted is the Tourilli Fish and
Game Club. of Canada, which he has
been in the habit of visiting annually
for about twenty years, in company
with his friend. d. T. Watson, of the
bar of Pittsburgh.
During six months of each year,
Mr.. Gilbert lived in his home on the
banks of the Susquehanna river. in the
city of Harrisburg, and during the
balance of the year at his country
home, Fairfield House, on the south
ern side of the Cumberland Valley, in
the midst of pastoral scenery.
He passed away this morning at s
o'clock. but in the hearts OF his friends
he will live forever.