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Job Hilliard Lippincott (November 12, 1842 – July 5, 1900) was a lawyer who served as United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey and was an
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of the
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.


Biography

He was born on November 12, 1842, near
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, to a Quaker farmer and raised on the family farm in the Vincentown section of
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. He attended Mount Holly Seminary. He is an 1865 graduate, with the degree of
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, of the Dane Law School at
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. He was president of the
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of
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, from 1868 to 1871. He married Keziah Budd on August 19, 1878, and they had a son, Job Herbert Lippincott.


Judicial Service

Lippincott was
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for New Jersey from 1886 to 1887 and associate justice of the
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from 1893 to 1900, replacing
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.


Death

He died at his home, at 132 Sip Avenue,
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, on July 5, 1900. He was interred in Mount Holly Cemetery.


See also

*
List of justices of the Supreme Court of New Jersey Current justices List of justices before 1947 Before 1947 and particularly after 1844, the structure of the New Jersey state judiciary was incredibly complex. In some cases, it is not entirely clear whether the following justices served on the ...
*
New Jersey Court of Errors and Appeals Prior to 1947, the structure of the judiciary in New Jersey was extremely complex, including Court of Errors and Appeals in the last resort in all causes. The Court of Errors and Appeals was the highest court in the U.S. state of New Jersey from ...
*
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References

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