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Job H. Lippincott

Born
  
November 12, 1842Vincentown, New Jersey (
1842-11-12
)

Died
  
5 July 1900, Jersey City, New Jersey, United States

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

Biography

He was born on November 12, 1842 near Mount Holly, New Jersey to a Quaker farmer and raised on the family farm in Vincentown, New Jersey. He attended Mount Holly Seminary. He is a 1865 graduate, with the degree of bachelor of laws, of the Dane Law School at Harvard University.

He was president of the board of education of Hudson City, New Jersey from 1868 to 1871. He married Keziah Budd on August 19, 1878 and they had a son, Job Herbert Lippincott.

Lippincott was United States Attorney for New Jersey from 1886 to 1887 and associate justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court from 1893 to 1900, replacing George Theodore Werts. He served as the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles of New Jersey in 1913.

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

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Job H. Lippincott Wikipedia


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