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The Supreme Court of New Jersey. were overruled by his immediate successor; but as a general rule, his opinions have re mained unquestioned. He served two terms of office, and retired from the bench in 1846. He became a member of the Constitutional Convention which framed the Constitution of 1844, and took a very active part in the de liberations of that body, and was very influ ential in shaping its action. In 1841 the

College of New Jersey conferred upon him the title of LL.D.; and after he left the bench the same insti tution attempted to establish a law school, and made him one of the professors; but the school was not suc cessful, and Mr. Hornblower in a measure resumed the practice of his profession. He did not meet with the success which might have been expected from his great experi ence and undoubted high order of talent. He delivered some lec tures in the law school at Princeton, and was not an idle man. WILLIAM L. He took a great interest in the public questions of the day, was an ardent politi cian, supporting in his young manhood the Federalist party, then the Whig, and when the Republican party was formed threw him self with all the forceful impulses of his na ture into that organization. He died in 1864, in his eighty-seventh year. He was an easy and fluent writer, rather diffuse, and his opinions, as printed, all bear the evidence of his strong, impulsive nature. He wrote well, logically, strongly; if any criticism were made upon his decisions, so far as literary merit is concerned, it would

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be that they sometimes lacked compactness and precision, were frequently disconnected, and seemed the result of a yielding to im pulse, and not to logic and argument; but his style was correct and often eloquent. He left quite a family : one of his daugh ters married Judge Woodruff, a judge of one of the Federal courts of New York; another married Hon. Joseph P. Bradley, an Associ ate Justice of the Su preme Court of the United States; and one of his sons was a distinguished divine in the Presbyterian Church, and at one time a professor in the Alleghany Seminary. In 1838 the number of the Justices of the Supreme Court was increased from three to five. John Moore White was one of the two additions to the court. He was born in 1770 at Bridgeton, in Cumberland County, studied law with Jo seph Bloomfield, was admitted as an at torney in 1791, as a counsellor in 1799, DAYTON. and became sergeant in 1812. His educa tion was quite limited, being that which was acquired by an ordinary English course. He began the practice of his profession at Bridgeton, but removed in 1808 to Woodbury, where he ever after lived. He made himself fully acquainted with the legal principles relating to real estate, was a good surveyor, and was able to try any cause which related to boun daries of land, or where the title to real estate was involved in an able manner. His rank at the bar, however, was not high, but his prac tice was large and lucrative, and he was con sidered a safe counsellor. In his early practice