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The Daily Dispatch: October 6, 1862., [Electronic resource], The Handbook of Sovereigns. (search)
Death of Judge Lomax. Hon. John Tayloe Lomax died in Fredericksburg, Va, on the 1st inst., He was born in Caroline county, in 1781, and was a leading member of the bar of Fredericksburg in 1825, at which time he was called to the law professorship at the University of Virginia, which he filled for some five years. At the death of Judge Brokenbrough, Mr. Lomax was called from the University and appointed Judge of the Supreme Court, holding his first court, in Spotsylvania, in May, 1831, and continued in the discharge of judicial duties up to December, 1856, when he forwarded his resignation as Judge to the Governor, to take effect the month following, 20th of January, 1857. As a Judge he was eminent, as a private gentleman respected and loved for his amenity of manner. As an example of Christian life, as a patriot in our period of trouble, the community in which he lived and the State has sustained an irreparable loss.