hide Matching Documents

The documents where this entity occurs most often are shown below. Click on a document to open it.

Document Max. Freq Min. Freq
The Daily Dispatch: October 9, 1862., [Electronic resource] 6 0 Browse Search
View all matching documents...

Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: October 9, 1862., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for John Taylor Lomax or search for John Taylor Lomax in all documents.

Your search returned 3 results in 1 document section:

The Daily Dispatch: October 9, 1862., [Electronic resource], The late Judge Lomax. (search)
The late Judge Lomax. A purer character than John Taylor Lomax' whose lamented death we have lately chronicled, never graced Virginia in her best days. He was born on the 19th of January, 1781; studied the profession of law, and obtained the first rank in the courts in which he practiced. In 1812 he joined the army and holdJohn Taylor Lomax' whose lamented death we have lately chronicled, never graced Virginia in her best days. He was born on the 19th of January, 1781; studied the profession of law, and obtained the first rank in the courts in which he practiced. In 1812 he joined the army and hold the rank of Colonel till the close of the war. At the solicitation of Ex-President Jefferson; he was appointed Professor of Law at the Virginia University, a post which he filled with signal honor and usefulness. In 1831, he was appointee, Judge of the Fredericksburg Circuit, and a few years thereafter was made Doctor of Laws by to seventy years, and had sent it to a committee to be engrossed, but as seen as it was made known that this would deprive the State of the judicial services of Judge Lomax, the limitation of age was stricken from the bill. In 1858, he resigned his office and retired to private life. Never did any one present a more beautiful exa