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ROBERT LINN LAWRENCE
Originally published in 1900 |
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ROBERT LINN LAWRENCE, one of the prominent members of the
bar of Jersey City, was born in Sparta, Sussex County, N. J., October 4,
1851. He is the son of Thomas and Margaret Rembert (Taylor) Lawrence
and a great-grandson of Thomas Lawrence, of "Morrisvale," Sussex County,
who was appointed Judge of the Sussex County Court of Common Pleas
in February, 1801. His great-great-grandfather, Lewis Morris, was one
of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence and Judge of the Court
of Admiralty from 1760 to 1876, and the son of Lewis Morris, Sr., who was
Judge of the Court of Admiralty in 1738, having jurisdiction in the Provinces of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. Lewis Morris, the father
of Judge Lewis Morris, Sr., last named, was Governor of New Jersey, Judge
of the Court of Common Pleas in 1692, and Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court of New York from 1715 to 1733.
Robert L. Lawrence thus numbers among his ancestors, some of the most distinguished men in the professional history of New Jersey and New York, and at an early age developed those sterling qualities which characterize his race. He was graduated from Princeton College in the class of 1873, with honors, and afterward read law with Thomas Anderson, of Newton, N. J., being admitted to the bar of the State as an attorney in November, 1876, and as a counselor in June. 1885. Since 1876 Mr. Lawrence has been actively and successfully engaged in the practice of his profession in Jersey City, where he steadily rose to prominence among the members of the Hudson County bar. Endowed with broad intellectual qualifications, with superior judgment and great energy, he has through his own efforts achieved distinction as an able, industrious, and painstaking lawyer, and is highly esteemed and respected by all who know him. He was associated with Stewart Rapalje in conducting the Criminal Law Magazine from the commencement of the work until 1883 and in the preparation of that valuable and well known work entitled Rapalje and Lawrence's Law Dictionary. These enterprises as well as a number of other important achievements in the field of legal literature have gained for him a wide reputation in both legal and literary circles. Mr. Lawrence was married on the 18th of December, 1893, to Lillian M. Fisher, daughter of the late John H. Fisher and Jeannette P. (Walters) Fisher, of Jersey City, N. J., where they reside.
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