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George Albert Wilbur (August 4, 1832 – June 9, 1906) was a justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court from 1885 to 18__.
Born in Burrillville, Rhode Island.
Judge Wilbur was born in 1832, and was admitted to the bar in 1862. Though coming to the bar late, he did not permit his desire to begin his professional career to gain the mastery over his patriotism. He enlisted in 1862, was promoted to the rank of captain, and after having seen much hard service in the field, was mustered out at the end of the war. From 1865 till 1872 he was presiding justice of the Woonsocket court of magistrates. From 1872 till 1885 he was Trial Justice of the Justice Court of Woonsocket. He was for five years State Senator, and during a portion of that time chairman of the Judiciary Committee. Upon the resignation of Judge Carpenter, in 1885, Judge Wilbur was elected an associate justice. By assignment of the court he holds the Court of Common Pleas, his time being largely taken in the trial of the criminal docket.[1]
- E.C. Bowler, An Album of the Attorneys of Rhode Island (1904)
Of Woonsocket.[2]
References[edit]
- ^ Stephen O. Edwards, "The Supreme Court of Rhode Island", in Horace Williams Fuller, et al., eds., The Green Bag, Vol. 2. (1890), p. 543.
- ^ Samuel H. Allen, "Rhode Island Judiciary", in James N. Arnold, ed., The Narragansett Historical Register (1889), Volume 7, p. 63.
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