About Gerrit Forbes
Lived 1836 – 1906 (aged 70). Gerrit Forbes was a lawyer and judge.
Gerrit Angelo Forbes (May 30, 1836 – September 22, 1906) was a justice of the Supreme Court of New York beginning in 1888. He served as District Attorney for Madison County from January 1871 to December 1874. He was a member of the Madison County and State Bar Associations. Forbes was serving his second term on the Supreme Court at the time of his death.
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American judge (1836–1906)
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Gerrit Forbes was born on 30 May 1836.
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Gerrit Forbes died on 22 September 1906.
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Gerrit Forbes was a lawyer and judge.
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