Gobin, John P. S
soldier, lawyer, state senator, was born in 1838, in Sunbury, Pa. He was admitted to the bar just before the war began, and he entered the service as first lieutenant. He was soon appointed to the command of the regiment, and fought with the nineteenth army corps in the Red river campaign, and with Sheridan in the Shenandoah valley; and was brevetted brigadier-general. He was provost judge of South Carolina during the early reconstruction period. He settled at Lebanon, Pa., in 1866, and organized Post 42. He was state senator for sixteen years, and for several years president of the senate.
He has also long been prominent in Masonic and Grand Army circles; and in 1897 was elected commander in chief.
GOBRIGHT, LAWRENCE AUGUSTUS, journalist, author, was born May 2, 1816, in Baltimore, Md. He for some years owned and edited the Washington Star.
He also won fame as an author and lecturer, Men and Things in Washington During the Third of a Century being his best known book. He died May 22, 1879, in Washington, D. C.