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Hornbeck, John W

lawyer, congressman, was born in New Jersey. He was a member of the house of representatives in congress from Pennsylvania from 1847 to 1848. He died Jan. 16, 1848, in Allentown, Pa.

HORNBLOWER, JOSEPH COERTON, lawyer, jurist, was born May 6, 1777, in Belleville, N. J. He was elected by the joint meeting of the legislature of New Jersey chief justice of that state in 1832, and re-elected in 1839, making his full term on the bench fourteen years. He died June 11, 1864, in Newark, N. J.

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