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ROBERT C. GRIER
was born March 5, 1794, in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania.
He was tutored b his father until age seventeen, when
he enrolled in Dickinson College, Grier was graduated
in 1812 at the age of eighteen and remained at Dickinson
College for one year as an instructor. Grier continued
his teaching career at a small school headed b his father
in Northumberland, Pennsylvania, where he taught subjects
ranging from mathematics to Greek and in 1815 succeeded
his father as principal of Northumberland Academy. While
teaching, Grier read law and passed the bar in 1817. He
began a practice immediately in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania,
and later practiced law for fifteen years in Danville,
Pennsylvania. On May 4, 1833, Grier was appointed to the
newly created State District Court of Allegheny County
and served there for thirteen years. On August 3, 1846,
President James K. Polk nominated Grier to the Supreme
Court of the United States, and the Senate confirmed the
appointment on August 4, 1846. Grier served twenty-three
years on the Supreme Court. He discontinued circuit riding
in 1862 and retired on January 31, 1870. He died less
than one year later, on September 25, 1870, at the age
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