Pueblo County CO Archives Biographies.....Gast, Robert S. 1879 - 
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Author: Wilbur Fiske Stone (1918)

ROBERT S. GAST.

    Robert S. Gast, engaged in the practice of law in Pueblo as a member of the
firm of Adams & Gast, has by reason of individual worth and ability in his
profession won a creditable position in the front ranks of the legal fraternity
in his section of the state. Pueblo numbers him among her native sons. He was
born on the 27th of September, 1879, his parents being Charles E. and Elizabeth
S. (Shaeffer) Gast. At the usual age he entered the public schools and further
continued his education in a preparatory school in Lawrence, New Jersey. He then
entered Yale and was graduated within its classic walls in 1902, at which time
the Bachelor of Arts degree was conferred upon him. A review of the broad field
of business led him to the determination to enter upon a professional career and
with that end in view he matriculated in the Columbia Law School of New York and
won his LL. B. degree upon graduation with the class of 1905.

    Mr. Gast then returned to his home in Pueblo and joined his father in
practice as junior partner in the firm of Gast & Gast, an association that was
maintained until his father's death on the 11th of May, 1908. He thus had the
benefit of the experience of his father and with the passing years his own
powers in the profession developed. The zeal with which he has devoted his
energies to his profession, the careful regard evinced for the interests of his
clients and an assiduous and unrelaxing attention to all the details of his
cases, have brought him a large business and made him very successful in its
conduct. His arguments have elicited warm commendation not only from his
associates at the bar but also from the bench. He is an able writer; his briefs
always show wide research, careful thought and the best and strongest reasons
which can be urged for his contention, presented in cogent and logical form and
illustrated by a style unusually lucid and clear. Since his father's death he
has been a member of the firm of Adams & Gast, which is accorded a very liberal
clientage.

    On the 16th of May, 1908, Mr. Gast was united in marriage to Miss Corinne
Busey, a daughter of Dr. A. P. Busey. Mr. Gast has always given his political
allegiance to the republican party, but while he keeps well informed on the
questions and issues of the day and is therefore able to support his position by
intelligent argument, he has never sought or desired office. Fraternally he is
connected with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. His fellow townsmen
attest his personal worth as well as his professional skill and the consensus of
public opinion places him in the front rank among Pueblo's citizens.


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HISTORY OF COLORADO

ILLUSTRATED
VOLUME 1I
CHICAGO
THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY
1918


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