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In 1790 the county was divided into town- ships under Pennsylvania authority. These townships were organized into ten districts, for the election of justices of the peace. Among these districts were the Sixth District, which was formed from Braintrim and Wyalusing, having two hundred and twenty-five taxables, who elected H. D. Champion, Jonathan Stevens and Guy Wells justices. The Ninth District was Rush, with one hundred and three taxables, who elected Isaac Hancock justice. The Tenth District, which was composed of Willing- borough, Lauesville and Nicholson townships, with two hundred and eighty-six taxables, elected John Marcy, Thomas Tiffany and Asa Eddy justices. The county of Susquehanna was comprised in these ten election districts. Those first townships were somewhat indefinite as to boundaries, and have since been divided and changed by the erection of new townships and new counties. Some of these township names also
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have disappeared. The first court-house in Wilkes-Barre was located on the site of the old fort, in the public square. It was built of hewn logs, twenty-five by fifty feet, and two stories high, with outside steps leading to the court-room on the second floor.
The first story was used as a jail and jailor's residence, and the second story contained the court-room. "1This primitive temple of justice was completed in 1791, and Stephen Tuttle, whose good wife placed her cake and beer sign over the door of the first story, was appointed first jailor." In 1804 a new court-house was erected on the site of the old one. The judges of the Supreme Court, who sat in these court- houses, were Mckean, Tilghman, Breckenridge, Smith and Yeates. Judge Conyngham, in his address in 1856, on the occasion of the laying of the corner-stone of the third court-house at Wilkes-Barresaid : "There were some ceremonies connected with the courts now entirely abro- gated. At the opening of every term the sheriff, with his staff of office, attended by the crier of the court, and frequently by several constables. waited upon the judges at their lodgings, and then conducted them in formal procession to the court-house. Judges Mc- Kean, Smith and others, of the Supreme Court, always wore swords when they attended court, some bearing rapiers and other heavier weap- ons." These Supreme Court judges started from Philadelphia on horseback, with their library in a pair of saddle-bags, holding about half a bushel, and their law in their heads. They were usually accompanied by lawyers, and after they arrived at Easton, usually more lawyers would join this itinerant court. They had to take such fare as they could get, and that was not always the best.' There was a log tavern in the back- woods of Pike County, on one of the old State roads, where the "court " sometimes stopped over-night. One time they came there late at night, after the occupants had all retired. After making considerable noise they succeeded in rallying the host, who stuck his head out of the window and asked, " What do you want ?" The judges, who were sitting on their horses,
replied, " We want to stay here all night." "Stay there then," said the host, and down went the window ; but he finally relented and gave them shelter for the night. Judge Jessup, in his address at the inauguration of the Wilkes- Barre court-house, in 1859, says that lie well remembered " when the court set out from Wilkes-Barre, followed by the bar on horse- back, through Cobb's Gap, Wayne, Pike and Susquehanna Counties, bringing up at Bradford County." These old-time judges put on a great deal of dignity in court, but when they and the lawyers were traveling together they were as jovial a sct of fellows as could be found in the State. "Court week" had a significance then which is not attached to it now. The travel- ing court, with the attending attorneys, created quite a stir at the county-seats in the pioneer days. The common people looked upon judges and lawyers with more awe and reverence then than now, and there was more litigation in proportion to the number of inhabitants. There were land titles to adjust, and suits growing out of the bark and lumber interests came a few years later. This class of civil suits has disappeared with the forests, and land titles are becoming settled. Jacob Rush, Thomas Cooper and Seth Chapman presided over the courts of Luzerne from 1790 to 1812.
In 1813 John Bannister Gibson, one of the ablest judges that Pennsylvania ever produced, held the first court in Susquehanna County, in the house of Isaac Post.
The first organization of the courts of Sus- quehanna County was made under the Constitu- tion of 1790.
The act of February 21, 1810, erecting Sus- quehanna County, provided in the third section thereof, " That for the present convenience of the inhabitants of the said counties of Ontario (now Bradford) and Susquehanna, and until an enumeration of the taxable inhabitants of the said counties shall be made ; and it shall be otherwise directed by law, the said counties of On- tario and Susquehanna shall be and the same are hereby annexed to the counties of Luzerne and Lycoming, in like manner as before the passage of this act, and the jurisdiction of the several courts of the counties of Luzerne and Lycom-
1 " Annals of Luzerne," page 243.
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ing, and the authority of the judges thereof shall extend over and shall operate and be effectual within the said counties of Ontario and Susque- hanna, and that the electors within the said counties shall continue to elcet at the same places, and with the counties of Luzerne and Lycoming, as heretofore." As the counties of Northumberland, Lycoming and Luzerne con- stituted the Eighth Judicial District, the above act continued Susquehanna County in that dis- trict until the act of March 24, 1812. Section I. changed the name of Ontario to Bradford ; Sec- tion II. enacted " that from and after the sec- ond Tuesday of October next, the inhabitants of the counties of Bradford, Tioga, Wayne and Susquehanna shall each enjoy and exercise in judicial concerns, all and singular, the jurisdic- tions, powers and privileges whatsoever, within the same, which the inhabitants of other coun- ties do, may or ought to enjoy, by the consti- tution and laws of this commonwealth."
Section III. provides "that the connties of Bradford, Tioga, Wayne and Susquehanna be, and the same are hereby erected into a separate judicial district or circuit, to be called the Elev- enth District, and a person of legal knowledge and integrity to be appointed and commissioned by the Governor to be president and judge of the Courts of Common Pleas within the said district," and two other proper persons were to be appointed in each county as associate judges, to have jurisdiction after the second Tuesday of October, as judges of the Courts of Common Pleas, Oyer and Terminer and General Gaol Delivery, Orphans' Court and Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace. These judges were to be sworn by the prothonotary of Luzerne County and their oaths filed in the respective counties. Section VII. provided for the election of commissioners in each county to erect a court- house, prison and county offices ; and the first court of Susquehanna is ordered to be held at Montrose, in the house of Isaac Post.
The first record of any court in Susquehanna County reads as follows :
" SUSQUEHANNA COUNTY SS.
" At a Court of General Quarter Sessions of the Peace, held at Montrose, in and for the County of Susquehanna, on the fourth Monday of January, 1813,
Before the Honorable John B. Gibsou, President of the Court of Common Pleas, and William Thomson and Davis Dimock, Judges of the same Court, came the Sheriff of the said county and returned the sev- eral writs and processes to him directed and returna- ble here the same day, among which he produced a certain ' venire facias juratores,' with a panel thereto annexed, which, being called over, the following per- sons appeared : Walter Lyon, Phineas Aims, Jacob Roberts, Isaac Brownson, Jonathan West, James Thayer, Jedediah Salmon, Luther Dean, Wright Chamberlain, Joseph Chapman, William C. Turrel, James Cook, Edward Dimock, John Belcher, Amos Harding, Noah Alden, Jirah Stephens, Noah Tiffany, Asahel Swelt, Joseph Raynsford, Thomas Scott."
This first grand jury was dismissed by the court. The commissions of the judges, sheriff and prothonotary were read. " 25th January, 1813, on motion by Mr. Wilson, Ebenezer Bowman was admitted and sworn as an attor- ney of this court." Then, on motion of Mr. Bowman, David Scott, Garrick Mallery, Na- than Palmer, Putnam Catlin and Henry Wil- son were admitted and sworn as attorneys of this court. Benjamin Lathrop was appointed constable of Bridgewater township, and it was ordered that all applications to be recommended to the Governor for tavern licenses be made at the April sessions. There were petitions pre- sented to this court for the appointment of viewers for eighteen different roads and the re- view of two others. These viewers were all appointed, and most of the roads asked for were subsequently granted. Another petition asked for viewers for a bridge across the Wyalusing, near Joab Picket's. Joshua W. Raynsford, Isaac Post, Luther Dean, Isaac Peckins, Stephen Wil- son and Jonah Brewster were appointed. There were also petitions praying for new townships to be called Choconut, Gibson and Lenox. Joab Picket was appointed constable of Rush. The first suit in Quarter Sessions was brought by the overseers of the poor of Clifford against David Taylor, for the maintenance of a pauper -Scott for the plaintiff, and Mallery for the defendant. Both of these men who were en- gaged in this petty suit afterwards became dis- tinguished judges. The first commonwealth case was against Obadiah Green, David Green and Charles Mattison, who were ordered " to give security to keep the peace and be of good
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behaviour towards all the good citizens of this commonwealth, and more particularly towards Isaac Post and John Bennet." Hon. John B. Gibson presided over the Eleventh District for about three years, until 1816, when he was ele- vated to the Supreme Bench of the State, where he maintained his position until his death, May 3, 1853. He was a Pennsylvanian, born 1780. His clear and forcible opinions given in the Su- preme Court reports are regarded as among the very best by the legal profession. Hon. Thomas Burnside, who also became a Supreme Court judge (a quarter of a century later, January 2, 1845, commissioned by Governor Shunk), suc- ceeded him in September, 1816. He presided until 1818, when, by act of February 25, 1818, the Thirteenth Judicial District was erected, em- bracing the counties of Susquehanna, Bradford and Tioga. Hon. Edward Herrick was ap- pointed presiding judge of this new district, and held his position from August, 1818, until his term expired by constitutional limitation under the Constitution of 1839. He had presided for nearly twenty-one years. Hon. John N. Con- yngham succeeded him in May, 1839.
By the act of April 12, 1840, taking effect from and after the 1st of the following January, Luzerne was transferred from the Eleventh Dis- trict to the Thirteenth, and Susquehanna from the Thirteenth to the Eleventh. Hon. William Jessup then presided in the Eleventh District, and by this transposition the residences of Judges Conyngham and Jessup were placed within their respective districts. Jessup first presided in Susquehanna County at April term, 1841.
By act of April 1, 1836, Monroe County was erected out of portions of Northampton and Pike and placed in the Eleventh Judicial Dis- trict. This continued until the act of April 10, 1844, detached Monroe from the Eleventh Dis- trict and united it with Carbon and Schuylkill, to form the Twenty-first District, leaving the Eleventh composed of Susquehanna, Wayne and Pike. No further change was made until act of April 5, 1849, when Wayne, Pike, Monroe and Carbon were erected into the Twenty-second District, and the Eleventh District was composed of Luzerne, Susquehanna and Wyoming.
In 1850 a constitutional amendment was adopted making the judiciary elective, fixing the term of the president judge at ten years from the first Monday of December following the election, and that of associate judges at five years; and vacating the commissions of all judges holding by appointment on the first Monday of December.
By act of 15th April, 1851, Bradford and Susquehanna Counties constitute the Thirteenth District.
Hon. David Wilmot was the first judge elected under the new Constitution, in October, 1851. He held the office until the summer of 1857, when he resigned to accept the Republican nomination for Governor. Hon. Darius Bullock was appointed to fill the vacancy, with the understanding that he should resign in case Wilmot was defeated. It so happened that Wilmot was defeated in his gubernatorial aspi- rations by William F. Packer, and Judge Bullock resigned after having presided a few mouths, and Mr. Wilmot was reappointed to preside in January, 1858, and re-elected the following fall for ten years. He resigned the judgeship to accept the United States Senator- ship in March, 1861, and Hon. Ulysses Mercur was appointed to succeed him, and the following October he was elected for a full term of ten years. He resigned the judgeship Marelı 4, 1865, to accept a seat in the Thirty-ninth Con- gress, which he held by re-election through the Fortieth, Forty-first and Forty-second Con- gresses, when he was elevated to the Supreme Court, and eventually became chief justice, a position whichi he held at the time of his death, in 1887.
Hon. Farris B. Streeter was appointed to fill the vacancy in 1865, and the following October elected to the same office for a full term.
By act of March 1, 1870, it was enacted that an additional law judge should be elected in the Thirteenth District.
Hon. Paul D. Morrow was appointed to this office March 1, 1870, and elected the following October for ten years from December, 1870.
By act of April 9, 1874, under the new Con- stitution, Susquehanna County constitutes the Thirty-fourth Judicial Distriet. As Judge
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Streeter resided in Susquehanna, and Judge Morrow resided in Bradford, it accommodated them both to have each preside in his home dis- trict. Judge Streeter accordingly presided in Susquehanna. He was re-elected over Ralph B. Little, in 1875, for a full term, and died in August, 1877.
Hon. William H. Jessup was appointed to fill the vacancy by Gov. Hartranft, and presided for about sixteen months, until the first Monday of January, 1879. Hon. J. B. McCollum, the present judge, having been elected the fall pre- vious, was commissioned for a full term from the first Monday of January, 1879.
ASSOCIATE JUDGES.1
Davis Dimock and William Thompson were appointed associate judges for this county at its organization, in 1812. The terms of all the judges were then "during good behavior ;" but the resignation of Judge Thompson, after serv- ing twenty-five years, created a vacancy which was filled by the appointment of Isaac Post in October, 1837, who served a little over five years. The limitation imposed by the Constitu- tion terminated Judge Dimock's services after nearly twenty-eight years, and Jabez Hyde was appointed in his place, March, 1840. His death, about eighteen months afterward, created a va- cancy, and Benjamin Lathrop was appointed in his place, November, 1841. He served five years.
Dr. Calvin Leet succeeded Judge Post, Feb- ruary, 1843, for five years.
Moses C. Tyler succeeded Judge Lathrop, March, 1847, for five years, nearly.
Charles Tingley succeeded Judge Leet in March, 1848. His term lasted only three and one-half years, as the amendment to the Consti- tution for the election of judges cut him off, and John Boyle and Davis D. Warner were elected associate judges for five years, in the Fall of 1851.
Urbane Burrows and Charles F. Read were elected in the fall of 1856.
1 Under the Constitution of 1874, a single county having forty thousand inhabitants is entitled to have a presiding judge, and constitutes a separate judicial district, in which case the office of associate judge is abolished. This provision of the Constitution abolished the office of associate judge in Susquehanna County.
Charles F. Read (second term) and I. P. Baker were elected in 1861.
Alfred Baldwin and R. T. Ashley were elec- ted in 1866.
James W. Chapman and Judson H. Cook were elected in 1871.
ATTORNEYS FROM OTHER COUNTIES ADMITTED TO THE BAR OF SUSQUE- HANNA COUNTY, FROM THE YEAR 1813 TO 1840.
WHEN ADMITTED.
NAMES.
COUNTIES.
1813, Jan. Term
Eben'r Bowman
Luzerne.
66
Garrick Mallery
Nathan Palmer
Putnam Catlin1
Henry Wilson
1813, Apr. Term
Ethan Baldwin
Bradford.
1813, Aug. Term ... Roswell Welles
Alpheus C. Stewart.
George Denison.
.
John Evans.
Thomas Dyer Edward Herrick2,
Bradford.
1813, Nov. Term
Luther Barstow
1814, Aug. Term
Thomas B. Overton.
Luzerne, Bradford.
1817, Sept. Term ...
Josiah H. Minor
Wayne.
1818, May Term
Thomas Welles.
1818, Dec. Term Amzi Fuller
1819, Aug. 31 ... Horace Williston3
Bradford.
1819, Sept. 2 Latham A. Burrows.
1820, Jan. 31 ... Oristus Collins
29 ... Chester Butler
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1821, Feb. 2 Simon Gages Throop
1821, Sept. Term ...
Dan Dimmick
Pike.
James W. Bowman Thomas W. Morris
Luzerne.
1824, Feb. Term
Stephen Strong
Oswego.
1824, Aug. Term
Win. Seymour
Luzerne.
1826, Sept. Term
Thomas Fuller
Wayne.
1826, Dec. Term ... Ezra S. Sweet
David Woodcock
Wayne.
1830, Aug. Term Robert Charles Johnson
Broome.
1831, Aug. Term ... George W. Woodward.
Luzerne.
1833, Dec. Term ... Volney L. Maxwell
1834, Dec. Term ..
Luther Kidder
1835, May Term ...
David Wilmot
Bradford.
1836, May Term ...
Lewis Jones
Luzerne.
1840, Nov. Term ...
Hendrick B. Wright.
Aud many later admissions.
RESIDENT ATTORNEYS.
WHEN ADM'D
NAMES.
WITH WHOM STUDIED.
1814, Apr.
Charles Catlin
Attorney from Luzerne.
1816, Sept.
Almon H. Read.
Attorney in Vt. Ex'd.
1817, May
5 Benjamin T. Case.
Attorney iu Bradford Co.
1818, Dec. George Catlin.
At Wilkes Barre (?)
1820, Feb.
2 William Jessup
A. H. Reed.
1821, Apr.
Balthazer De Haert
1823, Feb.
3 James A. Gordon.
1826, May
1 Earl Wheeler
1828, Sept.
1 Benjamin Parke.
1828, Sept.
2 Ebenezer Kingsbury, Jr ...
1830, Aug.
30 Barzillai Streeter.
1830, Nov.
29 John J. Wurts.
1 1787, first court, May 29. In 1794, when he and E. Bowman, the only lawyers in Luzerne, declined to serve, two lawyers from Connecticut were imported.
2 Now president judge.
3 Horace Williston was a native of Sheffield, Conn., and the youngest brother of the late Seth Williston, D.D. He studied law in Elmira ; practiced in Binghamton, and also in Susquehanna County courts, many years, even after his removal to Athens, Bradford County. He was eminent in his profession, and distinguished for strict integrity and love of justice. He was president judge of the Thirteenth Judicial District. He died August 14, 1855.
Luzerne.
1821, Jan.
John N. Conyngham
1825, Aug. Term ... Henry Pettehone
Benjamin A. Bidlack
Owego.
1830, May Term George B. Westcott.
Wayne.
Nathaniel B. Eldred
Luzerne.
i homas Graham
David Scott
Attorney from Harrisburg. Win. Jessup.
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WHEN ADM' D.
NAMES.
WITH WHOM STUDIED.
WHEN ADM'D.
NAMES.
WITH WHOM STUDIED.
1830, Dec.
Attorney from Northampton.
1869, Apr. 12 Charles A. Warren E. L. Blakeslee.
A. O. Warreu.
1831, Jan.
Norman I. Post
1831, Aug.
30 Rinaldo D. Parker
1869, Aug. 9 Alex. H. McCollum.
1832, May
1 William Wurts
J. J. Wurts.
1869, Nov. 16 George H. Allen.
1870, Apr. 27 Eugene B. Hawley
Wm. D. Lusk.
1833,
1833,
1834, Nov.
17 Wm. C. Tiffany
B. T. Case.
1871, Oct. 17 C. E. Baldwin.
1836, May
5 James C. Biddle.
Win. Jessup.
18,2, Jan. 8 Stanley N. Mitchell Carmalt, Crossmon.
1836, Nov.
22 Ralph B. Little
Wheeler, Case, & D. Wilmot Dimock. Wm. Jessup. 66
1837, 1837,
Chris'r L. Ward Philip Fraser.
1875, Apr.
Eugene O'Neill.
Hon. J. B. McCollum.
1838, May
8 Joseph T. Richards
A. L. Post.
1838,
Lyman De Wolf.
Attorney from Bradford.
1838, Sept. 66
4 Ariel Carr. W'm. J. Turrell Robert J. Niveu
Wm. Jessup. 6.
1879, Apr. Geo. G. Watrous
Watson T. Barnes
Little & Blakeslee.
1839, May
8 Sylvester Abel
1840, Apr.
27 George H. Welles. Almon Virgil Sabin Hatch
Attorney from Warren. F. Lusk.
66 Edson W. Safford
J. B. & A. H. McCollum.
1880, Nov.
Andrew B. Smith
McCollum & Watson.
1841, Aug. 1842, Apr.
Franklin Fraser
Wiu. Jessup.
66 1843, Aug.
21 Albert Chamberlin.
Bentley & Richards.
1884, Jan.
William E. Williams Brown, David W
Little & Allen.
1886, Apr.
Wm H. Jessup, Jr ..
W. H. & H. C. Jessup.
1887, Jan.
Richard J. Manning. Wm. D. B. Ainey .. E. L. Blakeslee.
1841.
1845, Aug. 19 Naham Newton
Bentley & Richards.
1847, Apr. 19 Galusha A Grow
Little & Streeter.
1847, Aug. 16 John H. McKuue.
B. S. Bentley.
1847, Nov.
15 E. Henry Little
Attorney from Wayne.
1848, Apr.
17 Owen B. Tyler.
R. B. Little.
1848, Aug.
21 La Fayette Fitch Homer H. Frazier John C. Truesdell
B. S. Bentley. 66
R. B. Little.
1849, Aug. 20 Philo C. Gritman.
1849, Aug. 21 Johu C. Fish.
1850, Aug. 19 Ezra B. Chase. 66
Jolın C. Miller. Martin L. Truesdell
B. S. Bentley.
1852. John C. Fish. 1874-77. B. L. Baldwin.
1851, Nov. 17 William H. Jessup.
66
William H. Cooper
1856-62. A. Chamberlain.
1883. E. W. Safford.
1865-68. Dan'l W. Searle.
1886. F. I. Lott.
1852, Aug. 16 Andrew J. Davis.
E. B. Clase.
1854, Jan. 16 Frederick A. Case B. T. Case.
1855, Aug. 20 Urial C. Johnson. $6
W. J. Turrell.
J. Brewster McCollun R. B. Little.
1855, Nov. 19 C. Judsou Richardson Jessups.
1855, Nov. 20 Albert Busbnell.
B. S. Bentley.
1856, Apr. 7 Wm. M. Post ..
R. B. Little.
1857, Aug. 17 H. L. Emmons. Jessups
1857, Nov. 16 C. A. Lyman
S. B. Chase.
1858, Aug. 16 Ira Vadakin ..
Attorney from Wayne. 1859, Aug. 15 Truman L. Case Jessups. 66
1859, Nov. 21 Alfred Hand Daniel W. Searle.
Orlando C. Tiffany. Wm. D. Lusk Little & Post, Sam'l Sherrod.
1859, 1860, Aug.
20 B. S. Bentley, Jr.
Milo J. Wilson.
R. B. Little. F. B. Streeter.
66 Rienzi Streeter
66 Casper W. Tyler. David A Baldwin. Attorney from N. Y.
1860
1862, Jan. 20 Isaac J. Post
Jessups.
1862, Aug. 11 E. W. Smith
J. B. McCollum.
1862, Aug. 22 A. O. Warren.
F. B. Streeter.
Bentley & Fitch.
1862, Aug 25 L. M Bunnell
R. B. Little.
1863, Apr. 6 Wm. A. House.
66 George P. Little
1863, Nov. 25 Edwin M. Turner.
1865, Apr. 3 James Edward Carmalt.
1866, Aug. 13 Jonathan J. Wright.
1866, Nov. 12 William H. Frink.
1868,
Apr. 17 Thomas H. B. Lyons ...
1868,
Aug. 10 Charles L. Catlin.
J. B. McCollum. Attorney from D. C.
1868, Aug. 24 Monroe J Larrabee, W. J. Turrell.
1868,
Nov. 9 William A. Crossman .. F. B. Streeter.
66 Byron O. Camp. J. B. McCollum.
Willoughby W. Watson L. F. Fitch.
Huntting C. Jessup Win. 11. Jessup.
DISTRICT ATTORNEYS .- Prior to the year 1850 the attorney-general appointed deputies, who prosecuted commonwealth cases. Since that time the following persons have been elected district attorneys :
1850. John H. Dimock. | 1871. James E. Carmalt.
1851, Jan. 22 Simeon B Chase
F. B. Streeter.
1853-56. Frank Fraser.
1880. Freeman I. Lott.
Leonard B. Hinds
Lucins Robinsou, Jr. F. B. Streeter.
G. Clark Lyman.
B. S. Bentley.
1883, Apr.
H. W. B. Hewen.
W. T. Barnes.
Win. C. Salmon.
F. Lusk.
1884, Apr.
Jolin M. Kelly.
McCollum & Watson.
Benjamin F. Smith. William Fordham
Wm. J. Turrell & A. Carr.
D. Dimock, Jr.
Wm. Jessup.
A. L. Post.
66
20 Peter Byrne. Farris B. Streeter
Davis Dimock, Jr. F. Lusk.
1882, Aug. 66
Thomas J. Davis. George A. Post.
M. J. Larrabee.
66 W. Nelson Barnes
Little, Blakeslee & Allen.
Ezra Maxon
A. L. Post.
1876, Sept.
D. T. Brewster
66
1839, Feb.
5 Benjamin S. Bentley J. R. Barstow 66
66 1879, Jan.
Miller S. Allen.
Wm. D. Lusk.
1880, Aug.
Samuel F. Lane. E. R. W. Searle C. E. Lyman.
Daniel W. Searle.
1840, Nov. 1841, Apr.
30 Thomas P. Phinney. Davis Dimock, Jr. Albert L. Post ..
Attorney from Luzerne. B. T. Case
1870, Aug. 17 Benjamin L. Baldwin
Jessups, Crossmon.
Wm Jessup.
1871, Aug. 15 Edgar A. Turrell.
J. Ferris Shoemaker.
Jessups, Crossmon.
1872, Nov. 11 J. T. Richards.
Wilhur F. Lathrop.
Little & Blakeslee.
1875, Aug.
Freeman 1. Lott
Little & Blakeslee. 60
1875. Nov.
Chas. N. Warner. Mathew M. Riley 66
66
1876, Jan. .. John S. Courtright.
D. W. Searle. L. F. Fitch. Wm. J. Turrell.
Little & Blakeslee.
18 S. S. N. Fuller.
1844, Aug. 66
19 John H. Dimock Samuel B. Mulford George Perkins. George Baldwin Charles Kellun.
F. Lusk.
Attorney from N. Y.
F. B. Streeter.
Win. Jessup.
Wm. Jessup. 66
F. E. Loomis.
Jessups. Bentley & Fitch.
U. F. Hollenback
66
Attorney from Wyoming. Law School, Canibridge, F. B. Streeter and Jessups. Bentley & Fitch. A. Chamberlin.
Aaron Watson Bertholf.
Bentley, Fitch & Bontley.
J. B. McCollum. Attorney from Luzerne.
1832, Apr.
3 Ceplias J. Dunham 31 Franklin Lusk.
Michigan Union Law School and Little.
Attorney N. Y. Sup. Court
Wm A. Crossmion.
Harris W. Patrick
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