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Issue of Francis and Rebecca (Warner) Rawle :-
Anna, b. Oct. 30, 1757, d. July, 1828; m. Sept. 16, 1783, John Clifford, and her dau. Rebecca became wife of John Pemberton;
WILLIAM, b. April 28, 1759, d. April 12, 1836; m. Sarah Coates Burge; of whom presently ; Margaret, b. 1760, d. Aug. 25, 1881, m. Isaac, son of Joseph Wharton of "Walnut Grove."
Their son, Thomas I. Wharton was a distinguished lawyer, and author of "Wharton's Digest of Reports of Decisions of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania."
WILLIAM RAWLE, only son of Francis and Rebecca (Warner) Rawle, born in Philadelphia, April 28, 1759, was but two years of age when the unfortunate and lamentable accident deprived him of his father. He was, however, left to the care of a mother well qualified to instill into the mind and heart of her brilliant son, the earnestness of purpose and fine qualities of Christian and civic virtue, that characterized his long and distinguished career. His early education was acquired at the Friends' Academy of Philadelphia and under private tutors. He was sixteen years of age at the beginning of the Revolutionary War, and prac- tically all his immediate relations and connections were either adherents of or sympathizers with the royal cause, including his gifted mother for whom, during all the period of her life, he gave constant proof of the deepest and strongest sentiment of filial love. His stepfather, Samuel Shoemaker, as before stated, an accomplished gentleman of extensive reading and cultivated tastes, was a Pro- vincial Royalist, who, though arrested by order of Congress with many other men of wealth and standing whose sympathies were not with the patriot cause, and confined in the Masonic Lodge room in 1777, escaped the exile to Virginia suffered by many of his associates, by giving his parole not to render aid to the enemies of his country, and remained in Philadelphia during its occupation by the British army, acting during that period as Mayor of the City. Surrounded by these influences, young Rawle remained entirely passive, but circumstances strongly indicate that he had little sympathy with the Tory sentiments of his relatives. When the British were about to evacuate the city, his stepfather retired with them to New York City, and, at the urgent request of his mother, young Rawle accompanied him and took up the study of law there under the Royal Attorney General, Mr. Kempe, the city being then under military government. After three years spent in diligent preparation for his chosen profession, pre-
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vented from returning to his native city by the political outlawry of his parents, he decided to go to London to pursue further his legal studies, and to take up the practice of law there until the close of the war would permit him to return to his native city, where, in a letter written to his mother before sailing, he stated his intention of settling, as soon as the clouds of war should roll by. He was admitted to the Middle Temple, London, August 17, 1781. The war having drawn to a close, he left England, April 24, 1782, and after a tour of the con- tinent and a visit to Dr. Franklin, at Passy, near Paris, he sailed for America, November 17, 1782, and arrived in Philadelphia January 17, 1783, after an absence from his native city of four and a half years. He was admitted to practice at the Philadelphia Bar on September 15, 1783, and November 13 follow- ing married Sarah Coates Burge, the "Sally Burge" of "Sally Wistar's Journal," born November 13, 1761, daughter of Samuel Burge, a distiller and merchant of Philadelphia, by his wife Beulah, daughter of Benjamin and Sarah (Coates) Shoemaker, and sister to Samuel Shoemaker, stepfather of William Rawle. Samuel Burge was a son of William Burge, a native of Burlington, New Jersey, (brother of the first wife of Col. William Trent, Provincial Councillor, of Penn- sylvania, and founder of Trenton) by his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Stacy, of Burlington county. Mrs. Rawle was one of that little coterie of girls of Philadelphia during the Revolutionary period, a glimpse of whose happy girlhood life is given in the delightful "Journal" of her intimate friend and associate, Sallie Wistar, and was a woman of many accomplishments and virtues. Her married life with Mr. Rawle continued over a period of upwards of forty years, and was ever serene and happy.
William Rawle at once acquired the confidence and esteem of his associates and fellow citizens, but his early professional career was beset with difficulties and discouragements, and not distinguished by early success. He persistently declined to take part in party warfare and always eschewed public office. Against his wish and positive declination, he was nominated and elected to General Assembly of the State in October, 1789, as a Federalist, to which party he gave his unswerving allegiance. The importunities of his friends prevailed upon him to serve in the unsought position. His practice had by this time become large and lucrative, and he preferred to give his whole time to the practice of his chosen profession.
In 1791 Mr. Rawle was appointed by President Washington to the position of United States Attorney for Pennsylvania, which he filled until 1800, when he resigned. He was offered by Washington the office of Attorney General of the United States, and also the Judgeship of the United States District Court, but declined both these honorable positions. As United States Attorney for Penn- sylvania, he accompanied in 1794 the Judge of the United States District Court and the military forces to Western Pennsylvania, to suppress the "Whiskey In- surrection," and it became his duty as attorney to prosecute the leaders of this insurrection as well as those of the "Fries Rebellion," of 1798.
Mr. Rawle took an active interest in the literary and scientific societies and associations of his time. He was elected member of American Philosophical Society ; secretary of Library Company of Philadelphia, and a director in 1792; elected in 1786, trustee of University of Pennsylvania, and applied himself dili- gently to the duties of that office, with zeal and punctuality, for a period of forty years. He was for many years attorney and counsel for Bank of United
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States. In 1805 he took an active part in the establishment of Academy of Fine Arts, and at the opening delivered an address urging and vindicating the claims of painting and sculpture to the encouragement and support of a republican country.
In 1821, on the incorporation of the Law Academy of Philadelphia, he was chosen its vice-president, in 1822 was unanimously chosen Chancellor of the As- sociated Members of Bar of Philadelphia, and five years later, when that asso- ciation was merged with the Law Library Company of Philadelphia under the title of Law Association of Philadelphia, he became Chancellor of the new asso- ciation and retained that position until his death. He was one of the founders of Historical Society of Pennsylvania, in 1824, and its president until his death ; making a number of communications that hold an honored place among its archives, among them, one on the "Valedictory Address of President Washing- ton": one respecting Heckwelder's "History of the Indian Nations"; a "Bio- graphy of Sir William Keith", and "A Sketch of the Life of Thomas Mifflin."
In 1827 the College of New Jersey, now Princeton University, conferred upon Mr. Rawle the degree of LL. D., and in 1828 he received the same honor from Dartmouth College. In 1830 he was appointed by the Governor, in pursuance of an act of Legislature, with his nephew Thomas I. Wharton, and Judge Joel Jones, to revise the civil code of Pennsylvania, and was chief author of reports of this commission, the valuable results of whose labors are embodied in existing statutes. He was also the author, among other valuable legal publications, of "A View of the Constitution of the United States", for forty years considered the leading authority on the subject.
Mr. Rawle's professional business after the year 1793 was very extensive and brought him a large income; he was associated with most of the important cases from that date for forty years. Not, in the accepted sense of the term, an orator, his address to a jury was simple in diction, free from all unnecessary ornamenta- tion, earnest and impressive. His deportment in the conduct of his professional business was always respectful and conciliatory to his professional adversaries, and it is said he never had an enemy at the Bar. "He sought and acquired that enduring reputation which is founded on the good opinion of the wise and vir- tuous of this world, and was an upright man of whom it may be truly said 'The talents lent him were well employed.'"
At a meeting of the members of the Philadelphia Bar held December 20, 1831, it was unanimously resolved that they were desirous of expressing their respect and regard for their venerable associate, and of preserving a likeness of one who had contributed to add honor to his profession, and they accordingly solicited Mr. Rawle to sit for a portrait, to be painted at their expense, and to be placed in the Law Library. Mr. Rawle complied with their request, and a very strik- ing likeness of him was painted by Inman, which still gives inspiration from the walls of the library to the worthy student who would emulate his noble example.
The accomplished jurist was a fine scholarly man of great artistic and literary taste. His classical knowledge was extensive and accurate, and he brought to his professional work a discriminating mind which enabled him to make the best use of what he had read. He was fond of poetry, and at one time of his life wrote verses; he also drew and painted well. He was by birth a member of the Society of Friends, and never ceased to entertain the highest respect for the So-
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ciety, attending their meetings, though he differed from them on some points peculiar to the sect, which he considered non-essential, especially as to language and attire. He was at all periods of his life devout in thought and action, and read and wrote much on religious subjects.
During the year 1835 his bodily infirmities increased rapidly, and he was sel- dom able to leave his house; but his mental vigor was unabated. He gave much time to reading, and found especial enjoyment in his books. In truth, literature, which had been "the delight of his youth, the relaxation of his manhood, was the solace of his declining years." After a confinement to his bed of several weeks, he died April 12, 1836, having passed a life of seventy-six years without stain or reproach.
Issue of William and Sarah Coates (Burge) Rawle :-
Elizabeth Margaret, b. Oct. 15, 1784, d. June 23, 1794 ;
Francis William, b. Jan. 27, 1786, d. Sept. 15, 1795;
Samuel Burge, b. July I, 1787; merchant at Philadelphia, later at Hong Kong, China; U. S. Consul to Hong Kong, and Macoa; d. Macoa, Sept. 2, 1858; m. at Pine Street Friends' Meeting, Philadelphia, Jan. 2, 1811, Ann, dau. of Jesse Waln, a Philadelphia merchant. She d. Philadelphia, Oct. 26, 1875 ;
WILLIAM, b. July 19, 1788, d. Aug. 9, 1858; m. Mary Anna Tilghman; of whom presently; Beulah, b. March 25, 1790, d. s. p. July 17, 1876; m. May 23, 1839, William Craig, a prominent merchant of Philadelphia, who d. July 14, 1869, she being his second wife; Rebecca Shoemaker, b. Feb. 20, 1792, d. unm. Sept. 26, 1814;
Sarah, b. Jan. 7, 1794, d. Sept. II, 1822, unm .;
FRANCIS WILLIAM, b. Sept. 28, 1795, d. at his country seat, "Fairfield," Lycoming Co., Pa., Oct. 27, 1881; m. Louisa Hall; of whom presently ;
Edward, b. Sept. 22, 1797, d. at New Orleans, Nov. 4, 1880; graduated at Univ. of Pa .. 1815: admitted to Philadelphia Bar, Jan. 2, 1823; removed to New Orleans, and admitted to Bar there April 19, 1824, and following Feb. was appointed Associate Judge of City Court, a position he held for some years; resided several years on his plantation in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana; resumed practice of law at New Orleans, was Attorney of Second Municipality of City, 1839-1846; one of the founders of public school system of New Orleans, and many years president of Board of Education; Fel- low of New Orleans Academy of Science, 1856; m. April 19, 1827, Appolina S. Claiborne, dau. of Joseph Saul, Esq., of New Orleans; she d. Feb. 27, 1844;
Henry, b. July 10, 1799; graduated Univ. of Pa. 1815; d. unm. June 2, 1816;
Horatio, b. March 20, 1801, studied law and admitted to Philadelphia Bar; d. unm. June 25, 1830;
Juliet, b. Aug. 26, 1804; d. in Philadelphia Oct. 20, 1883; m. Oct. 1, 1839, Rev. William Herbert Norris, of Alexandria, Va., later Rector of Christ Church, Woodbury, N. J. Norris d. Philadelphia, Feb. 18, 1880.
WILLIAM RAWLE JR., third son of William and Sarah (Burge) Rawle, born in Philadelphia, July 19, 1788, was educated at Princeton College and admitted to Philadelphia Bar May 21, 1810. During the War of 1812-14, he served as Captain of the Second Troop of Philadelphia City Cavalry. In the practice of his profession he attained a prominence and reputation little inferior to that of his father. In 1814, with Hon. Thomas Sergeant, he began the preparation of Reports of Decisions of Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, known to the legal fraternity as "Sergeant and Rawle's Reports", contained in eighteen volumes. Mr. Sergeant retired from the work in 1828, and it was continued to 1835, by Mr. Rawle, in five volumes.
Mr. Rawle was a member of Common Council of Philadelphia, 1835-40, and its president four years. He was elected member of American Philosophical Society in 1841. With his father he participated in the founding of the Histori-
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cal Society of Pennsylvania in 1824, and was many years its vice-president. He was secretary and later director of Philadelphia Library Company, and Trustee of University of Pennsylvania. He died at his son's country seat, August 9, 1858.
Mr. Rawle married, October 17, 1817, Mary Anna, daughter of Edward Tilghman, Esq., a leader of Philadelphia Bar, by his wife Elizabeth Chew, daugh- ter of Chief Justice Benjamin Chew. Mrs. Mary Anna (Tilghman) Rawle was born in Philadelphia, February 25, 1795, and died February 4, 1878.
Issue of William and Mary Anna (Tilghman) Rawle :-
Elizabeth Tilghman, b.' Philadelphia July 16, 1818, d. April 10, 1897; m. June 18, 1844, Charles Wallace Brooke, of the Philadelphia Bar, who d. Oct. 22, 1849. They had Elizabeth Tilghman, b. Philadelphia, July 7, 1841, d. there Sept. 28, 1894, unm .;
WILLIAM RAWLE, (who by legal authority reversed his name to William Brooke Rawle) ;
Charlotte, b. Philadelphia, Feb. 9. 1846, d. Nov. 21, 1885, unm .;
Charles Wallace, b. Philadelphia, Feb. 22, 1848, d. there Nov. 17, 1854.
WILLIAM HENRY RAWLE, b. Philadelphia, Aug. 31, 1823; graduated from Univ. of Pa., 1841, from which institution he received in 1882 the honorary degree of LL.D. He studied law with his father and was admitted to Philadelphia Bar, Oct. 12, 1844, and like his father and grandfather became later one of its leaders; acquiring eminence as a successful practitioner soon after his admission. He officiated as counsel in many of the important cases in his native city and elsewhere, and was private counsel for some of the most eminent lawyers and judges of Pennsylvania, and had care of many important trusts. He was also a distinguished writer on various topics in the line of his profession. In 1852, he published his "Practical Treatise on the Law of Covenants for Title," of which four editions have since been published, and has been cited as an authority in all parts of the Union and in England. This work has a high and enduring reputation among the really great books on the law. In 1853 he pub- lished the third American edition of Smith's "Law of Contracts," adding to it many able and learned notes. He also edited Joshua Williams' "The Law of Real Property" with elaborate notes; which has also gone through many editions, and has been used as a text book in many law schools and private offices in the United States. A lecture delivered by Mr. Rawle, in 1881, before the Law Dept. of the Univ. of Pa. on "Some Contrasts in the Growth of Pennsylvania and English Law," was published and at- tracted much attention both in this country and in England. In May, 1884, he delivered an oration before both Houses of Congress upon the occasion of the unveiling of the statue of Chief Justice John Marshall, in Washington ; and in June, 1885, he delivered an address before the Harvard Chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa Society on "The Case of the Educated Unemployed." In 1862, he enlisted in the "Emergency" Artillery Com- pany, commanded by Capt. Chapman Biddle, and was ordered to Harrisburg. Again in 1863, he went out as Quartermaster Sergeant of Landis's Battery, which formed part of command of Gen. Couch, and was engaged in the battle with Confederate cavalry at Carlisle, Pa. He was Vice-provost of the Law Academy of Philadelphia, 1865-1873, and Vice-chancellor of the Law Association of Philadelphia from 1880 to his death. He was director of Philadelphia Library Co. and member of American Philosophical Society, and of Board of Directors of City Trusts. D. April 19, 1889. He was twice m. : (first) Sept. 13, 1849, to Mary Binney Cadwalader, dau. of Judge John Cadwalader, and granddau. of Horace Binney. She d. May 26, 1861. He m. (second), Oct. 17, 1869, Emily Cadwalader, dau. of Gen. Thomas Cadwalader, of Trenton. N. J. By his first wife he had a dau. Mary Cadwalader Rawle, who m. Frederic Rhinelander Jones of N Y., and another dau. Edith, the wife of Louis Godfrey Rosseau, of Pittsburg. His only son, William, b. in 1855, d. in 1860. He was succeeded in the law business by his nephew, student and associate, William Brooke Rawle.
WILLIAM BROOKE RAWLE, eldest and only surviving son of Charles Wallace Brooke, by his wife Elizabeth, daughter of William and Mary Anna (Tilghman) Rawle, was born in Philadelphia, August 29, 1843. His early education was acquired in the best private schools in Philadelphia, and he entered University of Pennsylvania in 1859, graduating with the degree of B. A. in the class of 1863. Having in his senior year obtained leave of absence from the college authorities, he entered the United States Volunteer Army for service in the War of the
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Rebellion, and took his B. A. degree on July 3, 1863, while actually participating in the battle of Gettysburg. He entered the army as Second Lieutenant, Third Pennsylvania Cavalry, and served continuously in the Army of the Potomac from early in 1863 until after the close of the war, attaining the lineal rank of Captain, and being brevetted Major and Lieutenant Colonel, for gallant and meritorious services at the battle of Hatcher's Run, and in the campaign that terminated with the surrender of Lee at Appomattox Court House respectively. He was in numerous engagements during the war, taking an active part in all the arduous campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, after that of Chancellorsville. He returned to Philadelphia at the close of the war, in August, 1865, and took up the study of law. with his uncle William Henry Rawle, receiving the degree of M. A. at the University of Pennsylvania, July 3, 1866, and being admitted to the Philadelphia Bar, May 18, 1867. Shortly before the latter date he assumed by legal authority the name of William Brooke Rawle, in lieu of his baptismal name of William Rawle Brooke. He became associated in the practice of his profession with his preceptor and uncle, William Henry Rawle, continuing with him until the death of the latter in 1889, when he succeeded him as the head of the family law offices, which had been established in 1783, by his great-grand- father, William Rawle the elder. He and his cousins James and Francis Rawle are now the present representatives of a family which has been prominently identified with the affairs of the City of Philadelphia, for over two centuries. Col. Rawle is a Vice-President of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania; for many years was Treasurer of Law Association of Philadelphia, and is also a member of many patriotic and historical associations. He married, February 7, 1872, Elizabeth Norris, born December 19, 1841, daughter of Henry Pepper, of Philadelphia, by his wife, Sally Norris, daughter of Joseph Parker Norris, of "Fair Hill," by his wife, Elizabeth Hill Fox.
FRANCIS WILLIAM RAWLE, third surviving son of William and Sarah C. (Burge) Rawle, born in Philadelphia September 28, 1795, graduated at Uni- versity of Pennsylvania in 1812 with the degree of A. B., and received the degree of A. M. from the same institution in 1816. During the War of 1812-14 he served as Sergeant and Lieutenant in the Pennsylvania Regiment known as the "Wash- ington Guards." After taking his second course at the university he became a civil engineer, and was in the employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad in the earliest days of railroad construction. Later he was an ironmaster at Freedom Forge, Mifflin county, Pennsylvania. He served for some years as Lay Judge of the Courts of Clearfield county. In 1847 he returned to Philadelphia and became secretary of Equitable Fire Insurance Company. He retired from business in 1861 and moved to his country seat, "Fairfield", Lycoming county, one of the "Muncy Farms", where he passed most of the remainder of his life, and where he died October 27, 1881.
Francis William Rawle married, December 16, 1828, Louisa, daughter of Charles Hall, a distinguished member of the Bar at Sunbury, Northumberland county, Pennsylvania, by his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Coleman, the prominent ironmaster of Cornwall, Pennsylvania. She died at Williamsport, Pennsylvania, Easter Sunday, 1884.
Issue of Francis William and Louisa (Hall) Rawle :-
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Charles Rawle, b. at Sunbury, June 14, 1830, d. at South Bethlehem, Pa., on temporary visit there, Jan. 17, 1891; was educated at Univ. of Pa., and in 1859 located at "Fair- field," Lycoming county, Pa. He m. Nov. 18, 1868, Mary Jeanne, dau. of Oliver Wat- son, of Williamsport, and had issue :
James Rawle, b. Sept. 6, 1869; William Rawle, b. Oct. 10, 1871, d. March 3, 1873;
Juliet Rawle, b. April 4, 1874.
Henry Rawle, b. Aug. 21, 1833, at Freedom Forge, Mifflin county, Pa .; was some years a civil engineer under J. Edgar Thompson, in constructing the Pennsylvania Railroad ; became Principal Engineer of Western Division of Sunbury & Erie Railroad; in 1859, engaged in iron business at Sharon, Mercer county, Pa .; later established the Erie Rolling Mills, at Erie, Pa .; was Mayor of Erie, 1874-1876; was elected State Treasurer of Pennsylvania, in 1875, and served the three years term 1876-7-8; subsequently re- moved to Philadelphia, spending the last years of his life at his country residence at Villa Nova, and at "Fairfield," dying at Villa Nova, Dec. 7, 1899.
He m. (first), Dec. 20, 1860, Harriet G., dau. of Hon. Charles M. Reed, of Erie; she d. Oct. 23, 1869; and he m. (second) Encie (Maynard) Herdic; by his first wife he had issue :-
Alice Reed Rawle, b. Feb. 24, 1862; m. April 25, 1883, Henry Laussat Geyelin, of the Philadelphia Bar; they reside at "Harwick," Villa Nova, Pa .; and have issue :-
Henry Rawle Geyelin, b. May 12, 1884;
Marion Geyelin, b. Jan. 12, 1886;
Antony Laussat Geyelin, b. Oct. 17, 1889;
Alice Beatrice Geyelin, b. April 13, 1891;
Harriet Gertrude Reed Geyelin, b. Oct. 1, 1894;
Emile Camile Geyelin, b. Jan. 6, 1896;
Henry Laussat Geyelin, Jr., b. Oct. 20, 1898;
Estella Antonette Geyelin, b. July 18, 1901.
Marion Louisa Rawle, b. May 10, 1865; m. Thomas Patton, of New York, and they reside at Villa Nova, Pa.
William Rawle, b. Jan. 21, 1835, d. March 1846;
Emily Rawle, b. April 10, 1838, at Freedom Forge, Mifflin Co., Pa., m. June 27, 1861, Rev. Albra Wadleigh, then Rector of the Lutheran Church at Muncy, Pa., subsequently of Christ Church, Williamsport, Pa., and St. Luke's Church, Germantown, Philadelphia, where he d. May 25, 1873; they had issue :-
Francis Rawle Wadleigh ;
Edith Wadleigh :
Athula Blight Wadleigh;
Henry Rawle Wadleigh.
Ann Caroline Rawle, b. March 1840, d. July 1844;
James Rawle, b. at Lancaster, Pa., Nov. 15, 1842; graduated at Univ. of Pa., A. B., 1861, and A. M. 1864; was civil engineer in employ of Philadelphia & Erie Railroad Co., 1862-1870; removed to Philadelphia in 1871, and following year became member of firm of J. G. Brill & Co., manufacturers of street cars in that city; taking up his residence at "Castlefinn," Delaware county, Pa., near Bryn Mawr, where he has since resided; m. Nov. 29, 1871, Charlotte Collins dau. of Charles Collins Parker, M. D., and great-granddaughter of Zaccheus Collins, and also of Robert Coleman.
James Rawle was member of First Troop, Philadelphia City Cavalry, with rank of First Lieutenant, resigning after twelve years service; he became president in 1906 of the J. G. Brill Co., the largest concern in the world engaged in the manufacture of street cars ; he had issue :-
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