USA > Pennsylvania > Jefferson County > Commemorative biographical record of central Pennsylvania : including the counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion, Pt. 1 > Part 38
USA > Pennsylvania > Centre County > Commemorative biographical record of central Pennsylvania : including the counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion, Pt. 1 > Part 38
USA > Pennsylvania > Clarion County > Commemorative biographical record of central Pennsylvania : including the counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion, Pt. 1 > Part 38
USA > Pennsylvania > Clearfield County > Commemorative biographical record of central Pennsylvania : including the counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion, Pt. 1 > Part 38
Note: The text from this book was generated using artificial intelligence so there may be some errors. The full pages can be found on Archive.org (link on the Part 1 page).
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 | Part 11 | Part 12 | Part 13 | Part 14 | Part 15 | Part 16 | Part 17 | Part 18 | Part 19 | Part 20 | Part 21 | Part 22 | Part 23 | Part 24 | Part 25 | Part 26 | Part 27 | Part 28 | Part 29 | Part 30 | Part 31 | Part 32 | Part 33 | Part 34 | Part 35 | Part 36 | Part 37 | Part 38 | Part 39 | Part 40 | Part 41 | Part 42 | Part 43 | Part 44 | Part 45 | Part 46 | Part 47 | Part 48 | Part 49 | Part 50 | Part 51 | Part 52 | Part 53 | Part 54 | Part 55 | Part 56 | Part 57 | Part 58 | Part 59 | Part 60 | Part 61 | Part 62 | Part 63 | Part 64 | Part 65 | Part 66 | Part 67 | Part 68 | Part 69 | Part 70 | Part 71 | Part 72 | Part 73 | Part 74 | Part 75 | Part 76 | Part 77 | Part 78 | Part 79 | Part 80 | Part 81 | Part 82 | Part 83 | Part 84 | Part 85 | Part 86 | Part 87 | Part 88 | Part 89 | Part 90 | Part 91 | Part 92 | Part 93 | Part 94 | Part 95 | Part 96 | Part 97 | Part 98 | Part 99 | Part 100 | Part 101 | Part 102 | Part 103 | Part 104 | Part 105 | Part 106 | Part 107 | Part 108 | Part 109 | Part 110 | Part 111 | Part 112 | Part 113 | Part 114 | Part 115 | Part 116 | Part 117 | Part 118 | Part 119
180
COMMEMORATIVE BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.
and Elizabeth Johnston Boggs, was born Octo- ber 24, 1779, married William Wistar Miles, son of Col. Samuel Miles, of the Revolution, who owned the land upon which the town of Miles- burg is situated, Centre Furnace and all of Brush Valley in Centre county. William W. Miles died in 1808, leaving two sons, John (4) and William (4).
John (4) married his cousin, Mary Boggs, leaving no descendants; William married Mary Kephart; had numerous posterity about Tyrone and Kittanning, Pennsylvania. In 1814 Anna Boggs Miles was married (again) to John Mitchell, who was an iron-master of Centre county, after- ward a member of Congress, canal commis- sioner, and held many offices of profit and trust in Centre county. He first came to Centre county as a manager at the iron works of John Dunlop. In May, 1814, he was mar- ried, and then engaged in the mercantile busi- ness in Bellefonte with his brother David. In October, 1818, he was elected sheriff of Centre county, and as such was the executioner of James Monks, convicted of murder, a crime so unusual in those days that the trial and execu- tion attracted to the town a vast throng of people from all the surrounding counties. Mr. Mitchell was a surveyor and engineer of recognized abil- ity. In 1821 he laid out the Centre and Kish- acoquillas turnpike. In the year 1826 he made a survey for the State of the proposed canal routes between the Susquehanna and the Poto- mac rivers. In 1827 he was appointed engineer of the Erie extension from New Castle to Erie. In 1829 he was elected by the Legislature one of the canal commissioners, again appointed by Gov. Wolf in 1830. He had three children: David, the only son, was killed in the Mexican war. Martha married P. B. Kephart, and they had four sons: J. Matlock, killed in the Rebellion. William died recently. J. Miles and Harry survive; both are married, but have no descendants. Nancy Harris Mitchell was married to Dr. Joseph H. Dixon, of Pittsburgh, a highly esteemed and prominent physician, well known throughout Pennsylvania; he came of a family of noted physicians; was a son of John Dixon, of Cecil county, Md. He died March, 1897. His wife, who died several years previous, was almost as well known as her husband; her life being devoted to charity and the alleviation of suffering, she was beloved by all, and her death was deeply lamented. They had no chil- dren. Mary Boggs (G), daughter of Col. John and Elizabeth Johnston Boggs, was born No- vember 19. 1781. died June 14, 1809. Jane Boggs (7), daughter of Col. John and Eliza-
beth Johnston Boggs, was born March 13, 1784. and married John Royer, an iron-master of Huntingdon county, and a prominent politician; Mrs. Royer died at the residence of her son-in- law, Hon. Cyrus L. Pershing, in Johnstown, October 28, 1869. Dr. John Boggs (8), son of Col. John and Elizabeth Johnston Boggs, was born August 18, 1787, married a Miss Alli- son; one of their daughters married a Bishop de Schweintz, and lives in Bethlehem; one died young, and the eldest married a Mr. Wharton, of Philadelphia, who was an elder in the Presbyter- ian Church, and they had two sons, Allison and Johnston, who were Methodist ministers.
Ann Boggs (II), daughter of Andrew Boggs (I) and Miss Patton, married Joseph Lowry, son of Lazarus Lowry, who came from the North of Ireland and located at Donegal, Penn., in 1729. His (Joseph's) brother, Col. Alexander Lowry .. was an officer in the Revolution, whose grandson of the same name, Alexander, married Miss Margaret Speer, of Williamsburg, Penn., and re- `cently died in Butler, Penn., leaving seven sons and one daughter. Joseph Lowry was engaged in two French and Indian wars, his family twice. driven from their homes, and it burned to the ground; he afterward moved his family to May- town to educate their son, John G. Lowry; he- was placed in a classical school conducted by Rev. Colin McFarquhar. John G. went into the army to quell the "whiskey rebellion " in 1792: or '3; afterward accompanied his cousin, John Dunlop, to Centre county, and became a man- ager at his Iron Works, and later, in connection with Judge Huston, the administrator of John Dunlop. He was an elder of the Presbyterian Church almost from its organization in Bellefonte until the time he left the town, a year or two. before his death. He was appointed treasurer for several terms, and when the office was made elective, was the first to fill the position. His
first wife was Abigail, daughter of Richard Miles, who was a brother of Col. Samuel Miles; they had one child, Edward, who died when a young man. unmarried; his second wife was Rachel, widow of Capt. John Lightner; they moved to St. Louis, where Mr. Lowry died. (2) James, son of Andrew Boggs and Miss Patton, born - -; Andrew, son of Andrew Boggs and Miss Patton, born -; Mary, daughter of Andrew Boggs and Miss Patton, born --: Alexander. son of Andrew Boggsand Miss Patton, born -
He (Alexander) was an officer of the Revolution and was a captain in Col. Clark's command in Bertram Galbraith's battalion, and with the bat- talion during the celebrated " Flying Campaign " in New Jersey in 1776, was at the battles of
181
COMMEMORATIVE BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.
King's Bridge, Long Island, &c., on many occa- sions distinguishing himself for great bravery. The children of Col. James Dunlop (III) and Jane Boggs (II) are, viz. : William Dunlop (1), born Jan- uary 17, 1763, died unmarried. (IV) Andrew Dun- lop (2), born September 22, 1764, was admitted to the Bar of Franklin County in 1785, and was one of the attorneys admitted to practice at the first court held in Centre county in November, 1800. He represented Franklin county in the Legislature from 1796 to 1800. Andrew married Sarah Bella Chambers, daughter of Col. James Chambers, of Chambersburg (son of Benjamin Chambers, who founded the town), and Cather- ine Hamilton, aunt of Martha Hamilton Alrichs, mother of Jane Alrichs, who was the wife of Ovid F. Johnston, the distinguished Attorney-General of Pennsylvania; their children: Ovid F. Johns-, ton, prominent attorney in Philadelphia. Fannie A., widow of Hon. S. T. Shugert. Miss Hannah and Miss Martha. The children of Andrew and Sarah Bella Chambers Dunlop are as follows:
(V) James Dunlop (1) was born at Chambers- burg on the - day of -, 1795, and died on the 9th of April, 1856. He was married to Maria Ma- deria. He was an eminent lawyer; graduated in Dickinson College, Carlisle, in 1812; was admitted to the Bar in 1817; a member of the Senate in Franklin county about 1825. He was the com- piler of Dunlop's Digest of the Laws of Pennsyl- vania, and a Digest of the Laws of the United States. In 1838 he moved to Pittsburgh, and was a member of the firm of Dunlop & Maderia (George A. Maderia, his brother-in-law), proprie- tors of the celebrated Siemans Edge Tool Fac- tory. In 1855 he moved to Philadelphia; he was stricken with paralysis in Baltimore, and died there April 9, 1856; their children were as fol- lows: Sarah Bella and Helen. Sarah Bella mar- ried John A. Wilson, a Pittsburgh merchant, at one time very rich, and who afterward lived in Elizabeth, N. J., where Mr. Wilson died; they had four children: Tieman, Dunlop, Nellie (mar- ried to a Dr. French) and Sarah Bella. Helen, daughter of James and Maria (Maderia) Dunlop, was married to John Motter, of St. Joseph, Mo .. and had three children: Wilson, Dunlop, and Helen (who was married to W. D. Cook, of Pu- eblo, Colo.).
Jane Catherine Dunlop (2), daughter of An- drew (IV) and Sarah Bella Chambers Dunlop, was married to Col. Casper Willis Weaver, of Weav- erton, Md .; she was quite an authoress, and con- tributed many scientific articles worthy of publi- cation in the Department. reports issued by the U. S. Government. They had nine children: Adam, Catherine Willis (who married William
Oliver Collins), Charlotte Dunlop (who married Dr. Carlton Clare), Sarah Bella, Elizabeth, An- drew Dunlop, Patrick Henry, Mary Josephine and Virginia Hadessa. Charlotte Rhuhannah (3), daughter of Andrew (IV) and Sarah Bella Cham- bers Dunlop, was married to Charles S. Clark- son, a major in the Mexican war, and afterward a colonel. They had six children: John (1) Minor, who was married to , and by a second wife, Mrs. Bettie had Catherine (2), unmarried. James Dunlop Clarkson (3), married to Ella Scott. David (4), unmarried, resides in St. Louis. Jo- sephine (5), married a Mr. Clarkson; and Marga- ret (6), unmarried.
Josephine (4), daughter of Andrew (IV), and Sarah Bella Chambers Dunlop, married Col. James Ludlow, son of Israel Ludlow, one of the founders of Cincinnati. They resided at Lud- low Station (a military post during the Indian wars). The fine large estate and hospitable sub- urban home was the resort of all the family connec- tion. They had eight children: (1) James Dunlop Ludlow was married to Susie ,and in 1864
lived near Peoria, Ill. (2) Charlotte mar- ried Charles Jones; they had a daughter, and a son, Ludlow, who in 1864 was a practicing attor- ney in Cincinnati. (3) Saraha Bell was married November 6, 1846, at Mr. Justice McLean's, Fourth street, Cincinnati, by Rt. Rev. C. P. McIl- vaine, to Salmon P. Chase, a prominent lawyer, statesman, diplomat, Judge of the United States Court. and a member of President Lincoln's cab- inet. Their children were: Jenette Ralston Chase, born September 17, 1847, a lady whose delightful letters and literary genius are known under the nom de plume of . Mrs. Hoyt". Jos- ephine Ludlow Chase, born July 3. 1849, and Kate Chase, who was married to Gov. Sprague, of Rhode Island. (4) Catherine (Ludlow) mar- ried Jacob Baker; her second husband was Lewis Whiteman, and now resides at Ludlow Station, which she has purchased. (5) Benj. C. was married to Fanny Jones; he was a physi- ian of high standing in the Union army during the Rebellion, after which he resumed his practice in Cincinnati. (6) Josephine was unmarried, and died in 1866. (7) Rhuhannah married Randall Hunt, and resides in New Orleans; and (8) Israel was an officer, also, in the Union army, and now practicing law in Cincinnati. Sarah Bella (5), daughter of Andrew (IV) and Sarah Bella Cham- bers Dunlop, married (first) Hon. Jeptha D. Gar- rard, of Kentucky, and (second) Hon. John Mc- Lean, of Ohio. postmaster-general and Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court. Hadessa (6), daugh- ter of Andrew (IV) and Sarah Bella Chambers Dunlop.
182
COMMEMORATIVE BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.
HARRIS.
(IV) Ann Dunlop (3), daughter of Col. James and Jane Boggs, was born March 15, 1768; was married June 15, 1790, to James Harris, a direct descendant of EDWARD HARRIS, of Scotland, who abandoned his large estates, which were confis- cated (and never recovered) in consequence of the persecution of the Covenanters in the reign of Charles II, or his successor, James II (1660 to 1689), and settled in the County Donegal, near Rapho, in Ireland, his brother Charles accom- panying him and receiving like treatment.
Edward Harris (1) was married to Flora Doug- lass, of the famous family of that name who re- sided near the borders of England. Their chil- dren were Edward, Robert and James. Edward (II), son of Edward (I), married and had children: Robert, William and Mary. Robert (II), son of Edward (I), married Dorothy Wiley, and had children: John, William, James, Margaret, Thomas, Samuel, Robert and Charles. James (II), son of Edward (I), married Mary Simpson, and had children: William, Ann and James, and' by a second marriage (with Janet McClure) had a son, John. William (III), son of James and Mary Simpson, married Catharine Wilson, and emi- grated from Ireland to the Swatara, below Har- risburg (Donegal). Their children were: James, John, William, Sarah, Mary and Robert. Ann (III), daughter of James and Mary Simpson, mar- ried David Caldwell, who emigrated to Pennsyl- vania and then moved to Carolina, and had a family of children. After the death of David Caldwell she married Robert Harris, son of Rob- ert (II) and Dorothy Wiley. James (III), son of James and Mary Simpson, never married. He was a surveyor, and lived with his half-brother John, at Mifflintown, where he died September 8, 1804, and was buried in the Presbyterian graveyard. He was appointed deputy surveyor for part of Cumberland county on April 19, 1785. and his name is to be found among many of the old surveys.
John (III), son of James and Janet McClure, was born in Ireland in 1723. immigrated to this country in 1752, locating on the Swatara (Done- gal). He was first married to Jane Poen, who died without issue. His second wife was a cousin, Jean Harris, daughter of John Grizzele Steel (son of Robert), and she died January 11, 1807. aged eighty-three, leaving the following children: Jane, James, William, Grizzele, Margaret and Ann. .. Donegal" was settled by Scotch-Irish Presbyterians, nearly all of whom occupied promi- nent positions in Colonial times. and the records of the Revolutionary war, and that of 1812, fully establish the fact of their purest patriotism and
love of country. Every soldier and officer of the Third Battalion was from this place, John Harris early taking an influential part. He was one of the leading spirits at the meeting at Carlisle July 12, 1774, to express sympathy for the oppressed at Boston, and adopt measures for their relief. He was a member of the Provincial Conference which met at Carpenters Hall June 28, 1776, and of the subsequent Convention July 15, 1776. He was appointed sub-lieutenant of Cumberland county March 12, 1777. From 1778 to 1781 he served as a member of the General Assembly. He was one of the commissioners who met at New Haven, Conn., in November, 1777, to regu- late the price of commodities in the States. The Act for the gradual abolition of slavery in Penn- sylvania received his support, although himself a slave owner. He was commissioned a Justice of -the Peace on 6th of February, 1779. In 1790 he laid out the town of Mifflin, Juniata county, upon his estate, which comprised 375 acres, and with characteristic forethought and consideration reserved a portion for public use, now occupied by the court house, Presbyterian and Lutheran churches, cemetery, &c. ; he died there February 28, 1794, and was buried in the Presbyterian burying grounds there. (IV) Jane. daughter of John and Jean Harris, married James Patterson. son of Capt. James Patterson, who settled at Mex- ico, Penn .. at a very early date, and had a warrant for 407 acres of land dated February 4. 1755. be- ing the day after the land office opened for the sale of lands west of the Kittatinny Mountains. This land he had surveyed on the 29th of the same month, and it is the first land patented within the limits of the present county. They had children: John and William, of whom, Will- iam married Mary Riddle, whose son Riddle Pat- terson is the father of William H. Patterson, su- perintendent of public grounds at Harrisburg (1878). Grizzelle (IV), daughter of John and Jean Harris, married James Knox, Esq., a prominent citizen of Mifflintown, a J. P. and a merchant from 1794. Their children were Thomas, John, Maria, Jane and Hannah. All moved to the West. William (IV), son of John and Jean Harris, died unmarried April 20, 1807, aged forty-eight years; he was a surveyor. Margaret (IV), daughter of John and Jean Harris, married John Stewart, Esq., a justice in Tuscarora. Ann (IV), daughter of John and Jean Harris, married Samuel Bryson. Esq., formerly a distinguished citizen of Mifflin- town, who had served five years in the army dur- ing the Revolutionary war, was wounded at Ger- mantown and as County Lieutenant refused to commission two colonels elected by the regi- ments, which so incensed the people that on his
.
.
183
COMMEMORATIVE BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.
being appointed judge, a small army marched to Lewistown to drag him from the Bench and force him to resign. The effort did not succeed, but there was great excitement and it was on the verge of serious trouble and bloodshed. Their children were James, Samuel, Polly and Jane (Mrs. Ann B. died October 11, 1831).
JAMES HARRIS (IV), son of John and Jean Harris, was born on the Swatara in 1755; with ample means and access to the extensive library of his father, his early education was thorough. He adopted the occupation of a civil engineer and April 19, 1785, was appointed deputy sur- veyor of Cumberland county, and on November 19, 1789, for all of Mifflin county. In Septem- ber, 1787, he laid out the road from Frankstown to the Conemaugh river. He was married on June 15, 1790, to Ann, daughter of Col. Dun- lop; he moved to Spring creek in 1795 (the old home known as "Willow Bank "), and in that year, in connection with his father-in-law, laid out the town of Bellefonte upon their own prop- erty, and to their generous appreciation of the" future needs of the town much is due. First donating the beautiful spring from which the town derives its name, the ground for the court house, jail and public buildings, cemetery, Pres- byterian church, parsonage and academy. They then appropriated one-half of all the proceeds from the sale of not only the town lots but of out lots, covering a considerable portion of their adjoining property, to the erection of the public buildings and academy, and for an endowment of the latter. Accurate land books of sales made. and receipts of the commissioners of the county and trustees of the academy for the proceeds to which each were entitled, are still in the possession of the family. James Harris was also a State Sen- ator from Mifflin county, and the first postmaster of Bellefonte. After the erection of the county he was State Senator from the District, from 1800 to 1808. From 1789 his name is connected with all the land titles of Centre county, and his acquaintance with all the lands from the west branch of the Susquehanna to the Conemnaugh, afforded the large Eastern land owners the only means of information in relation to their property in that region. He was an intimate friend and relation, by marriage, of Governor William Find- lay; his correspondence with him in relation to "Frontier Defence " will be found in Pennsyl- vania Archives Vol. IV, 710. Mr. Harris was also largely engaged in milling operations and other business enterprises in Bellefonte, and is justly regarded as one of the fathers of the place; he died there December 2, 1828, aged 71 years. His wife (née Ann Dunlop) who survived him,
died in Bellefonte, April 8, 1844, aged 77 years. She was a woman of more than ordinary mind and cultivation. Her taste for metaphysical reasoning led the ablest theologians of her day to seek her society, and she was the author of a book entitled " The Alphabet of Thought," that was regarded by all as a work of great merit, elucidat- ing principles requiring much study and great research. The children of James and Ann Dunlop Harris were: (V) John (1) was a practicing physi- cian for some years, and afterwards engaged in the wholesale drug business in Philadelphia, and im- porters under the firm name of Harris, Hale & Co. He was married first to Eliza Hoge, a niece of Judge Walker, his second wife being Miss Ellen Orbison, of Huntingdon, Penn., who acquired such celebrity during the Rebellion in the . organization of help, collection and distribution - of supplies and delicacies for the Pennsylvania soldiers in home and field hospitals. She is now residing in Vienna, where Dr. Harris died while serving as U. S. consul. Dr. Harris had no chil- dren.
(V) Jane (2), daughter of James and Ann Dun- lop Harris, was married February 28, 1811, to REV. JAMES LINN, who died in Bellefonte February 23, 1868, after a pastorate of 58 years. We copy the following from Linn's History of Centre county: "James Linn was .born in Sherman's Valley, in Cumberland Co., Penn., September 4, 1783, and was one of seven children. His grandfather came over from Scot- land in the early part of the last century, and was of solid Presbyterian stock. His father, John Linn, was born in Adams county, Pa., in the year 1749, was graduated at Princeton College in 1773, studied theology with Rev. Robert Cooper, and during his entire ministerial life, including a term of nearly forty years, was settled as the pastor of Centre Church, Sherman's Valley. He died in 1820 in his 71st year. He was married to Mary Gettys, daughter of the founder of Gettysburg. Mr. Linn was graduated in Dickinson College in 1805, and studied theology with Rev. Joshua Williams at Newville. He was licensed to preach the Gospel September 27, ISOS, by the Presby- tery of Carlisle. He himself considered it an honor of no small measure to have been licensed by such a body of ministers as then composed that Presbytery-a noble band of venerable men and men of talent. In the spring of 1809 he visited the congregations of Spruce Creek and Sinking Valley, now in the bounds of Huntingdon Presbytery. From there he shortly after came to Bellefonte. The Presbyterian Church in this place had just been left vacant by the removing of Rev. Henry R. Wilson to Carlisle. His
184
COMMEMORATIVE BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.
preaching here and at Lick Run for a few Sab- 'baths resulted in unanimous calls from both Churches, each for one half of his time. The or- dination and installation took place April 17th, 1810, in the court house, which was then used as the place of worship. In this service the Rev. Mr. Coulter preached the sermon, and the Rev. Mr. Grier presided and gave the charge to the pastor. In 1839, the Bellefonte Church wishing to secure his undivided labors, he was released from the Lick Run charge, and by an unanimous vote was chosen a second time as pastor in Belle- fonte. In this relation he continued to the day of his death. In October of the year 1859, which marked a half century in his pastorate, the Pres- bytery of Huntingdon celebrated the occasion by special exercises of great interest, holding their fall. meeting in Bellefonte for this purpose. Shortly after this his strength began perceptibly to fail to such an extent that it was decided to relieve him from regular labors by calling a co- pastor. In the spring of 1861 the Rev. J. H. Barnard was called to the co-pastorate, and re- mained until 1866, and was succeeded by the 'Rev. Alfred Yeornans in December of the same year ". Dr. Linn's wife Jane (nec Harris) died August 14, 1822; he (again) married. April 15, 1829, Miss Isabella Henderson.
The children of Rev. James Linn by his first wife were: (VI) Claudius B. Linn (1), of Philadel- phia, who was engaged in the wholesale drug busi- ness, and was married to a Mrs. Baldwin, a widow with two children, Sue Baldwin, unmarried, and William Baldwin, married to a daughter of John A. Wilson, and at present superintendent of the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago railroad, re- siding at Fort Wayne. Claudius B. Linn had two children, a son, Lewis, and a daughter, Carrie, married to Dr. Carl Siler, has several children. James Harris Linn (2) was an iron- master. For a short time engaged in that busi- ness in East Tennessee, afterward at Howard Iron Works, in Centre county, and for the last forty years of his life was a member of the well- known firm of McCoy & Liun, of Milesburg Iron Works, at which place he died April 6, 1876. He was married September 15, 1843. to Harriet Stewart (daughter of Robert T. Stewart), who died July 16, 1895. They had no children.
(VI) Hon. Samuel Linn (3) was a leading at- torney of Centre connty, enjoyed a large general practice for many years, and was the foremost land lawyer in this part of the State, where the con- flicting titles and interfering warrants were the subject of litigation involving difficult legal ques- tions, and there were few questions of this na- ture in the surrounding counties in which he was
not employed. He was elected President Judge of this District, then composed of Clearfield, Centre and Clinton counties. He was a most eloquent advocate, as a judge clear, explicit, conscientious and just, but owing to his dislike for criminal jurisprudence (which the position included), and which' he avoided . when at the Bar, unless duty clearly pointed to the advocacy or de- fense in extreme cases involving the good order of society or malicious persecution, he resigned the judgeship in May, 1868, and returned to the practice. He was an author of legal works, and his "Analytical Digest" of adjudged and paral- lel cases was a work involving immense labor and of incalculable value to the profession. Some years after his retirement from the Bench he formed a partnership in the practice of law with Hon. William H. Armstrong, of Williamsport, and went there to live, where he died. Socially, he was highly esteemed; few persons had the fund of anecdotes, or the happy faculty of relat- ing them. He was an elder in the Presbyterian " Church, and a representative of the same in all the high courts. He was born on the 20th of February, 1820, and married on the first of De- cember, 1847, to Miss Augusta Moore, of Car- liste, Penn. They had seven children: James (1) died when a young man; Mary (2) married a Mr. Hemingway, and resides in New Jersey; Harry (3) died recently; Claudius (4); Anna (5), married to Dr. Cheney, resides in Williams- port; Blanche (6); Herbert (7).
Need help finding more records? Try our genealogical records directory which has more than 1 million sources to help you more easily locate the available records.