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" David Couch was accused of having slandered one of his neighbors. In ordinary cases at the present time, a suit of this kind continues for several years before its final determination. He was brought at once before a court specially convened for that purpose, the proof was conclu- sive against him, and he was sentenced to receive a certain number of stripes with an oak sprout cut for the occasion. The sentence was immediately put into execution, and with the delay of scarcely an hour from the commencement, he went home if not a better, a better whipped man than he came."*
THE BAR OF BRADFORD COUNTY.
The bar of Bradford has been noted from the first organ- ization of the courts of the county in 1813 to the present, for ability and. worth. In its early history there may have been characters that have stood out more prominently than now, but they may have been developed by the circum- stances and requirements of their day, which, lacking in the present more prosaic times, leaves just as able men perhaps in comparative obscurity. But the past and pres- ent of Bradford's roll of attorneys is an honorable one. They have borne the good name of Bradford into the na- tional and State councils, and given it a bright radiance among the honored names of the Union. In the senate and the lower house of congress, in the halls of the State, on its supreme bench, and on the battle-fields of the Union, in defense of the integrity of the nation, Bradford has won imperishable renown through the statesmanship, erudi- tion, and indomitable bravery and will of her sons. Her Wilmot has carried her fame to the ends of the earth, in that glorious proviso for freedom, " Neither slavery nor in- voluntary servitude shall exist in any of said territories, t except for crime, whereof the party shall be duly convicted."
Her Purple has carried the name of the county to the supreme benchi of the great prairie State (Illinois) ; her Booth dispenses justice, fair and impartial, from the bench of the chief city of the great northwest, that sits a queen at the head of the great lakes. Mercur adorns the supreme bench of the great Keystone commonwealth, where Lewis sat before him; while Herrick, Williston, Bullock have presided with honor over the courts of their own district, a seat now as worthily filled by Morrow. Overton repre- sents an intelligent constituency, with credit to himself and honor to them, in congress, in the seat long held by the veteran Wilmot. On the field of war the bar of Bradford has been none the less distinguished. Watkins, learned,
affable, courteous, and brave, sealed his devotion to his country with his life's blood ; Madill bears about his person honorable scars, received in her service; Overton gained unfading laurels in the defense of the axiom "all men are created free and equal ;" McKean, Carnochan, and others for a time doffed the gown of the barrister for the blouse of the soldier, laid down the brief to solve more knotted intricacies with the sword, and aided in placing the honor of their country on high in the annals of patriotism. Others, less publicly prominent, have added largely to the lustre of the bar in times past, among them Baldwin, Scott, Kinney, Evans, Overton (senior), Patton, Strong, Cash, Adams, Barstow, Watkins, Elwell, Ward, Patrick, Sander- son, and others of equal merit.
THE BAR-PAST AND PRESENT.
William Prentice, who was admitted to the bar in Lu- zerne Co., Pa., at the November session of the common pleas in 1799, at the age of thirty-four years, was the first full-fledged attorney in what is now Bradford County.
1813-14 .- These attorneys, given under this date, were in attendance on the first terms of the common pleas held in those years, and signed an agreement as to the rules of pleading: Edward Herrick* (afterwards president judge of the district), Ethan Baldwin,* Charles Catlin, Simon Kin- ney,* C. F. Welles .*
1816 .- Edward Overton, not in practice.
1818 .- William Patton,* Horace Williston* (president judge of district), Robert Welles, Darins Bullock* (presi- dent judge of district).
1819 .- David Cash .*
1823 .- D. F. Barstow .*
1824 .- J. C. Adams .*
1826 .- Alpheus Ingham, Rinaldo D. Parker (in West Virginia).
1828 .- Wm. Watkins,* Ellis Lewis* (judge of supreme court, Pa.).
1830 .- E. W. Baird,* Hiram Payne.
1832 .- William Elwell (president judge 26th district, Pa.), James T. Hale* (president judge 25th district, Pa. ; M. C., 1859-64), Mason Hulett, Stephen Pierce.
1833 .- Norman H. Purple (justice supreme court, Illi- nois), Hiram Thomas.
1834 .- David Wilmot* (M. C .; U. S. Senator ; judge court claims U. S.).
1835 .- Silas Noble.
1837 .- Lyman E. De Wolf (Chicago), C. L. Ward,*
L. P. Williston, territorial judge, U. S.
1838 .- H. W. Patrick.t
1839 .- Julius R. Barstow,* Roswell C. Ingalls.
1840 .- Edward Elwell, George Sanderson, Hutchins T. Wilcox.
1841 .- St. John Goodrich, James Holiday, E. W. Hazard, S. G. Patrick, Wilson Scott.
1842 .- H. C. Baird,; H. C. Kelly, L. H. Pierce, El- hanan Smith.t
1843 .- Ulysses Mercur (justice supreme court, Pa.).
1844 .- Henry Booth (judge circuit court, Cook Co.,
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Ill., Chicago), O. H. P. Kinney, Morris S. Wattles ( judge in Wisconsin), Francis Smith, * Julius Sherwood,* James E. Pierce, Thomas Smead, Thomas Welles.
1845 .- Charles Kellum (Sycamore, De Kalb Co., Ill., State senator), Wm. G. Scott, John E. Canfield .*
1846 .- S. F. Wilson ( additional judge in Tioga, Potter, and MeKcan district).
1847 .- Hugh Tyler,* Wm. H. Peck,* James II. Welles, George O. Welles, Edwin Hurlbut, Galusha A. Grow (M. C.).
1848 .- W. R. De Witt, N. P. Case, Eli B. Parsons, + Nathan C. Elsbree, ; N. Miller Stephens, Geo. R. Barker.
1851 .- James Macfarlane (on geological survey of Pennsylvania), Henry J. Madillf (Col. 141st Pa. Vols. ; major-general by brevet), Joseph B. Reeve, ; Marvin E. Mills.
1853 .- Milton H. Case, Isaac N. Evans, t Mark H. Greenman,* Miles F. Kinney,* Harvey McAlpin,* D. Alanson Overton, f Paul D. Morrow (president judge of district), Guy H. Watkins* (killed before Petersburg, Va.), Ralph Tozer.
1855 .- A. Chauncey Lyman,* Henry B. Mckean.
1857 .- Geo. De La Montanye,* Jas. J. Siebeneck.
1858 .- Edward Overton, Jr.f (M. C., 1877-78; lieut .- col. 50th Pa. Vols.).
1859 .- H. N. Williams.t
1860 .- Thomas J. Ingham (president judge of Sullivan and Wyoming district, Pa. ), James Wood, ; Benj. M. Peck (prothonotary ).
1861 .- Thomas Ryan (M. C. from Kansas, 1877-78), Edw. T. Elliott (not in practice), Charles Mercur (not in practice), Wm. T. Daviest (State senate), Warner H. Car- nochan, f F. G. Coburn .*
1862 .- Delos Rockwell, ; Henry Keeler.
1863 .- Henry Peet,* Jacob De Witt,* John W. Mix.t
1864 .- Wm. A. Peck, S. R. Payne, ; John N. Califf.t 1865 .- Edward Herrick, Jr.
1868 .- F. G. Patrick, W. Hersey Watkins (editor in Kansas).
1869 .- J. H. Shaw,; Wm. H. Thompson.t
1870 .- William Foyle, ; D. D. Fassett, Hiram C. Johns, Joseph R. Harris (St. Louis, Mo.), D. C. De Witt.t
1871 .- E. C. Gridley, ; H. F. Maynard.t
1872 .- Judson W. Stone, f Henry Streeter, + C. L. Lamb, J. S. Tozer, Isaiah McPherson, f D. W. Smith.
1873 .- J. Ferris Shoemaker, ; P. C. J. De Angelis, S. W. Little.t
1874 .- Adelbert C. Fanning, ; John F. Sanderson, ; W. E. Chilson, t Frank F. Drake (district attorney for Sullivan county, Pa.).
1875 .- J. Andrew Wilt, f Rodney A. Mercur, ; Wm. Maxwell,t Gordon F. Mason, t Llewellyn Elsbree, ; Elisha L. Hillis, t Wm. Little, ; George D. Stroud, ; E. F. Goff,t O. D. Kinney. t
1876 .- E. J. Angle.t
1877 .- L. M. Hall,; Wm. J. Young,; Augustus Red- field, ; Thomas E. Myer, ; Arthur Head, ; Charles M. Hall .; 1878 .- Albert Morgan.t
The members of the judiciary will be found in the civil list.
THIE BAR ASSOCIATION OF BRADFORD COUNTY.
The Bar Association of Bradford County was organized December 17, 1877, at a meeting at which Col. Elhanan Smith was chairman and John F. Sanderson was secretary. A constitution was adopted, and at an adjourned meeting, held January 7, 1878, a code of by-laws was also adopted. At the annual meeting, held February 4, the following officers were elected for the ensuing year : President. Col. Elhanan Smith ; Vice-President, Gen. H. J. Madill ; Sec- retary, John F. Sanderson ; Treasurer, Henry Streeter. The constitution declares the object of the association to be (1) the instruction and improvement of its members, (2) promotion of good feeling and brotherly intercourse, and the maintenance of the professional character, and (3) the formation of a library. Any member of the bar of this or any other county is eligible to membership. The regular meetings of the association are held on the first Monday evening of each month, at which papers on legal subjects are read, or legal questions are discussed, and a person appointed to write an opinion on the question discussed, which opinion is presented to the next regular meeting, for approval or rejection, as it may appear to agree or disagree with the individual opinions of the members.
On the night of the regular meeting, March 4, 1878, last prior to this writing, there were twenty-six members who had subscribed the constitution, the name of the veteran Edward Overton, Sr., leading the list.
MEDICAL.
BRADFORD COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY.
The first effort to organize the medical profession of Bradford County was made August, 1847, when about twenty of the prominent physicians of the county met in the court-house, and elected Drs. Samuel Huston president, and Alexander Madill secretary. Two or three meetings were held in Towanda, and one was appointed for Troy. Dr. Madill and Dr. Bliss went to Troy, but no one else, and this was the last meeting of the society.
The present medical society was organized Sept. 20, 1849, at the Ward House, in Towanda, with nine members. The object of the society was declared to be the advance- ment of medical knowledge, the elevation of professional character, the protection of the interests of its members, the cultivation and extension of medical science, and the pro- motion of all measures adapted to the relief of the suffering and to improve the health and protect the lives of the com- munity.
Qualification for membership requires that the applicant be either a graduate of some medical college in good stand- ing, or has license to practice from some medical board rec- ognized by the State medical society, or has been engaged in honorable practice for fifteen years, and sustains a good moral character.
The officers of the society consist of a president, four vice-presidents, two secretaries, a treasurer, and five censors, who are elected by ballot, and hold office for one year.
The constitution and by-laws are in accordance with the State medical society and the American medical associa-
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tion, to both of which it is subordinate, and its code of ethics is the same as that adopted by the last-named body.
The by-laws require that two members be appointed to read essays at each meeting ; each member to report a case connected with medicine at each meeting, or, at the May meeting, instead of a case he can report a synopsis of his practice during the year. Clinics are also held at meetings of the society, which are in charge of a physician and sur- geon appointed for that purpose. During the twenty-nine years of its history, many interesting cases, brought before the society, have received the benefit of its advice ; able and instructive essays have been read, and a large number of important cases have been reported.
The society have endeavored to combine in their meetings social pleasures with professional labors, and frequently for this purpose are invited with their wives and daughters to dine in the family of some one of their number. These social gatherings have not only awakened new interest in the members, but have been the means by which the families of physicians can form pleasant acquaintances.
The organization has been eminently successful. It has had on its roll of members nearly all the regular practition- ers in the county. The society has sent delegates annually to the medical society of Pennsylvania, and has frequently been represented in the American medical association. With but few exceptions it has made annual sanitary reports to the State society. In 1862, one of its members (Dr. Hor- ton) was chosen president of the State society. A report on the geology of the State, with a map, was made in 1858, and one on hydrography and drainage ; the former by Dr. Hor- ton, and the latter by Dr. Mason. They were the first papers on these subjects ever published in the county. The influence of the society has been salutary to the profession, and consequently beneficial to the public. It has stimu- lated the members of the profession to reach higher attain- ments in medical science, exposed quackery, and has ele- vated the standard of the profession both scientifically and morally.
The movement for the foundation of the historical society of Bradford County originated in a call issued by a committee of the society for a meeting of the citizens for that purpose. Dr. Mason at the time of his death was president of the his- torical society, and Dr. Horton has since held the same posi- tion. There have been connected with the society fifty- eight physicians, of whom eighteen are dead, besides two honorary members,-Dr. Darius Bullock, of Smithfield, and Granville Sharp Patterson, of Athens, professor of anatomy in the medical department of the University of New York ; both are now dead. The present membership is twenty-five, of whom Dr. P. A. Quick, of Wilmot, is president ; Drs. T. B. Johnson and E. D. Payne, of To- wanda, are the secretaries.
Names and Residences of Members of Bradford County Medical Society .- Geo. F. Horton, Terrytown ; John E. Ingham,* Wysox ; Thesus Barnes,* Le Raysville ; E. H. Mason,* Towanda; C. T. Bliss, Canton ; Daniel Holmes,* Canton ; A. R. Axtell, Troy ; T. F. Meadill (expelled), Wysox ; Geo. HI. Morgan,* Wysox ; Chas. R. Ladd,* To-
wanda ; E. P. Allen, Athens ; Alfred Parsons,* Troy ; Ed- ward Mills, Ulster ; William L. Claggett, Standing Stone ; Benjamin De Witt,* Le Raysville ; Horace P. Moody,* Frenchtown ; Volney Homet, Camptown; E. G. Tracey, Troy ; H. S. Cooper, Monroeton ; Hiram Rice,* Rome ; R. C. Rockwell,* Troy ; C. M. Turner,* Towanda; H. L. Knapp, Windham ; G. P. Tracy, Burlington ; L. de la Mon- tanye, Towanda; Gustavus Conklin, Orwell ; T. H. Morse,* Canton ; E. A. Everett, Burlington ; G. W. McKee, Wind- ham Centre; A. J. Cole, Mansfield (Tioga Co.); J. D. Underwood, Smithfield; Stephen L. Chilson,* Troy ; H. Monte Moody, Smithfield; Rees Davis, Le Raysville ; II. O. Ely, Towanda ; Benjamin Moody, Wyalusing ; Charles P. Godfrey, Wyalusing; C. S. Dusenberry, Le Raysville ; C. B. Knapp, Stevensville; R. H. Ely, Burlington ; J. E. Rockwell,* Troy; D. N. Newton, Towanda ; W. C. Hull, Mouroeton ; Freman Fairchild, Dushore; L. A. Jones, Terrytown ; William Nice, Rome; T. B. Johnson, To- wanda ; J. M. Barrett, Orwell Hill; P. A. Quick, Sugar Run ; E. D. Payne, Towanda; J. W. Lyman, Towanda ; S. M. Woodburn, Towanda; Nathaniel Smith,* South Creek ; G. W. Russel,* Ulster ; Charles Drake,* Granville; O. H. Rockwell, Monroeton.
Honorary Members .- Prof. Granville Sharp Patterson,* Athens ; Dr. Darius Bullock,* Smithfield.
Dr. Stephen Hopkins, the first resident physician at Tioga Point, was born in Morris Co., N. J., Sept. 3, 1766. He was a son of William Hopkins, who was born near Provi- dence, R. I., in the year 1726, and removed to New Jersey in 1756. Stephen studied medicine in Morris county, and practiced some years before coming here. He married there, April 3, 1788, a daughter of Colonel Eleazer Lindsley, who, in 1789, purchased of Phelps and Gorham a township of land in their purchase, which is now known as Lindsley- town, Steuben Co. In the summer of 1790, Colonel Linds- ley, with his sons, daughters, and others, to the number of over fifty, started for their new home. They halted at Tioga, and, there being no physician here, Dr. Hopkins concluded to remain. His practice speedily became exten sive, and he was frequently called as far as Wilkes-Barre to the south, and Palmyra to the north. His first purchase of land here was May 24, 1791, when Captain Ira Stephens conveyed to him village lot No. 38, being the third lot south of the public square on the east side of the street, on which, in 1795, the doctor built the first frame house erected in Athens. In 1796 and 1798 he purchased lots 45 and 46, some distance north of the square, and in the summer of 1800 (according to the late Captain John Snell, who was the builder) he erected his large house, which is still standing, just north of the Episcopal church. In ad- dition to practicing medicine, the doctor was a mer- chant and an inn-keeper, although his name does not appear among those licensed by the courts. He was fre- quently elected supervisor of the town of Athens, trustee of public lands, etc. He was the first Senior Warden of Rural Amity lodge, No. 70, named as such in the warrant ; was one of the trustees named in the acts of the legislature incorporating the academy, the Presbyterian church, the company for erecting the bridge over the Tioga river, etc. He died, without previous illness, March 29,
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1841. His wife, Jemima Lindsley, was born in Morris Co., N. J., June 28, 1772, and died Aug. 16, 1830. Their children were Minerva, born June 15, 1789, married Wal- ter Herrick, Nov. 30, 1805, and died at Flemingville, N. Y., Nov. 21, 1861 ; Celestia, born March 26, 1792, mar- ried, Nov. 5, 1810, Edward Herrick, and died at Athens, Aug. 28, 1830 ; Eliza, born Oct. 7, 1794, married, June 25, 1812, to Dr. Thomas T. Huston, and died at Athens, July 17, 1856 ; Charles Lindsley, born Nov. 18, 1796, married Amanda Shepard (daughter of John Shepard), Dec. 31, 1817, and died March 31, 1873; Phoebe Maria, born Jan. 27, 1798, married, Oct. 18, 1825, to Rev. James Williamson, and died at Milton, Pa., Dee. 6, 1844. The children all left posterity yet known in the valley.
Dr. Amos Prentice* was also among the early physicians. He removed with his family from New London, Conn., to Bradford County, and settled in Athens township, in 1797. A house was built for him on the hill near Cayuta ereek, and a drug-store was eonneeted with it. He was one of the sufferers in New London at the time that city was burned by Arnold, the traitor, in 1781, where he practiced his pro- fession for several years. Mrs. Prentice, a very aecom- plished woman, was the daughter of Rev. Mr. Owen, of Groton, a friend and contemporary of President Edwards. Dr. Prentice practiced medicine in this county several years. He died suddenly, July 19, 1805, mueh beloved and lamented. Mrs. Prentice died Dee. 7, 1815, aged seventy-seven years. In addition to the practice of medi- eine, Mr. Prentice was engaged for a time in teaching sehool. Of his children, William was a lawyer, and died suddenly at the home of his father, in Milltown, Oct. 6, 1806.
Of the children of Dr. Prentice, one was William, the lawyer, who died young, another a physician at Sag Har- bor, the third a tanner, who lived at Milltown ; one daughter married Dan Elwell, the second married John Spaulding, once sheriff of Bradford County, the third married J. F. Satterlee, a merchant, first at Milltown, afterwards at Athens.
He was succeeded by Dr. Spring, who married the widow Grant, who was sister to John Shepard. He had a large family, who have married and settled in the neighborhood. Most of his children are now dead. William Prentice, a son of Dr. Amos Prentice, was a well-educated, talented man. He had studied law, and had been admitted to the bar in New London previous to his coming here (1798). In 1799 he was admitted to the bar in Luzerne county, and after the dismemberment of the county practiced in Ly- coming county. He died Oet. 6, 1806. He is said to have been a young man of excellent character, good talents, and fine personal appearance. He wore his hair braided, hanging upon his shoulders, according to the custom of the times.
Dr. Thomas Thomson Huston (forty-five years a physi- cian in Athens, also druggist and drover, and about 1820 a justice of the peace) was deseended in both lines of ances- try from the Scotch-Irish Presbyterians, who have given so much moral character to Pennsylvania. We learn by the " Colonial Records and Pennsylvania Archives" that, in
September, 1775, Mr. Thomas Huston was appointed licu- tenant of one of the armed boats ; March, 1776, captain of the " Warren ;" August, 1778, captain of the armed brig " Convention ;" and, in October of the same year, he re- ported to the supreme executive couneil that he had " taken several prizes which are not condemned." Family tradition states that he came, on furlough, to his home in Newtowu, Bueks Co., late on a certain afternoon ; his anx- ious, fearful wife persuaded him to retire for the night to a neighboring hill for security. He soon saw British soldiers enter his house. Presenting their bayonets to Mrs. H., they demanded her husband, promising protection if he would give himself up. She assured them there were none there excepting herself, her little children, and a hired boy, who stood trembling by. They ransacked the house, thrusting their bayonets into beds, elosets, or wherever a man might have been. They found some fire-arms, and, looking at the children, proposed to " kill the cursed rebels in the bud," but their leader prevented any further trouble. Other offieers who came home with Huston were taken, and were not released until the war elosed .; About that time the family settled near Carlisle. The oldest child, since well known throughout the State as Judge Charles Huston, graduated at Diekinson, about the age of nineteen ; first en- tered the army, afterwards studied law, then removed to Williamsport, finally to Bellefonte, where he died, 1849, aged eighty years. The parents followed hiru to Williams- port, and kept a publie house, on a corner, northwest of the court-house, for many years. They reared nine children : Charles, the judge ; Jane, who married Mr. Walton; Mary, married Turk ; Elizabeth, married J. Hepburn ; Rachel, married Hays ; Martha, married A. D. Hepburn ; Hugh, died unmarried ; Sarah, living at Bellefonte, unmarried ; and Thomas T., who married Eliza, daughter of Dr. Stephen Hopkins, Athens. Capt. Huston died at Williamsport, in 1824, aged eighty-five years, of dry mortification of the foot. He was blind for some years, but could distinguish any of his many grandchildren, by the voice, as he wel- eomed them while sitting in his arm-chair. His wife- Jeannette Walker before marriage-was a notable house- wife, robust and sprightly, making up boxes of clothing for home missionaries when seventy years old, eyes to her husband when blind, never tired of reading, and he never tired of hearing, out of the blessed Book. She survived him but two months, dying in 1824, aged seventy-five years. Their youngest child, Thomas J. Huston, was like his father in personal appearance. He read medieine with Dr. Wood, of Muncy, graduated in Philadelphia, removed to Athens about 1820, and married. His reputation as a physician and surgcon gave him a good practice, but much of it was among the poor, whom he served as long as he could go ; and he was careless in collecting, so that he never gained property. He held a high position in the Masonic ranks. Originally a Federalist, he joined in the Jackson movement, and theneeforth was an uncompromising Demo- erat. From 1824 to 1832, he was absent, near Lock Haven, in Monroe county, and in Tioga village, Pa. Returning to
+ 1785, £50 were paid Capt. Thomas Huston for recruiting in 1776 and 1777.
# Dr. Amos Prentice, born April 24, 1748, son of Samuel, born Nov. 25, 1702, son of Samuel, horn 1680, son of Thomas, born 1649, son of Capt. Thomas, born England, 1620.
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Athens, he died, 1865, aged seventy-three years. His most excellent wife, Eliza, preceded him to the better land, in 1856, aged sixty-two years. They reared four daughters and one son, Charles Thomas Huston; the latter was ad- mitted to the practice of law in Williamsport, but has been engaged in publishing newspapers in Williamsport, Corn- ing, N. Y., and Athens. His Athens Gleaner was the first paper in Bradford County, independent of party, and from the outset was devoted to the elucidation of local and gen- eral history.
A Dr. Dorman was settled for a time in the western part of Wysox, but had left there in 1792, and nothing further is known of him.
Dr. Adonijah Warner came from Granby, Mass., and lived near Dr. Dorman's place, a little west of where Mr. Laning now lives. He came there a young man, just after he had completed his studies, had a very extensive ride, and was a very successful physician .*
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