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Adjourned Term, June, 1874.
Thomas T. Ritchey, admitted, and removed to New Bethlehem, then to Tionesta, where he is now practicing.
December Term, 1874.
George W. Hood, of Indiana, now State senator from this district.
May Term, 1875.
John T. Dilts, of Punxsutawney, removed to the West after he was ad- mitted.
Henry W. Mundorff, of Punxsutawney, was for some time a member of the firm of Conrad & Mundorff, and now clerk to the prothonotary.
A. J. Monks, of Punxsutawney.
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September Term, 1875.
C. C. Benscoter, of Reynoldsville, studied in Williamsport, and was first admitted to the bar of Lycoming county, elected district attorney in 1882 and removed to Brookville; re-elected in 1885.
December Term, 1875.
Samuel A. Craig, of Brookville, elected district attorney in 1879.
Adjourned Term, January, 1876.
Madison M. Meredith, of Brookville, removed to Edenburg, Clarion county, in 1877, and from there to Clarion. He was appointed corporation clerk in the office of the secretary of the Commonwealth, during the administration of Governor Pattison.
Adjourned Term, August, 1876.
C. H. McCauley, of Ridgway, practices occasionally at this bar. September Term, 1876.
D. E. Brenneman, of Brookville.
George W. Means, of Brookville.
J. A. Scott, of Brookville.
C. Bartles, jr., was here but once.
December Term, 1876.
Burke Corbet, of Brookville, removed to Grand Forks, Dakota, in May, 1878, where he is now practicing his profession.
Frank R. Hindman, of Clarion, seldom attends the courts of this county. William A. Hindman, of Clarion, seldom attends the courts of this county.
February Term, 1877.
M. F. Leason, of Brookville, removed to Kittanning after admission, where he is now practicing his profession.
John W. Walker, of Brookville, elected justice of the peace for Brookville borough in 1885.
John C. Whitehill, of Brookville.
May Term, 1877.
J. M. Hunter, of Kittanning, was here but once.
September Term, 1877.
Joseph A. McDonald, of Reynoldsville, has left the county.
J. J. Frazier, of Clarion, was here but once.
December Term, 1877.
A. C. McCombs, of Clarion, was here but once.
February Term, 1878.
John E. Calderwood, of Punxsutawney.
September Term, 1878. S. H. Whitehill, of Brookville.
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February Term, 1879.
William M. Gillespie, of Punxsutawney, is entirely blind.
Thomas Sutton, of Indiana, was here but once.
September Term, 1879.
Calvin Rayburn read law in Brookville, but after being admitted located in Kittanning, where he is now practicing.
George T. Rodgers, of Brookville, now cashier of the Jefferson County Na- tional Bank, not practicing.
February Term, 1880.
A. A. Graham was here but once.
WV. S. Thomas practiced at this bar and resided in Brookville for a year or two after being admitted, and then removed to Clearfield.
Hiram H. Brosius, of Brookville.
September Term, 1880.
Cadmus Z. Gordon, of Brookville.
J. W. Lee, of Franklin.
February Term, 1881.
John T. Shannafelt, of Clarion.
May Term, 1882.
James M. Corbet, of Brookville, removed to Grand Forks, Dakota, in April, 1882, where he is now associated with his brother Burke, as Corbet Brothers.
September Term, 1882.
John M. Van Vleit, of Brookville.
Denny C. Ogden, of Brookville, removed to Greensburg after being ad- mitted, and is now district attorney of Westmoreland county.
February Term, 1883.
Cyrus H. Blood, of Brookville.
May Term, 1883.
J. Davis Broadhead, of Bethlehem, comes here occasionally, is interested in the sale of coal lands.
September Term, 1883.
G. A. Rathburn, of Ridgway, practices occasionally at this bar.
Alexander J. Truitt, of Punxsutawney.
J. F. McKenrick was here but once.
February Term, 1884.
A. L. Cole, of Du Bois, practices occasionally in these courts.
Charles B. Earley, of Ridgway, practices occasionally in these courts.
September Term, 1884.
Edward A. Carmalt, of Brookville.
G. S. Crosby, of Kittanning, a prominent attorney of Armstrong county, who died in 1886. He was here but once.
T. C. Hipple, of Lock Haven, was here but once.
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December Term, 1884.
John T. Cathers, of Kittanning, was here but once. Harry Hall, of St. Marys, was here but once.
February Term, 1885.
W. H. Ross, of Clarion.
George W. Biddle, of Philadelphia.
George Biddle, of Philadelphia.
Silas M. Pettit, of Philadelphia.
John G. Hall, of Ridgway.
Robert Snodgrass, of Harrisburg, deputy attorney-general of Pennsyl- vania.
May Term, 1885.
F. J. Maffett, of Clarion.
September Term, 1885.
E. L. Davis, of Tionesta.
December Term, 1885.
Francis B. Guthrie, of Titusville.
David I. Ball.
September Term, 1886.
G. Ament Blose, of Hay, Jefferson county.
Charles B. Craig, of New Bethlehem.
May Term, 1887.
T. H. Murry, of Clearfield.
William L. McCracken, of Perry township.
John W. Bell.
THE EMINENT DEAD.
Of those who were admitted to practice in the courts of Jefferson county quite a number have been summoned, from time to time, to appear before the bar of the court presided over by the Omnipotent Judge. We have taken these up in the order in which they were admitted to the bar, and only notice at length those who were residents of the county.
Hugh Brady was born at Northumberland, January 29, 1798. He studied law with the late Daniel Stanard, of Indiana. On the 6th of September, 1821, he was married at Huntingdon, Pa., to Miss Sarah S. Evans, and removed to Brookville May 5, 1832. He was admitted to the bar of Jefferson county at the December term (the first court), 1830, and his name is the seventh on the records of the court. He attended all the subsequent terms of court until he removed to Brookville. His father, William P. Brady, who resided in Indiana county, was connected with the Nicholson Land Company, and owned, or had in charge, much of the land surrounding the borough in Rose township. He was a surveyor, and was frequently here in that capacity in the early days of the county. He was a grandson of Captain John Brady, the great Indian
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fighter, from whom Hugh Brady derived his taste for military affairs, and from whom also his son, Captain Evans R. Brady, inherited the heroism that he displayed so often on the field of battle, and which caused him to at last give his life for the country for which so many generations of his ancestors had fought, but for whom the honor of " dying for the flag" was reserved.
Mr. Brady was generally known as "Colonel " Hugh Brady, having been appointed aid to Governor Johnston, with the rank of colonel. Colonel Brady died at his residence in Brookville, September 4, 1861. Mrs. Brady died Sep- tember 10, 1865. The only survivor of the family is Mrs. Elizabeth Craig, who is now among the very few who can remember Brookville as a wilderness.
The next name on the list of the dead is that of Cephas J. Dunham, who was admitted to the bar at the September term, 1831, and practiced until his death in 1843. He is buried in the old grave-yard. None of his family reside in the county, and no record can be found of him except what we give above.
Caleb A. Alexander, admitted May term, 1834. He was one of the first board of trustees of the Brookville Academy, and was elected county auditor in 1838. He was a prominent attorney, and one of the first and most earnest advocates of the public school system in Jefferson county. He resided in Brookville until about the year 1842, when he removed to Memphis, Tenn., where he died during the late war.
Elijah Heath was born in Warren county, N. J., in October, 1796. When about eighteen years of age he served in the State Militia during the War of 1812-15. He first came to Jefferson county in 1820, and remained until 1822, when he returned to New Jersey, and was married that year to Miss Mary W. Jenks, sister of Dr. John W. Jenks. He then moved to Punxsutawney, where he lived until about 1832, when he settled in Brookville. He read law with Benjamin Bartholomew, and was admitted to the bar at the December term, 1835. He entered into partnership with Isaac G. Gordon in 1846, which partnership, under the firm name of Heath & Gordon, was continued until August 9, 1850, when it was dissolved on account of Judge Heath's removal from Brookville.
Mr. Heath was, from the very first, connected with the political history of the county ; we first find him a candidate for constable of Perry township (which then embraced Punxsutawney) in 1821, to which office he was elected in 1823. He was elected county commissioner in 1829, and in 1830 Governor Wolf appointed him one of the first associate judges for the county, which office he resigned in 1835. In 1831 he was elected one of the justices of the peace for the borough of Brookville. In the docket kept by him during the time he held this office we find that he done quite a large matrimonial busi- ness, many of the older citizens of the county being joined in wedlock by him. Among the first to visit him in this capacity were Hiram Carrier and Marga- ret Brocius, Dr. C. G. M. Prime and Catharine Wagley ; then, a year later,
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appears the record of the marriage of James C Matson, of Rose township, and Harriet Potter, of Pine Creek, parents of Drs. C. M. and W. F. Matson.
Judge Heath was one of the early members of the Methodist Church, and was one of the first class formed in Brookville. He was an avowed Abolitionist in those days, when it was a heinous offense to raise a voice against slavery, and we have already recorded how dearly he paid for helping two poor slaves to escape from the Brookville jail.
In 1850 Judge Heath removed to Pittsburgh, where he resided until 1863, when, shortly after the death of his wife, who died in October, 1863, he re- turned to his native State. He died at New Monmouth, N. J., in May, 1875. His only surviving child is John Heath, of Bay City, Mich.
David Barclay Jenks, eldest son of Dr. John W. Jenks, was born in the State of New Jersey in 1815 or 1816, and came with his parents to Punxsu- tawney in 1818. He received such education as the county afforded, and at- tended Washington College, where he graduated, and read law and was admitted to the bar of Jefferson county in 183-, and then located in Brookville. Both his brothers, William P. and Phineas W. read law with him. He was very success- ful as an attorney, and became one of the most prominent citizens of the new town, but just when his career seemed to be begun, he was stricken down by disease while attending court at Clarion, and died after a few hours' illness, May 6, 1848. Mr. Jenks married Miss Sydney Jack, daughter of Colonel William Jack, now Mrs. George W. Andrews, of Denver, Colorado. They had two children-Mary H., married to Dr. John Mechling, now residing in Den- ver, and Annie W., married to Thomas H. Kingman, now a resident of Orange, N. J.
Samuel Barclay Bishop, son of Rev. Dr. Gara Bishop and Mrs. Sarah Bishop, was born in Philadelphia, July 19, 1815, and came to Brookville in July, 1835, and was admitted to the bar about the year 1837. On the 17th of June, 1842, he was married to Miss Esther Hall. Mr. Bishop was one of the first attorneys at the bar, and a prominent and influential citizen. He died March 26, 1856, and August 18, of the same year, his wife followed him to the tomb, leaving four sons. Of these, Ely, the youngest born, died October 18, 1869, and Charles Morris died March 18, 1876, in the twenty-fourth year of his age. Dr. William G. and Samuel Barclay Bishop, the other sons, both reside in Brookville, the latter on the same lot, on Main street, where their parents lived and died.
Jesse G. Clark, son of William and Susannah Clark, was born January 22, 1816, and came with his parents to Brookville in October, 1830. In 1837 he was admitted to the bar of Jefferson county, and in 1840 was elected to the office of treasurer. On the 10th day of October, 1838, he was married to Miss Sarah W. Hastings, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Hastings, the result of this union being two sons and one daughter. Mr. Clark enjoyed a lucrative
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practice, and was one of the most prominent citizens of the county. He died February 4, 1847. Of the sons, Elijah Heath, the eldest, is now a prominent member of the same bar at which his father practiced in its early days, and is a resident of Brookville. William T., the younger son, died June 20, 1885, in his forty- first year, leaving a wife and six children. He was a gallant soldier, serving in the first three months service, and for almost two years in Company E, One Hundred and Forty-eighth Regiment, being promoted to first lieuten- ant of his company. He was severely wounded at Chancellorsville. Clara Adelaide, the daughter, died December 18, 1846, in the second year of her age. Mrs. Clark, now Mrs. Means, having become the wife of Captain R. R. Means, whom she also survives, is still a resident of Brookville.
Thomas Lucas was one of the first settlers in Jefferson county, and one of the first justices of the peace in the county, his old " docket " showing that he held that office in Pine Creek, and then in Brookville, after the county seat was established from 1810 to 1840, the first entry being January 15, 1810, and the last March 16, 1840. In 1835 he was appointed prothonotary. Mr Lucas was admitted to practice in the several courts of the county at the December term, 1840, when he was over fifty years of age, and practiced until his death, which took place in 1847. The record on his tomb-stone in the old grave-yard, reads as follows: " Thomas Lucas, died February 11, 1847, aged sixty-four years." At the time of his death Mr. Lucas resided in the house, which he had built, opposite the United Presbyterian Church, now the prop- erty of John J. Thompson. The only member of his family living is his daughter, Nancy, now the wife of Dr. R. T. Henry, of Princeville, Lewis county, Ill.
John K. Coxson was born in Mercer county, July 8, 1812, and came to Jefferson county in 1848, locating in Brookville, in the same year. He was admitted to the Erie Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1842, and appointed to Williamsfield, in the Warren district. He afterwards filled the appointments at Clintonville, Red Bank, Luthersburg, and Punxsutawney. The History of the Erie Conference, in the record of the year 1846, says : " Rev. John K. Coxson settled in Jefferson county, Pa., where he entered the practice of pleading law." He read law for two years with Judge Thompson, of Venango county, and one year in the office of George W. Zeigler, esq., of Brookville, and was admitted to the bar of Jefferson county in 1849. January 24, 1850, he was married to Miss Thetis Thom, of Luthersburg, Clearfield county, and that same year removed to Punxsutawney, where he resided until his death, which occurred July 16, 1879. Mr. Coxson continued the practice of his profession until his death, but devoted considerable time to portrait painting and to literary work, and was engaged in the newspaper business for about five years. He was a man of more than usual mental abilities, and of great versatility of talent.
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William Williams Wise was born in Greensburg, Westmoreland county, Pa., on the 27th day of April, 1827. At an early age he attended the old academy in Greensburg, where his manly, honest character, endeared him to both his teachers and fellow pupils. At the age of fourteen, when already well advanced in the classics, he entered the office of the Indiana Register, in Indiana, Pa., where he learned the art of printing. While here he " burned the midnight oil " to prepare himself for the study of law. During his apprenticeship he pub- lished several poems which bore the impress of unusual literary merit. In 1847 the Mexican War broke out, and young Wise laid down the composing stick for the musket, and enlisted in Company D, Second Pennsylvania Volunteers, and was mustered into the service at Pittsburgh, January 4, 1847. He re- mained with his company until December 25, when he was placed on detached Service, by order of General Patterson. In March or April he rejoined his company, and was mustered out of service at Pittsburgh, July 14, 1848. Dur- ing his stay in Mexico, he edited and printed a paper, at General Scott's head- quarters in the city of Mexico. At the close of the war he decided to locate in Brookville, where his father owned some land, and June 8, 1849, entered into partnership with Captain Evans R. Brady, in the publication of the Jefferson- ian. In December, 1851, the partnership of Brady & Wise was dissolved by Captain Wise retiring. In 1850 he was elected to the Legislature from the district composed of Jefferson, Clarion and Armstrong. He was one of the most able and brilliant members of that body. At that time he was a Demo- crat in politics, but when the Republican party was formed he warmly es- poused its principles, and soon became one of the acknowledged leaders of the new party in Jefferson county. In 1858 he was the choice of Jefferson county for Congress, but withdrew his name at the convention in favor of Chapin Hall, who was nominated and elected. In December, 1852, he was admitted to the bar of Jefferson county, and was for a time a partner of Hon. D. Barclay. He was an able and successful attorney. On the 30th of August, 1855, he was married to Miss Evaline Taylor, eldest daughter of Hon. Philip Taylor, of Brookville. When the war cloud burst over the land, Captain Wise closed his law office, bade adieu to his wife and little boy, and promptly enlisted in defense of his country. He was elected captain of one of the first three months companies from Jefferson county, Company I of the Eighth Pennsylvania. Soon after these companies reached the front, Captain Wise was selected to go into the enemy's lines, and endeavor to gain information as to the number and disposition of the enemy's forces, and his plan of op- eration. We can best give an account of this hazardous service by quoting from a letter written by him to his wife, May 30, 1861 : "Colonel Irwin, who was then commanding the Third Brigade, ordered me to make a recon- noissance of the enemy's post at Sheppardstown, Williamsport, and along the line of the Potomac towards Harper's Ferry. Starting the same night
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(in citizen's dress), I went to Hagerstown, through Maryland, into Virginia, penetrated the camp of the secessionists and acquired information that high military authorities considered very valuable. It is true that I was liable to be hung or shot at any moment, but, you know, the first duty of a soldier is to obey the commands of his superiors, no matter what the consequences may be. Returning in safety, after several perilous adventures, I was sent to Har- risburg, with a report of my expedition, maps of the country through which I passed, etc., etc. There a telegraphic message from the secretary of war or- dered me to Washington, where I proceeded at once - had an interview with General Cameron, dined with him that afternoon, and also had a long and confidential conversation with General Scott, with whom I emptied a bottle of wine, and smoked a cigar. Colonel Irwin, Governor Curtin, the secretary of war and General Scott, all unite in pronouncing my service in the enemy's country as most important." For this service, Captain Wise was promoted by the secretary of war, to a captaincy in the regular army, and assigned to Company I, Fifteenth U. S. Infantry, and he at once resigned his captaincy in the volunteer service, and reported for duty to his new regiment. He was ordered to Johnstown, Pa., to recruit for his regiment, and his wife and little boy spent the time of his stay there with him. The Fifteenth was or- dered to join the Western Army, under Rosecrans, and Captain Wise was kept in active service, constantly taking a gallant part in several battles. At Shi- loh his company was hotly engaged and lost heavily. On the 3 1st of Decem- ber, 1862, he was mortally wounded in the battle of Stone River, and died the following day. The story of his last fight can best be told in the words of one of his brother officers, Captain I. H. Young, of the Fifteenth, who wrote the sad intelligence to his wife. On the morning of the 31st, before Murfreesboro, the enemy had driven back the right wing of the army. Our brigade of regulars was in the division of the reserve. The moment had come, when upon them depended the safety or destruction of our entire army. A moment terrible in danger. Steadily at the call of our glorious Rousseau, the little battalion marched on, and amid the fury of the storm of grape and ball and shell, gained the open field he pointed out ; but they could not with- stand the hosts of the rebels who had driven back the strong division of the right. They fought on, falling back, then again advanced, and drove the foe until they reached their former position, not to hold it yet, for the thousands of the enemy were still too strong for twelve hundred men, if each had been a Rousseau ; again they fell back, again they advanced, and this time there were but six hundred hearts to beat on the open field -the field of their glory, and the six hundred held the point. The day was ours-the army was safe. It was during this glorious time, the proudest in our army's history, the moment most sublime even in a soldier's dream, that fell our brother captain. But you are not a soldier ; whatever there may be of glory comes to you too faintly to
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be felt or heard yet, amid the wailing and breaking of heart-strings. We offer you the fullest sympathy of soldier hearts, and pray you to believe with us, that heaven is just the other side of your soldier's grave. We honored your husband, for he possessed the brave man's noblest attributes ; we loved him for the oftentimes we had seen and felt the kindly sympathies of his generous soul."
His brother officers having placed the body of Captain Wise in a vault in Nashville, to await the wishes of his friends, his remains were brought home by Mr. M. H. Shannon, who had been sent for them, and on the 10th of Feb- ruary, 1863, he was borne to his last home, followed by the entire bar to which he had so long been such an ornament. At the court which was then in ses- sion, a committee was appointed to draft resolutions on his death, consist- ing of Isaac G. Gordon, David Barclay and George A. Jenks, and among oth- ers was the following :
" Resolved, 2, That the bar has lost an ornament-a gentleman of learning and ability, and who, from his legal acumen and surpassing eloquence, gave promise of a bright and distinguished future, and in whose intercourse was combined friendship, courtesy and kindness."
Captain Wise, when he fell, had received no less than three rebel bullets in his person ; and no one ever died a nobler, braver death. In his death Jeffer- son county lost one of her best citizens, and the bar one of its brightest orna- ments ; an able lawyer, an accomplished jurist, and an orator not often excelled. He left a wife and one little boy. Mrs. Wise, on September 27, 1882, went to join her soldier husband, and their son, Malcolm William Wise, is now a res- ident of Du Bois, where he occupies the position as cashier of the First Na- tional Bank of that place.
Alexander Lewis Gordon was born in Lewisburg, Union county, Feb- ruary 14, 1829. He, in his youth, attended the public schools of the county, but his education was nearly all self-acquired. About 1852 he came to Brookville and commenced the study of the law with his brother, Hon. Isaac G. Gordon. In 1853 he taught school in the academy building, and at the February term, 1855, he was admitted to the bar. Mr. Gordon was married June 8, 1858, at Shelbyville, Ill., to Miss Achsa J. Hardin, who survives him. In 1858 he was elected district attorney, and re-elected in 1861, and was appointed assessor of internal revenue for the district in 1864, which position he held until the office was merged with those of the collector and deputy collector. On the election of his brother, Hon. I. G. Gordon, to the supreme bench, he formed a copart- nership with Charles Corbet, esq., and the firm of Gordon & Corbet continued until his death. He was for almost twenty years secretary and treasurer of the Red Bank Navigation Company, which office he held at the time of his death. When the citizens of the county were called to face the stern realities of war, A. L. Gordon gave his whole sympathy to the cause, and though not
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physically able to endure the hardships of a soldier's life, he aided with his voice and means in putting men in the field, and when the safety of his own State was endangered in the summer of 1863, he assisted in recruiting Company B, of the Fifty-Seventh Regiment Pennsylvania Militia, and on the promotion of Captain Cyrus Butler to lieutenant-colonel, he was promoted captain, and served with his company until the needs of the service no longer demanded their services, and during that time assisted in putting down the famous "Mor- gan raid." Mr. Gordon was one of the most prominent and most widely known members of this bar, and equally prominent in the Republican party. For many years he was a consistent member of the Presbyterian Church of Brookville, and his heart was deeply interested in the Sunday-school work. The interest he manifested in the youth of the town, and the lessons he taught them have left their impress upon the school and community. An ardent lover of children, and not being blessed with any of his own, he was in the habit of selecting a number of little ones, to whom each succeeding Christmas he was a veritable Santa Claus, and by whom he will never be forgotten. In the spring of 1885, the disease, which for some time had been sapping his vitality, assuming alarming symptoms, he went to Philadelphia to obtain the ad- vice of eminent physicians there, but they could afford no relief, and on the 3d of May he passed away; his devoted wife and brother being by his side during his illness and death. The Pennsylvania Railroad placed a special car at the disposal of his friends to bring his remains home for burial, and on their arrival at Driftwood they were met by an escort from the bar consisting of Messrs. G. A. Jenks, A. C. White, S. A. Craig, W. F. Stewart, W. D. J. Marlin, and G. W. Means, who escorted the remains of their fellow-attorney to the depot at Brookville, where a detail of E. R. Brady Post, G. A. R., took charge of the remains and bore them to his late residence, from which they were followed on the Tuesday following by a sorrowing community to the cemetery ; the services being conducted by Hobah Lodge A. Y. M. and E. R. Brady Post G. A. R., both of which turned out as organizations to do honor to a brother and comrade.
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