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HENRY C. BOYER, son of the Hon. B. Markley Boyer, president judge of the Thirty-eighth Judicial District, was born at Norristown May 23, 1855. He was educated at the Treemount Seminary, Norristown ; "The Hill," Pottstown, Pa .; Georgetown College, D. C .; and the University of Pennsylvania, class of 1876. In 1875 he began the study of law in his father's (B. M. Boyer's) office, at Norristown. He was admitted to the bar of Montgomery County in April, 1878, and to practice in the Common Pleas Court No. 1, of Phila- delphia, on January 1, 1881. He is solicitor for the horough of Bridgeport and the West Laurel Hill Cemetery Company.
JACOB A. STRASSBURGER was born in Hilltown township, Bucks Co., October 15, 1849. He ob- tained his preparatory education at the Seminary of Quakertown and the Treemount Seminary, at Norris- town. In 1870 he entered the sophomore class of Ursinus College, from which he graduated in 1873, and then commenced the study of law in the office of
Gen. B. Frank Fisher, in Philadelphia. He was ad- mitted to the bar in that county in June, 1876, and practiced in the city until his removal to Norristown, where he was admitted in June, 1878, and where he has sinee remained in practice. He was the Repub- liean candidate for district attorney, in 1883.
HENRY FREEDLEY, JR., is a native of Norristown, born July 29, 1848. He graduated at the Polytechnic College, in Philadelphia, in 1868, and in 1871 com- menced the study of law at Norristown, in the office of Benjamin E. Chain. After a short time his study was temporarily suspended, but was recommenced in 1876. In November, 1878, he was admitted to the bar, and at onee commenced practice at Norristown, where he is still located. He holds the position of solicitor for the Norristown Passenger Railway, now in process of construction and nearly completed.
MONTGOMERY EVANS, son of Thomas B. Evans, was born in Limerick township, Montgomery Co., November 18, 1853. His rudimentary edncation was obtained at the common schools of the township, and afterwards he attended the Phoenix Normal Institute, under Professor Joseph S. Bond and Professor H. Page Davidson. In the spring of 1870 he commenced study at the Treemount Seminary, at Norristown, under l'rofessor John W. Loch, and remained there until July, 1871, when he was admitted to the freshman class at Yale College. He did not, however, become a student of Yale, but in September, 1871, entered La- fayette College, at Easton, Pa., where he was graduated in June, 1875. In the following September he located at Montrose, Susquehanna Co., Pa., where he held the position of principal of the public schools for two years. In May, 1877, he relinquished the position, and entered as a law student in the office of Benjamin E. Chain, and in December, 1878, was admitted to the bar at Norristown, where he is now located in practice.
WILLIAM F. SOLLY, a native of Norristown, and one of the law pupils of G. Rodman Fox, Esq., was born February 17, 1858. He was educated in the public schools and in the High School of Norristown, from which he graduated in June, 1873. Atter leav- ing school he was employed as a clerk in his father's store until May, 1876, when he commenced reading law. He was admitted to the bar in September, 1879, and immediately afterwards began the business of his profession at Norristown, where he is now located. He is solicitor for several corporations and for the register of wills of Montgomery County.
FREELAND G. HOBSON is a native of Upper Provi- dence township, born October 13, 1848. He was cdu- cated at Ursinus College, graduated in 1876, and in the same year hegan the study of law in the office of Jacob V. Gotwalts, in Norristown. He was admitted to the bar in March, 1880, and commenced the business of his profession in Norristown, where he is still in practice. He was chairman of the Centennial Asso- ciation of Montgomery County, and is now editor of the Montgomery Law Reporter.
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WILLIAM F. DANNEHOWER was a law student in
ship January 15, 1852. Ile was educated at Ranibo's the office of G. Rodman Fox, Esq., was admitted to | Collegiate Institute and at Ursinus College, graduating the bar of Montgomery County June 7, 1880, and im- from the latter institution in the spring of 1877. lle commenced reading law at Norristown in the office of Joseph L. Allabaugh, and completed his legal study under the preceptorship of Louis M. Childs. He was admitted to practice in March, 1881, and located in Norristown, where he is now engaged in the business of his profession. mediately located in business at Norristown, where he still remains in practice. He is a native of Zeiglers- ville, Montgomery Co., born December 17, 1854. He was educated, first, in the common school, then attended one year at the State Normal School, at Kutztown, Berks Co., and one year at the Excelsior Normal Institute, at Carversville, Bueks Co., and in the fall of 1872 entered Lafayette College, from which he graduated in the spring of 1876. In 1877 he commenced reading law, and during his term of legal study he had for some time the editorial man- agement of the Norristown Register.
FRANK H. BAKER, son of Andrew HI. Baker, cashier of the Jenkintown National Bank, was born at Frank- linville, Montgomery Co., September 8, 1858. He attended the High School of Norristown, graduating with the class of 1875, and was afterwards a student for two years at Treemount Seminary, under Professor John W. Loch. lle commenced the study of law in September, 1877, in the office of Benjamin E. Chain, Esq., and was admitted to the bar in January, 1881, from which time to the present he has been engaged in the practice of his profession at Norristown.
ELWOOD L. HALLMAN was admitted to the bar in Montgomery County in January, 1881, after the usual term of law-reading in the office of the Hon. Charles Hunsicker, at Norristown, Mr. Hallman is a native ot Upper Providence township, Montgom- ery Co., born July 22, 1857. After a preparatory course of study at the Treemount Seminary, under Professor John W. Loeh, he (in 1875) entered Dart- mouth College, at Hanover, N. H., where he was graduated in June, 1878. From his admission in 1881 to the present time he has been engaged in the prae- tiee of his profession at Norristown. During the whole of his praetice he has been solicitor for the Royers Ford Bridge Company, and since 1883 has also been employed as solieitor for the People's National Bank of Norristown.
WALTER S. JENNINGS is a native of England, born at Truro, in the county of Cornwall, January 7, 1855. He was educated chiefly in the schools of Norristown, and in 1877 commeneed the study of law in the office of the Hon. George N. Corson. Having finished the usual course of study, he was admitted to the bar in February, 1881, and located in business in Norris- town, where he has since remained in practice.
ISAAC CHISM, now engaged in the practice of law at Norristown, is a native of Philadelphia, born May 31, 1856. He commenced his education under private tutors, and was afterwards sneeessively a student at the Norristown High School, at Treemount Seminary, under Professor John W. Loch, and at the Hahne- mann Medical College. He then taught at the West Penn Square Academy, in Philadelphia, until 1878, when he commenced reading law at Norristown in the office of the Hon. B. M. Boyer. He was admitted to the har in September, 1881, and commenced the business of his profession in Norristown. He was ad- mitted to the Philadelphia bar September 30, 1882, to the bar of the Supreme Court April 21, 1884; is also a member of the bar of Delaware County.
WILLIAM M. CLIFT was born May 13, 1854; was educated at the Philadelphia Central High School, became a law student in the office of Ilenry K. Weand, in Norristown, and was admitted to practice in Mont- gomery County in June, 1882. He is now stenographic reporter for the courts of Montgomery and Bucks Counties, a position to which he was appointed before his admission to the bar, and which he has held con- tinuously to the present time.
HENRY B. GARBER, son of Charles H. Garber, who was for nearly forty years a member of the Montgom- ery County bar, was born at Norristown January 31, 1859, and was educated at Treemount Seminary, under Professor John W. Loch. In the spring of 1876 he commenced the study of law in the office of G. Rod- man Fox, and was admitted to the bar in August, 1882, immediately after which he began the business of his profession at his present location in Norris- town.
EUGENE D. EGBERT was born in Lower Merion township, Montgomery County, December 30, 1856. HENRY M. TRACY is a native of Conshohocken, On the 30th of January, 1875, he graduated at the | born in 1861. He studied law in the office of Daniel Norristown High School, and soon afterwards entered as a law student in the office of the IIon. George N. Corson. He commeneed business as an attorney at Norristown in 1881, having been admitted to prae- tiee on the 7th of February in that year. Dougherty, of Philadelphia, and graduated in the Law Department of the University of Pennsylvania in June, 1882, this being equivalent to admission to practice. He was admitted to the bar in Montgomery County in September of the same year. He is now in practice in both counties, having an office at Conshohocken and another in Philadelphia.
HARRY M. BROWNBACK was born in West Vincent township, Chester Co., December 17, 1860. He was educated in private schools and at Ursinus College, where he remained a student until the spring of 1878,-the end of his junior year,-when he com- meneed the study of law in the office of Franklin
EPHRAIM F. SLOUGH was born in Worcester town- | March, Esq. In December, 1882, he was admitted to
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the bar of Montgomery County, and established at Norristown, where he is still in practice.
HENRY D. SAYLOR was born October 22, 1857, at Pottstown, where he attended the public schools and the Pottstown High School, and afterwards entered the Law School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he graduated in June, 1882. On completing his education he became a law student under Thomas J. Ashton, E-q., of Philadelphia, but completed his law course in the office of E. Coppee Mitchell, of that city. He was admitted to practice in Philadelphia in June, 1882, and soon afterwards (February, 1883) was admitted in Montgomery County, where he commenced practice. He has an office in Norristown and another at Pottstown, which is his place of residence.
DAVID H. Ross, son of John Ross, is a native of New York State, born at New York Mills, in Oneida County, February 18, 1855. He was a student in the University of Pennsylvania; studied law under the Hon. Clement B. Penrose, judge of the Orphans' Court of Philadelphia; was admitted to the Philadel- phia bar in January, 1879, and in Montgomery County in March, 1883, and has since been engaged in prac- tice in both counties, having an office in Conshohocken and also one in Philadelphia.
B. PERCY CHAIN, son of Benjamin E. Chain, Esq., of the Montgomery bar, was born at Norristown De- cember 22, 1858. He was educated at Lafayette Col- lege, at Easton, Pa., studied law in the office of his father, was admitted to the bar in May, 1883, and located in practice in his native town.
MUSCOE M. GIBSON, son of the Rev. Isaac Gibson, was born at Blacksburg, W. Va., February 6, 1859. He acquired his education at the Norristown High School, at the Treemount Seminary, under Professor John W. Loch, and at Lafayette College, where he was graduated in 1880. He studied law in the office of Benjamin E. Chain, Esq., was admitted to the bar of Montgomery County in June, 1883, and then located in business in Norristown, where he is now in practice.
D. OGDEN ROGERS, son of George W. Rogers, of the Montgomery County bar, was born at Norristown June 4, 1860. He attended Treemount Seminary about three years, and was afterwards a student at Lafayette College in the class of 1882. He was a law student in the office of his father, with whom he be- came a partner in the business of his profession soon after his admission to practice in June, 1883. He is solicitor for the Ambler National Bank, for J. M. Albertson & Co., bankers, of Norristown, for the Ambler Building and Loan Association and for the Washington Benevolent Society.
Attorneys' List .- The following is a list of the resident practicing attorneys of the bar of Montgom- ery County, with the dates of their admission, as published in 1873 by direction of the court, with those subsequently admitted :
Joseph L. Allabangh, admitted April 11, 1855.
Andrew J. Anderson, admitted April 16, 1858.
J. Wright Apple, admitted August 17, 1869.
Thomas Burnside, admitted February 13, 1804. Benjamio Bartholomew, admitted Jannary 17, 1826.
Charles W. Brooke, admitted November 17, 1834. James Boyd, admitted Angust 16, 1842. Joho R. Breitenbach, admitted February 21, 1843. Benjamin M. Boyer, admitted August 21, 1843. William Butler, admitted November 18, 1:45. G. Blight Browne, admitted February 16, 1846. Henry W. Bonsall, admitted Angust 9, 1853. Elijah W. Beads, admitted January 10, 1854.
Enoch A. Banks, admitted August 20, 1855. Albert Bradfield, admitted June 18, 1861. George W. Bush, admitted Angust 19, 1861.
Heury U. Brunner, admitted September 26, 1866.
Henry R. Brown, admitted November 13, 1866.
Theodore W. Bean, admitted February 24, 1869. John D. Bertolet, admitted May 27, 1870. John W. Bickel, admitted October 18, 1871.
llorace G. Boyer, admitted December 14, 1875. Wallace J. Boyd, admitted June 9, 1876. Henry C. Boyer, admitted April 6, 1878.
Frank II. Baker, admitted January 15, 1881.
Harry M. Brownback, admitted December 14, 1882.
John M. Crawford, admitted April 16, 1844.
Benjamin Evans Chain, admitted November 22, 1844. Patrick Cass, admitted February 20, 1845. George N. Corson, admitted August 21, 1856. Franklin Crosby, admitted August 16, 1858. Louis M. Childs, admitted March 14, 1876. Isaac Chism, admitted September 14, 1881. William M. Clift, admitted June 1, 1882. B. Percy Chain, admitted May 7, 1883. Alexander R. Cutler, admitted February 23, 1885.
Samuel Dorrance, admitted May 22, 1837.
Francis Dimond, admitted November 18, 1839.
Henry B. Dickinson, admitted November 16, 1863.
William Henry Dewees, admitted April 13, 1865. George Delp, admitted May 16, 1865.
Charles Davis, admitted November 13, 1865. John Davis Duffiebl, admitted January 15, 1867. T. Jefferson Day, admitted August 21, 1871. William F. Dannehower, admitted June 7, 1880. Benjamin Evans, admitted November 13, 1x10. James B. Evans, admitted November 25, 1853. Miller D. Evans, admitted November 15, 1864. HI. Preston Egbert, admitted September 26, 1866. Charles Eyre, admitted August 17, 1868. Warren 1. Evans, admitted May 18, 1871. Rowland Evans, admitted August 20, 1872. Montgomery Evans, admitted December 2, 1878. Eugene D. Egbert, admitted February 7, 1881. John Freedley, admitted August 16, 1820. Joseph Fornance, admitted August 21, 1832. Henry Freedley, admitted Angust 16, 1836. G. Rodman Fox, admitted November 19, 1838. Edward J. Fox, admitted July 13, 1846.
William F. Filbert, admitted May 15, 1854. Augustus G. Feather, admitted September 1, 1860. Joseph Fornance, admitted April 12, 1866. Henry Freedley, Jr., admitted November 5, 1878. Jolın S. Freeman, admitted October 14, 1884. Charles H[. Garber, admitted May 21, 1845. Zadok T. Galt, admitted April 15, 1847. Jesse 11. Gery, admitted February 23, 1855.
John W. Gumpsey, admitted September 27, 1865. Jacob V. Gotwalts, admitted Angust 20, 1867. Henry B. Garber, admitted August 7, 1882. Muscoe M. Gibson, admitted June 7, 1883. Sammel Holstein, admitted Angust 16, 1825. Benjamin F. Hancock, admitted August 19, 1828. John Henderson, admitted - , 1815. Nathaniel P. Hobart, admitted August 17, 1830. Emanuel Helffenstein, admitted April 11, 1832. Charles B. Heacock, admitted April 14, 1835. John Henry Hobart, admitted May 17, 1836. John Potts Hobart, admitted November 21, 1836.
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Hilary B. Hancock, admitted May 19, 1:46. Robert H1. Hobart, admitted Angust 20, 1:46. Joseph W. Hunsicker, admitted November 21, 1850. Charles Hunsicker, admitted August 19, 1>57. John F. Hartranft, admitted October 24, 1860. Jacob R. Hunsicker, admitted May 23, 1861. John M. Hummel, admitted June 29, 18,2. George C. Ilouver, admitted June 18, 1×77. Freeland G. Hobson, admitted March 1, 1880.
Elwood L. Hallman, admitted January 15, 1881. John Richard Jones, admitted October 15, 1839. Richard B. Jones, admitted May 14, 1810. Francis Mayberry Jolly, admitted May 14, 1822. Owen Jones, admitted May 19, 1842.
William Laurence Jones, admitted January 11, 1860.
Daniel Jacoby, admitted March 2, 1866,
J. P. Hfale Jenkins, admitted May 2, 1>74.
Walter S. Jennings, admitted February 7, 1831. Philip Kendall, admitted August 22, 1826. David Krause, admitted January 19, 1852. Sammel A. Kelsay, admitted May 26, 1862. C. Tyson Kratz, admitted June 4, 1876. Christopher Leoser, admitted February 26, 1×22. Abraham B. Longaker, admitted September 28, 1853. Henry Livezey, admitted November 10, 1809. Nicholas II. Larzelere, admitted September 29, 1877. Philip S. Markley, admitted November 13, IN10. John S. McFarland, admitted November 17, 1828. James Milpor, admitted 1794. Daniel H1. Mulvany, admitted April 12, 1831. Addison May, admitted August 21, 1839. John McNair, admitted May 29, 1851. Henry McMiller, admitted October 18, 1852. Charles T. Miller, admitted August 22, 1855. Franklin March, admitted August 31, 1860. Franklin M. Molony, admitted April 13, 1865. Elbridge McConkey, admitted May 16, 1865. Charles Henry Mathews, admitted June 18, 1867. Benjamin F. McAtee, admitted October 30, 1872. Samuel Mooney, Jr., admitted December 16, 1876. James 1. E. Naille.
T. Warren U'Neil, admitted October 25, 1875. Levi Pawling, admitted November -, 1795. Nathan R. Potts, adınitted August 14, 1804. Ferdinand H. l'otts, admitted April 14, 1829. William Powell, admitted August 15, 1821. Benjamin Powell, admitted January 20, 1830. James M. Pawling, admitted November 22, 1831. John Potts, admitted August 16, 1836. Benedict D. Potts, admitted November 23, 1840. John N. Pumroy, admitted November 1, 1843. Howard Newcomb Potts, adiuitted November 24, 1843. Thomas M. Pawling, admitted May 20, 1:45. Thomas P. Potts, admitted November 19, 1855. Thomas Ross, admitted 1785.
Thomas Ross, admitted Angust 16, 1830. William Ross, admitted November 22, 1831. Jenkins J. Ross, admitted August 21, 1843. Jonathan M. Roberts, admitted May 19, 1848. George W. Rogers, admitted January 23, 1854. Oscar Reichenbach, admitted October 24, 1860. Samuel C. Roberts, admitted November 20, 1860. Benton Ramsey, admitted February 7, 1876. William A. Reading, admitted January 15, 1881. David H. Ross, admitted March 5, 1883. D. Ogden Rogers, admitted June 11, 1853. Jolin II. Scheetz, aduritted August 23, 1823. John B. Sterigere, admitted November 17, 1829.
George W. Stinson, admitted February 20, 1844. Charles Slemmer, admitted May 19, 1846. Ilenry A. Stevens, admitted October 23, 1848. Richard T. Stewart, admitted March 1, 1849. Charles H. Stinson, admitted May 22, 1849. Edward Schall, admitted August 20, 1858. Edwin Schall, admitted Angust 20, 1858. Daniel MI. Smyser, admitted January 13, 1862. James W. Schrack, admitted November 15, 1873.
Aaron S. Swartz, admitted May 10, 1875. Wm. Ilenry Sutton, admitted May 17, 1875. J. A. Strausberger, admitted June 6, Ists. William F. Solly, admitted september 1, IST !. Ephraim F. Slough, admitted March 11, 1851 Juseph Austin Spencer, admitted December 7, Iss1. Henry D. Saylor, admitted February 5, 1883. Samuel H. Traquair, admitted August 17, 1835. Israel Thomas, admitted Angust 19, 1845. Elijah Thomas, admitted Angust 20, Isfil. Carrol S. Tyson, admitted March 3, 1x63.
Neville D. Ty-on, admitted August 17, 1869.
Henry M. Tracy, admitted September 13, 1882.
Joseph U'mistead, admitted October 23, 185-1. Abram Weaver, admitted March 3, 1×46. Lewis S. Wells, admitted May 19, 1853. Henry K. Weand, admitted April 21, 1860. George Dering Wolff, admitted November 15, 1871.
Irwin P. Wanger, admitted December 1>, 1>75.
William HI. Yerkes, admitted November 15, 1859.
Isaac D. Yocum, admitted May 21, 1872.
The following are the students at the Montgomery county bar, 1885 : Ephraim L. Acker, Norman B. Corson, John M. Petra, Warren M. Dickinson, Gilbert R. Fox, Jr., J. B. Holland, Edward E. Long, Albert E. Longaker, Frank L. Murphy, Robert Stinson, C. Henry Stinson.
Settling the Docket-Professional Comity-Lay Auditors-Rules of Court-An Important Water Case .- SETTLING THE DOCKET .- A practice known as "Settling the Docket " appears to have prevailed at the bar of Montgomery County for many years prior to 1836 ; when it began we are not advised, but that it terminated at or about the above date seems to be authenticated by the preseut senior resident members of the profession. The practice was con- cerning what we would uow term the making up of the trial list. Iu the days referred to, at the close of a term, the bar would meet at the Washington House (now Kopliu's hardware-store) to settle the docket ; the chairman would have before him the appearance docket and would call in their regular order the cases brought to that term, as follows: No. 1. Smith v8. Jones, suit upou promissory uote. Counsel for plain- tiff would rise and briefly state his case. If there was no just defense counsel for defendant would re- spond by saying, "Enter judgment for plaintiff for the amount of note or claim, with stay of execution for six months," the practice seeming to be on the part of the defense that if the trial be waived, the time gained by insistiug upon it would be coneeded by the plaintiff. The chairman of the meeting would then enter judgment for plaintiff with stay of executiou for the time named by counsel, and the prothonotary would afterwards enter the same in the judgment docket from this memoranda. If upon the call of a ease counsel for the defendant would state that he had a just defense, a plea would be entered with or without a narr, as they might agree. In this manner the list of eases would be called aud entries made by the chairman. When the business was all transacted the bar adjourned to the "Term Supper; " these were convivial occasions and greatly enjoyed by the prac- ticing members in those days. They were informal and social ; set speeches and labored responses to pro- posed sentiments were unpopular at these gatherings ;
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the "occasion " was always stimulating and sugges- tive, and volunteers ever responsive. This was na- tural and in accordance with customs and manners of the period. The records show, among those who thus associated in the settlement of the docket, the names of Bartholomew, Burnsideand Brook, Dorrance, Freedley and Fornance, Henderson, Holstein, Han- cock, and the surviving and veteran Gen. Hobart, Jolly and Kendall, Markley, McFarland and Mul- vany, Levi and James Pawling, Potts and the Pow- ells, Ross, Thomas, Williams, Scheets and Sterigere. Something akin to this practice was that instituted during the administration of the late Judge Ross in the bar meetings, to make up an occasional trial list of "short cases." At these meetings cases were called from the appearance or continual docket by the chairman (usually James Boyd, Esq.), whose effi- cieney in distinguishing short cases from long ones made him a terror to litigants for delay. If cases were found to be "short," they were so designated by the chairman and placed on a separate trial list ; a large list of such cases could be disposed of in a week, and meritorious cases of collections hastened. But those latter-day har meetings were severely business-like transactions, and unattended with a "supper " or any after associations of a social or convivial nature.
EARLY PROFESSIONAL COMITY. - The following appears in the Norristown papers October 22, 1834:
"DANIEL. H. MULVANY
" Respectfully announces to his friends and the public that in conse- quence of an arrangement entered into with John Freedley, Esq., relative to the practice of law, he will hereafter occupy the same office with Mr. Freedley next door to the store of Samnel Jacoby, where he will attend to all professional business which may be entrusted to him.
" The undersigned would also give notice that hereafter, whenever he shall be absent from home, his professional business will be in the charge of Mr. Mulvany, who will also attend to the calls of those interested in the same.
"JOHN FREEDLEY."
We are not advised when the above arrangement terminated, but we find them on opposite sides in the trial of the engineers, or celebrated Williams case, in March, 1836, Mulvauy, then deputy attorney-general for the commonwealth and Freedley for the defense.
The following auditor's notice shows an obsolete practice, which appears to have existed as late as 1836 :
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