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The poor district of Luzerne County had only been organized by aet of May 1, 1861, less than a year before the union with Carbon County was effected. The commissioners appointed were Joseph Greena- walt, of Hazelton, Ralph Tozer, of Hazel township, and Richard Sharp, of Foster township. Their suc- cessors, a board of directors eleeted in October, made the proposition to unite with the Carbon County districts before they had made any definite arrange- ments for building a poor-house. Arrangements were made adjusting the property proportionally when the Middle Coal Field Poor District was formed, and the districts of Luzerne County paid to the Car- bon County authorities four thousand five hundred dollars, when they became the joint beneficiaries with them of the house and farm. An addition, forty by forty feet square, and two stories in height, was ereeted at the west end of the poor-house. In the fall of 1869, it having become obvious that a hospital was necessary, steps were taken toward establishing
one. A committee was appointed to visit hospitals in several counties of the State, to obtain ideas as to the best plan for building one. A dratt embodying the most valuable details was drawn up, and on April 4, 1870, was adopted. Work was immediately com- menced in preparation for the foundations, and pro- posals for building were advertised for, the result of which was that the directors entered into contract with John Fiddler in the sum of fourteen thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars for erecting a three- story strneture with Mansard roof, and forty by eighty feet in dimensions. This building was completed in the spring of 1871. The barn upon the poor farm was destroyed by fire on the night of May 10, 1880, and was replaced by a fine structure soon after, at a eost of six thousand dollars. The buildings of the Middle Coal Field Poor District are commodious and well arranged, are heated by steam, and lighted by gas throughout, and are kept in excellent condition. The total receipts during the year 1882 were $25,924.10, and the expenditures $21,657.23, of which $16,599.64 was the cost of maintenance for the year. The whole nmuber of inmates during the year was 314, and the total number of days' support given them was 65,609, the average daily number of inmates being nearly 180. The produce of the farm for 1882 was 150 tons of hay, 957 bushels rye, 136 bushels wheat, 400 bush- els corn, 808 bushels oats, 137 bushels buckwheat, 1800 bushels potatoes, 100 bushels beets, 150 bushels turnips, 300 bushels mangel-wurzels, 2500 heads cab- bage, 1800 pounds butter. There were raised and slaughtered 4890 pounds of pork and 3700 pounds of beef. The stock on farm Dee. 31, 1882, was 9 horses, 24 cows, 32 calves, 13 yearlings, 2 bulls, 21 shoats, 24 pigs, 8 hogs, and 300 fowls.
The present directors are H. B. Coophan, P. ... Boyle, and Henry Beineman.
CHAPTER IV.
CIVIL LIST.
Roster of Civil Officials of Carbon County and of Representatives in the National and State Legislatures, 1
MEMBERS OF CONGRESS.
1852. Asa Packer.
1854. Asa Packer.
1878. Charles Albright.
1880. Robert Klotz.
SENATORS.
1832. Thomas Craig, Jr.
1869. A. G. Brodhead.
1878. Allen Craig.
1 For judges of the courts, see next chapter.
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MEMBERS OF ASSEMBLY.
1843. John Fatzinger. 1844. James R. Struthers. 1846. Peter Bauman, Alexander Lockhart. 1848-19. Robert Klotz. 1850-51. William Lilly, Jr. 1852-53. James R. Struthers.
1854-55. Thomas Craig, Jr.
1856. Enos Tolan. 1857. Charles II. Williams.
1858. Samuel Balliet.
1859. Zachariah H. Long.
1860. William H. Butler.
1861-62. Thomas Craig, Jr.
1863-64. Zachariah H. Long. 1865-67. Allen Craig.
1868. James Place. 1869-70. William B. Leonard. 1871. C. S. Detrick. 1872. E. T. McDonough. 1873. William Kistler.
1874. A. J. Durling.
1875-76. James A. Harvey. 1876. J. C. Kramer.
1878. J. G. Zern, Michael Cassidy. 1880. Michael Cassidy, J. G. Zern. 1882. E. II. Snyder, John J. Gallagher.
SHERIFFS.
1843. Charles Snyder.
1846. John Painter.
1849. Isaac Ripple. 1852. John Lentz.
1855. Francis Stueker.
1858. Amos Reigel.
1861. Charles Packer.
1864. Reuben Ziegenfuss.
1867. Peter S. Keiser.
1870. Jacob W. Roudenbush.
1873. Oliver Brenizer.
1876. Jacob W. Roudenbush.
1879. Thomas Koonz. ISSI. Charles W. Lentz.
CORONERS.
1843. Lewis Haney. 1846. John Horn, Jr.
1849. William H. Eberle.
1852. A. G. Brodhead.
1865. L. D. Knowles.
1858. S. B. Hutchinson.
1859-60. Elwin Bauer.
1863. R. Leonard. 1864. Solomon Driesbael. 1865. John D. Longshore. 1866. Horace De Young. 1867. Elwin Bauer. 1868. J. C. Kramer. 1869. Joseph Defretsn.
1870-71. John Painter.
1872. James B. Tweedle. 1873. John T. Weston. 1874. J. J. Smyth. 1875. A. M. Stapp. 1876-78. P. D. Keiser. 1879-81. C. W. Lentz. 1882-83. P. H. Latham.
PROTHONOTARIES.
1843. William II. Brown.
1846. Charles Snyder.
1849-52. Dennis Bauman.
1855. Stephen E. Sites.
1858. Robert Q. Butler.
1861. Thomas J. Heberling.
1864-70. J. Il. Siewers.
1873-76. Thomas Kemerer.
1879-82. George W. Esser.
REGISTERS AND RECORDERS.
1843. Robert Klotz.
1846-49. Oliver Musselman.
1852-55. A. B. Nimson.
1858. Edward K. Stroh.
1861-67. A. B. Nimson.
1869. William Grover.
1872. Alfred Whittingham.
1875-78. Bernard Phillips. 1881. James H. Hendricks.
TREASURERS.
18-13. Peter Bauman.
1845. Abraham Shortz.
1847. Laurence D. Knowles.
1849. James R. Struthers.
1851. James I. Blakeslec.
1853. A. G. Brodhead.
1855. Sanmel B. Priee.
1857. Franklin Reed.
1859. Robert Klotz.
1861. Conrad Kocher.
1863. M. W. Roudenbush.
1865. Patrick Sharkey.
1867. A. G. Brodhead.
1869. James Sweeny.
1871. Edgar Twining.
1873. William E. Levan.
1875. Edgar Twining ..
1878. Max Schneibing.
1881. Douglass McLean.
COMMISSIONERS.
1843. William Kern. George H1. Dougherty. George Belford. 1844. John D. Bauman. John G. Kemerer. 18415. Jacob Andreas.
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1846. Christopher Shores. Ephraim Balliet. 1847. John Lentz. 1848. John A. Ziegenfuss. 1849. John Horn.
1850. Abraham Shortz. 1851. Charles Gilbert.
1852. William Kern. 1853. James Brodriek.
1854. H. B. Berryhill.
1855. Abraham Hasleman.
1856. Joshua Bullock.
1857. Peter Hartz.
1858. Andrew Grover.
1859. Abraham Shortz.
1860. Enos Koeh.
1861. Daniel Stemler.
1862. Abel Ilewitt.
1863. Peter Hartz.
1864. Charles Menden.
1865. William H. Cool. George Smith.
1866. William Wagner.
1867. John D. Bauman.
1868. B. F. Klippinger.
1869. Charles Murray. Edward Raber. 1870. Levi Hasleman.
1871. Henry Breneman, Jr.
1872. Samuel Hasleman.
1873. Daniel Kennedy.
1874. Henry Boyer. Jonah Rieh.
1875. Daniel Rouse. Henry Boyer.
1878. Jolm J. Gallagher.
1881. Elwin Sensinger. Samuel Hasleman. Amos Reigel.
AUDITORS.
1843. Charles Dinkey, Thomas Snyder.
1814. R. D. Stiles, A. B. Nimson.
1845. Nathan Fogley. 1846. John Horn, Reuben Dinkey.
1817. William Lilly, Jr.
1848. Joshua Bullock.
1849. Lewis Ilaney.
1850. S. B. Price.
1851. Thomas Craig, Jr.
1852. Hiram Wolf.
1853. Tilghman Arner.
1854. Solomon Rinker.
1855. William Lilly, Jr.
1856. Reuben Leh.
1857. James Houston. 1858, George Broden. 1859. Daniel Ileberling. 1860. Lafayette Lentz, A. J. Lauderbum.
1861. Samuel Martyn.
1862. C. A. Williams, John Fiddler. 1863. Daniel Stiles, John Ash.
1864. Allen Craig.
1865. George K. MeCollum.
1866. Harrison A. Beltz, Lafayette Lentz.
1867. Max. Schneiting.
1868. William M. Jones.
1869. Isaac M. Holcomb.
1870. Joseph Young, Levi Hartz.
1871. D. R. Keller. 1872. Henry G. J. Ruemiller.
1873. Dennis Bauman.
1874. P. D. Keiser, J. B. Longshore.
1875. Samuel Ziegenfuss, Michael McHugh.
1878. Samuel Molzer, D. B. Albright, Paul Ker- fer, Jr. 1881. Samuel Ziegenfuss, J. W. Ilunter.
DISTRICT ATTORNEYS.
1843-46. James R. Struthers.
1850-55. O. II. Wheeler.
1856. Samuel Me Lean.
1859 (May). William H. Butler, Allen Craig.
1862-65. W. B. Leonard.
1867-71. E. C. Dimmick.
1874-77. E. R. Siewers.
1880-83. Edward M. Mulhearn.
SURVEYORS.
1850. Henry Boyer, Jr.
1853. S. C. Sites.
1855. Charles H. Nimson.
1859 (January). Thomas L. Foster, Hiram Bel- ford.
1861. Oliver O. Bauman.
1863-64. Edwin Shortz.
1865. R. F. Hofford.
1866. James Harvey.
1867. C. II. Dickerman.
186S. Henry Boyer.
1872. William G. Freyman.
1874. Josiah Xander.
1875. Charles Carroll.
1878. 11. B. Salkeld.
1879. IIenry Boyer.
1883. Franz Moehl.
SUPERINTENDENTS OF COUNTY SCHOOLS.
1854. J. H. Siewers.
1857. Thomas L. Foster.
1863. R. T. Hofford.
1881 (June). T. M. Balliet.
JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.
(The first record of a justice of the peace for that part of the territory of Northampton County now em- braeed in Carbon County is found in 1785, when Enoeh Beer was commissioned justice for Lehigh
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(now Northampton County) and Towamensing town- ships. In September of that year the county of North- ampton was divided into three judicial districts, and the persons whose names are here given held jurisdic- tion over territory a part of which is now Carbon County. In 1808 the county was again districted and so remained till 1840, when by the new constitution each township became a separate district. The jns- tices of the peace from 1843 will be found in the his- tory of the several townships.)
March 28, 1796. Jacob Kuntz, Lynn and Towa- mensing.
Jan. 12, 1799. Samuel Everett, Lyn and Towa- mensing.
Feb. 8, 1799. Frederick Kuntz, Lehigh and Towa- mensing.
May 14, 1799. John Weiss, Lynn and Penn.
July 22, 1799. Michael Ohl, Lynn and Penn.
Oct. 24, 1807. John Weiss, Lynn and Penn.
Oct. 24, 1807. Daniel Saeger, Lynn and Penn.
Feb. 9, 1809. John Pryor, District No. 9; Chestnut Hill, Ross, and Towamensing.
Jan. 6, 1818. John Horn, District No. 10; East Penn and Lausanne.
Dee. 5, 1818. George Ziegenfuss, Distriet No. 9; Chestnut Hill, Ross, and Towamensing.
March 19, 1819. Jacob Frantz, District No. 9; Chestnut Hill, Ross, and Towamensing.
March 29, 1820. Jacob Dinkey, Distriet No. 10; East Penn and Lausanne.
May 18, 1821. George Kelchner, District No. 9; Chestnut Hill, Ross, and Towamensing.
Feb. 6, 1822. John Pryor, District No. 10; East Penn and Lausanne.
March 2, 1822. Joseph Lester, District No. 10; East Penn and Lausanne.
Nov. 26, 1823. John Christman, District No. 10; East Penn and Lausanne.
Dec. 12, 1827. Jefferson Buskirk, District No. 10; East Penn, Lausanne, and Mauch Chunk. .
Feb. 28, 1831. Charles F. Henry, District No. 10; Fast Penn, Lansanne, and Mauch Chunk.
Jan. 9. 1828, Isane T. Dodson, District No. 10; East Penn, Lausanne, and Mauch Chumk.
January, 1834. N. B. Penrose, District No. 10; ' December term, 1843. flon. N. B. Eldred president
East Penn, Lausanne, and Mauch Chunk.
CHAPTER V.
THE BENCH AND BAR OF CARBON COUNTY.
Biographical Sketches-The Mollie Maguire Trials.
Lehigh became the Third District. In 1836 Mon- roe County was partly created from Northampton, and that county was attached to the Eleventh District. On April 10, 1844, Carbon County was erected, with Schuylkill and Monroe Counties, into the Twenty-first District, and so remained, until the redistricting of the State by act of Assembly, April 5, 1849, when, with the counties of Monroe, Wayne, and Pike, it became the Twenty-second District. By act of Assembly, April 9, 1874, Carbon and Monroe Counties were erected as the Forty-third District, and so remain.
Judges .- Following is a list of those who have served as president judges of the Carbon County courts :
N. B. Eldred, 1843.
Luther Kidder, October, 1847.
N. B. Eldred, 1849.
N. B. Eldred, October, 1851; resigned spring of 1853.
George R. Barrett, commissioned to fill place till election.
James M. Porter, elveted October, 1853; took his seat Dec. 1, 1853; resigned March, 1855.
George R. Barrett, elected October, 1855.
George R. Barrett, elected October, 1865.
Samuel S. Dreher, 1870.
Samuel S. Dreher, 1880.
Associate Judges .- The following have served as associate judges :
Asa Packer, 1843.
Jacob Dinkey, 1843.
Daniel Heberling, 1848.
Isaae T. Dodson, October, 1851.
William HI. Cool, October, 1851.
Dennis Bauman, October, 1856.
A. G. Brodhead, October, 1861.
Tilghman Amer, October, 1861.
James Hurton, October, 1866.
Herman Hamburger, October, 1866.
John Leisenring, October, 1871.
James Hurton, October, 1871.
Levi Wentz, October, 1872.
Harry E. Packer, October, 1881.
The first term of court for Carbon County was the judge; Asa Packer and Jacob Dinkey, associates. Members of the bar residents of the county were W. HI. Butler, James R. Struthers, O. H. Wheeler, and F. J. Osborn.
W. 11. Butler was a native of Union County, Pa., and located at Mauch Chunk soon after the county was organized, and practiced in its courts until 1860, when he was elected to the Legislature and served as a member from Lehigh and Carbon Counties during the session of 1861. After the adjournment of the Legislature, the war of the Rebellion having broken out, he joined the City Troop of Philadelphia, and
TilE territory now Carbon Connty was under juris- 1 diction of the Third Judicial District, composed of Berks, Northampton, Luzerne, and Northumberland, from April 13, 1791, to 1831. Upon the redistricting : served in it for a year or more. He became a clerk of the State, April 14, 1834, Berks, Northampton, and | in the surveyor-general's office at Harrisburg in 1868,
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and was killed by a railroad accident on the Pennsyl- vania Central Railroad in 1865.
James R. Struthers, a native of Scotland, came to this country with his father's family when a child. The father settled in Philadelphia. James R. studied law in Easton in the office of the late Judge Porter. Ile first practiced at Stroudsburg, and came to Mauch Chunk about 1840 and engaged in teaching school. On the erection of Carbon County he was appointed prosecuting attorney. He was elected to the Legisla- ture in 1845, and again in 1852 and 1853; has fre- quently changed his locality and business; has re- sided in Iowa, in Wisconsin, New Jersey, and other places, sometimes following the profession of law, sometimes publishing a newspaper, at others engaged in farming, etc. He is now residing near Wilkes- barre.
O. H. Wheeler, a native of New York State, studied law in Wilkesbarre, located at Manch Chunk in 1843, and was once or twice elected to the office of prose- euting attorney. Engaging in business outside of his profession, he was unsuccessful, and tried various schemes to retrieve his fortune. Ile wandered from place to place, and was at last accounts at Bradford, MeKean Co., Pa.
HI. B. Burnham removed from Carbondale to Mauch Chunk in 1849, and followed the legal profession at that place until 1861, when he entered the army as lieutenant-colonel of volunteers and served with his regiment for a year or more, when he was detailed for service as judge-advocate on court-martial. He was retained in the regular army after the war, and was appointed judge of the Criminal Court of Richmond, Va. After civil government was fully established he was transferred to the military division of the Platte. He resides at Omaha, Neb., as judge-advocate, with rank of colonel on the staff of the commanding-gen- eral of that division.
J. H. Siewers was born in the island of St. John, West Indies, and was the son of a Moravian mission- ary to the negroes of that island. Mr. Siewers was educated at Nazareth, Northampton Co., Pa .. receiving a good English, German, and classical education, was also conversant with French and Spanish ; engaged in teaching at Wilkesbarre and Kingston; removed to Mauch Chunk in 1843, and for several years followed the profession of teaching; was for several years super- intendent of schools for the county ; was admitted to the bar in 1846, and practiced successfully until his hearing became impaired so as to interfere with his trial of his cases in conrt, when he was elected pro- thonotary and clerk of the courts, which office he held for three terms and then gave his whole atten- tion to the insurance business, in which he had been more or less engaged for several years. He died sud- denly of heart-disease in November, 1880.
Milo M. Dimmick, a native of Pike County, Pa., practiced law at Stroudsburg, Monroe Co., many years ; was elected to Congress in 1848, and re-elected
in 1850 from the district then composed of Carbon, Monroe, Northampton, Pike, and Wayne Counties. Mr. Dimmiek was candidate for president judge in 1852, but was defeated by James M. Porter, of Eas- ton, an independent candidate. In 1853 he removed to Mauch Chunk, and.was an active and successful lawyer until near the time of his death, which oc- curred in November. 1872. At a meeting of the bar of Carbon County November 22d, the following is found in the minutes of that meeting : " Assembled for the first time in the rceollcetion of living members of the bar of Carbon County to commemorate the death of an associate."
Samuel MeLane, a native of Carbon County, was edueated at Lafayette College, Easton ; went to Cali- fornia in 1849; returned about three years later, studied law, and located in Mauch Chunk in 1855; was elected prosecuting attorney in 1856. During the excitement consequent npon the discovery of gold at Pike's Peak he started for that gold-field, subse- quently went to Montana, and returned as the first delegate in Congress from that territory. After his term of service in Congress expired he purchased a plantation in Virginia, where he lived until the time of his death, which occurred in 1880.
Thomas L. Foster, a native of Columbia County, Pa., was admitted to the bar in Wilkesbarre, October, 1844, and soon after located in Maneh Chunk; was superintendent of schools for nine years, meantime keeping up the practice of law. On the organization of the Second National Bank of Mauch Chunk he was elected cashier, and has since devoted his time to the affairs of the bank.
Paul R. Weitzel, a native of Northumberland County, studied law in Easton ; was admitted to the bar of Carbon County in 1857, and beemme a partner of O. Il. Wheeler. He resided in Manch Chunk until 1867, then removed to Williamsport, and was there engaged in the lumber business. In 1871 he removed to Seranton, where he now resides and practices law.
Daniel Kalbfuss, a native of Columbia County, Pa., was admitted to the Carbon County bar in 1859, and soon became distinguished for his eloquence as an advocate. He engaged actively in polities. His style of eloquence making him exceedingly popular as a stump-speaker, his services were called for in every election, He twice stumped the whole State of Pennsylvania, and was frequently called into other States. During the Mollie Maguire trials, in 1875, 1876, and 1877, he took part in the defense of the prisoners with more than his usual zeal. During the latter part of these trials his extravagance of act and speech became noticeable, which increased to absolute mania, necessitating his removal to an asyhun in 1880, where he died Feb. 1, 1881.
Charles Albright, a native of Bucks County, Pa., born Dec. 13, 1830, located in Mauch Chunk in 1856, I having previously lived for a time in Kansas Terri-
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tory and removed on account of the border troubles. On settling in Mauch Chunk he engaged actively in the practice of law, and soon engaged in other busi- ness. On the breaking out of the war of the Re- bellion he became interested in contracts for army | Academy (now University ), either spring or fall, and supplies, particularly in the manufacture of shells. working between times on the farm, thus paying his way until he finally graduated from the Alfred Uni- versity in 1858; taught school the following winter, and then commenced the study of law in the office of Reynolds & Brundridge, at Hornellsville, N. Y., ex- pecting to teach and study alternately. In the sum- mer of 1869 he was invited to become a member of his brother's-Dr. R. Leonard's -- family in Manch Chunk, and pursue the study of law in that place, which he accepted, and entering the office of Struthers & Sites in September, 1859, was admitted to the bar March, 1861. He soon after formed a partnership with IT. B. Burnham. Mr. Burnham entering the army left him in charge of the practice. In 1862 he was elected proseenting attorney, and re-elected in 1865; was elected to the State Legislature to represent the coun- ties of Carbon and Monroe in 1869, and again in 1870. After filling his term of service in the Legislature he attended closely to his profession. He died Jan. 1, 1875, after two days' sickness. He was a man of strict integrity, and enjoyed the confidence of the community to a remarkable degree. In 1862 he entered the army as major of one of the Pennsylvania nine months' regiments (One Hundred and Thirty-second), and was in the battles of Antie- tam, Fredericksburg, and Chancellorsville. On the expiration of his term of service he again volunteered, and was colonel of the Two Hundred and Second Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, and served until the close of the war, having been promoted to briga- dier-general. After the war he resumed the practice of law, continued in the iron business, engaged in mining and preparing slate, manufacture of paint, and mining of coal ; takes a lively interest in polities ; was elected to Congress as congressman at large, in ; 1872, on the Republican ticket; was a candidate for Congress in 1878, in the Eleventh District, and was defeated, after a most exciting campaign, by the Ilon. Robert Klotz. There were four candidates in the field, Gen. Albright coming out second, ninety-five votes behind the successful candidate. He was also one of the organizers of the Second National Bank, and its president. He took a very active and laborious part for the State in the Mollie Maguire trials. He may be said to have carried on business enough to have filled the time of three men, with the usual results, -a sudden breaking down of health, dying after a few weeks' sickness in September, 1880.
John D. Bertolette, a native of Reading, came to Mauch Chunk and entered the law-office of Charles Albright as a student of law in 1860. On the break- ing out of the war he was one of the first to enlist, and was adjutant of the Sixth Regiment Nine Months' Volunteers, Pennsylvania. On the expiration of this term he at once re-enlisted, and served with distinetion through the war, becoming adjutant-general with rank of colonel. Ile was several times severely wounded. After the war was over he resumed the study of law, and was admitted to practice in 1867, and became a partner of his preceptor. He was quartermaster- general on the staff of Governor Hartrantt. He died of consumption in April, 1881.
Stephen E. Sites, a native of Luzerne County, Pa., taught school in Beaver Meadow and afterward in Nesquehoning; was elected prothonotary in 1855; studied law under the direction of (. Il. Wheeler, and was admitted to the bar in 1859, and became a partner of James R. Struthers. The firm was dis- solved in 1862. Mr. Sites was engaged in various sehemes of speenlation, and finally engaged in mer- cantile business, in which he failed. He left for the West, and when last heard from was located some- where in Missouri.
W. B. Leonard was born at Hancock, Delaware Co., N. Y. When a child his father's family moved
to Elm Valley, Allegany Co., N. Y., where the boy was brought up to farming. Developing a taste for learning, he began school-teaching at seventeen years of age, teaching winters, attending a term at Alfred
Francis P. Longstreet, a native of Wayne County, Pa., born 1843 ; died at Lehighton, Carbon Co., Pa., April 4, 1880. He served for a term of nine months in the army ; afterwards moved to Erie, where he studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1873. He left Erie on account of failing health, and located at Le- highton in 1876. He engaged in the practice of law, and following it as closely as his health would per- mit, gained numerous friends, and was highly re- spected by all who knew him.
HI. F. Handy, a native of Broome County, N. Y., was admitted to the bar at Binghamton, N. Y .; re- moved to Manch Chunk in 1863; formed a partner- ship with the late J. II. Simons in 1865. Mr. Simons having been elected prothonotary, Mr. Handy carried on the law business by himself. He removed to the West in 1870, and has since lived in Kansas, Now Mexico, and other places. He is now located at Lansing, Mich.
F. A. Doney, a native of Wayne County, Pa., lo- cated in Manch Chunk in 1869, Ile edited a paper and practiced law for two or three years, then re- moved to Luzerne County, Pa., and now follows preaching.
John C. Dimmick, son of M. M. Dimmick, a native of Monroe County, Pa., studied law with his father, and was admitted to the bar in October, 1869. He practiced law with his father until the death of the latter, then he formed a partnership with his cousin, E. C. Dimmick. He died January, 1875.
Edward C. Dimmick, a native of Wayne County, i Pa., came to Manch Chunk and studied law with his
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