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Nor soldier with a gun come near 'em. "At present we've two hundred houses, All fill'd with loving wives and spouses; But timber, shingles, scantling, boards, The neighborhood great store affords; We'll give you stones all veined with blue,
And thank you when you take them too; But as for bricks, you pay for making, They cost us time and pains in baking; We've carpenters and masons good, As ever work'd in stone or wood; Artists in every kind of work, To build your houses in a jerk.
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We've tailors, saddlers and shoemakers, Printers, Bakers, and good clock makers; Taverns in plenty too abound, And liquors of all sorts are found; Besides all these, there are 'exteriors,' We need not mention our superiors, Both for convenience and delight, To crown the day and 'eke out the night: Then come good Sirs make this your seat Where Nature's choicest bounties meet : The public good prompts this petition, From yours with reverence and submis- "Cives."
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An "Eastern Anecdote," copies of the following Acts of Congress: "An act to Establish an Executive Department, to be denominated the Department of War;" "An act to provide for the Government of the Territory Northwest of the river Ohio;" "An act providing for the Ex- penses which may attend Negotiations or Treaties with the Indian Tribes, and the appointment of Commissioners for man. aging the same, approved by "G. Wash- ington, President ot the United States;" with the following "Advertisement Ex- traordinary," completes the make-up of the paper:
ONE THOUSAND GUINEAS REWARD.
Ran away from the Subscriber. within a few years, his whole estate, consisting of houses, land, &c. They gradually and almost imperceptibly stole away, after being put in motion by the magick art of one Intemperance, who then lived in the family. Any person who will put me in the re-possession of said Estate shall be entitled to the above reward. TOPER.
N. B. All persons are cautioned to be- ware of said Intemperance, who, as I am told, has established several places of rendezvous in almost every town, where numbers of the incautious are daily se- duced.
RECORDS OF BINDNAGLE CHURCH.
VIII. BAPTISMS.
FAMILY OF ADAM DEININGER.
The children of Adam and Rosina Deininger, were:
1. Christina, b. Feb. 17, 1755; sponsors at bap. John Early and wife Regina.
2. Margaret, b. Jan. 4, 1758; sponsors at bap. Michael Heiner (?) and wife Margaret.
3. John Adam, b. Oct. 12, 1760; spon- sors at bap. Casper Dieler (?) and Hock- lander.
4. Michael, b. Nov. 17, 1763; sponsors at bap. Nicholas Brechbill and wife Julianna.
5. Regina, b. April 26, 1766; sponsors at bap. John Early and wife Regina.
6. Susan, b. April 5, 1769; sponsors at bap. John Early and wife Regina.
7. John, b. Jan. 1, 1772; sponsors at bap. John Early and wife Regina.
FAMILY OF NICHOLAS PALM.
The child of Nicholas and Catharine Palm was:
1 John, b. March 2, -; bap. April 14, -; sponsors, John Palm and wife Elizabeth.
FAMILY OF MICHAEL ELI.
The children of Michael and Mary Regina Eli were:
1. Susan, b. Sept. 20, 1789; bap. Sept. 27, 1789; sponsors, Jacob Young and wife Elizabets.
2. Michael, (twin) b. Sept. 20,1789; bap. Sept. 27, 1789; sponsor, Thomas Early.
FAMILY OF DANIEL HUFNAGLE.
The child of Daniel and Christina Hufnagle, was:
1. John Jacob, b. Nov. 26, 1784; bap. Jan 5, 1785; sponsors, John Adam Weber and Elizabeth Muenich.
FAMILY OF PETER NYE.
The child of Peter and Julianna Nye were :
1. Mary Barbara, b. Jan. 17, 1785; bap. March 13, 1785; sponsors Joseph Carmony and wife Eve.
FAMILY OF JACOB KRAEMER
The children of Jacob and Catharine Kraemer were :
1. John-Jacob, b. March 2, 1785; bap. June 12, 1785; sponsors John Zimmer- man and wife Margaret.
2. Peter, b. June 18, 1790; bap. Aug. 29, 1790; sponsors Adam Weber and wife Elizabeth.
FAMILY OF GEORGE WOLFE.
The child of George and Barbara Wolfe was :
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1. John-George, b. Jan. 26, 1785; bap. Sept. 23, 1785; sponsors John Fluger and wife Elizabeth.
FAMILY OF CHRISTOPHER FOX.
The child of Christopher and Susan Margaret Fox was :
1. Christopher, b. May 30, 1785; bap. Aug. 1785; sponsors Jacob Kraemer and wife Anna-Catharine.
FAMILY OF JOHN WOLFE.
The child of John and Elizabeth Wolfe was :
1 Catharine- Elizabeth, b. Jan. 6, 1784; bap. Jan. 11, 1784; sponsors Andrew Braun and wife.
2. Catharine, b. Sept. 16, 1785; bap. Sept. 26, 1785; sponsors Conrad Tielmann and Catharine Wolf.
FAMILY OF PETER NYE.
The family of Peter and Rebecca Nye were :
1. Barbara, b. Oct. 4 1783; bap. Oct. 18. 1783; sponsor Barbara Nye.
2. John, b Jan. 27, 1783; bap. March 27, 1785; sponsors John Nye and wife Catharine.
3. John Peter, b. March 27, 1787; bap. Nov. 18, 1787; sponsors Michael Nye and Barbara Birbnson (?).
4. -. b. - , 1791; bap. -- , 1791; sponsors Adam Biele and wife.
FAMILY OF GOTTLIEB STRUMANN (?).
The child of Gottlieb and Johanna- Augusta Strumann was :
1. John - Michael, b. Dec. 20, 1783; bap. Dec. 25, 1783; sponsors Michael Eli and wife.
FAMILY OF JACOB SEEHALE (?)
The children of Jacob and Susan See- nale, were:
1. Benjamin, b. Nov. 21, 1777; bap. March 4, 1778; sponsors, John Zimmer- man and Margaret Muenich.
2. Catharine, b. June 28, 1779; bap. July 4, 1779; sponsors, John Peter and wife.
3. Elizabeth, b. Oct. 7, 1781; bap. Oct. 20, 1781; sponsors, Daniel Wunderly and wife.
4. Magdalena, b. Nov. 6, 1783; bap. Dec 11, 1783; sponsor, Catharine Muen- ich.
FAMILY OF JOHN KRAEMER.
The child of John and Catharine Kraemer was:
1. John-George, b. Nov. 9, 1787; bap. June 8, 1788; sponsors, John George Muenich and Gredchen Brechbill.
FAMILY OF CHRISTIAN BAMBERGER.
The children of Christian Bamberger and his wife Magdalena, were:
1. Magdalena, b. Jan. 12, 1769; bap. Jan. 28, 1769.
2. John, b. Feb. 26, 1772; bap. March 3, 1772.
3. Christina, b. Jan. 8, 1774; bap. Jan. 24, 1774
4 Michael, b. Jan. 1, 1776; bap. Jan. 30, 1776 5. Anna, b. Jan. 2, 1778; bap. Jan. 2, 1778. 6. Catharine, b. March 17, 1779; bap. March 30, 1779.
7. William, b. Feb. 8, 1783; bap. March 30, 1783.
FAMILY OF ADAM BERGER.
The children of Adam Berger and wife were:
1. George, b. May 5, 1790; bap. June 27, 1790; sponsors, George and Catharine Sprecher
2. Magdalena, b. Jan. 1, 1792; bap. an . 8, 1792; sponsors, John Oehrlie and ife.
FAMILY OF MICHAEL BRAUN.
The child of Michael and Christina Braun was:
1. Anna Catharine, b. Jan. 14, 1784; bap. March 7, 1784.
FAMILY OF JACOB BOLZ.
The child of Jacob Bolz and wife Eliz- abeth was:
1. Elizabeth, b. Jan. 14, 1784; bap March 7, 1784; sponsors John Bolz and Christina Fernsler.
FAMILY OF ANDREW KILLINGER.
The child of Andrew and Elizabeth Killinger was:
1. John Frederick, b. March 22, 1784; bap. Sept. 16, 1784; sponsors Frederick and Dorothea Bickle.
FAMILY OF FREDERICK SCHELL.
The child of Frederick and Dorothea Schell was:
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1. John Henry, b. March 13,1784; bap. May 7, 1784; sponsors Martin and Eliz. abeth Bindnagle.
FAMILY OF ADAM WERT.
The child of Adam and Elizabeth Wert was:
1. Mary Elizabeth, b. May 8, 1784; bap. May 29, 1784; sponsors Jolin and Anna Margaret Snoke, jr.
FAMILY OF JACOB YOUNG.
The child of Jacob and Magdalena Young was:
1. John, b. May 15, 1784; bap. June 1, 1784; sponsors John Reichert and wife Elizabeth.
FAMILY OF MICHAEL NOLAND.
The children of Michael and Rebecca Noland were:
1. Elizabeth, b. Aug. 30, 1782; bap. Sept. 26, 1782.
2. Henry, b. June 21, 1784; bap. Sept. 26, 1784; sponsors John and Elizabeth Early.
FAMILY OF PHILIP JOHNS.
The children of Philip Johns were:
1. Jacob, b. Sept. 25, 1791; bap. Oct. 30, 1791; sponsors Johne Thuhe (?) and wife.
2. Christina, b. Sept. 27, 1793; bap. Oct. 7. 1793; sponsors Conrad Maeyer and wife.
FAMILY OF GEORGE SPRECHER.
The child of George Sprecher was:
1. Margaret, b. Jan. 26, 1791; bap. March 6,1791; sponsor Margaret Sprecher.
The foregoing completes the baptismal record. Later and other records ought to be in existence.
NOTES AND QUERIES.
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CXXIV.
ORIGINAL LAND WARRANT .- Col. Henry McCormick, of Harrisburg, has the orig inal patent to the land now constituting his fine summer residence on the Yellow Breeches, near Williams' Grove. It bears date 1734, and what is remarkable is that the boundaries of the farm to day are just what they were at that time. There are
not many farms surveyed and patented as early as this one, that have preserved their original acres, even in the conserva- tive agricultural element of Cumberland county. One or two in Dauphin and one or two in Lebanon, are all we know of in this vicinity. H.
" DEUTSCH- AMERIKANISCHES MAGA . ZINE " is the title of the first number of a quarterly periodical edited by that ex- cellent German- American scholar and antiquary, H. A. Ratterman, E-q, of Cincinnati, Ohio. We frequently regret that the native tongue of our ancestors closes tlie door to much that is valuable in our historical pursuits, through our ina - bility to grapple with that languauge which, next to the English, is spoken all over the world. This want possibly pre. vents us from realizing how rich this new magazine, devoted to the various branches of literature, may be, and we must rely, therefore, upon the estimate of our friends who are familiar with the German lan- guage. The contents of it are so varied, and of such value aud interest that we may safely -say, no German-American periodical ever equaled it. Within its closely printed 164 octavo pages are to be found articles of the highest type of excellence in poetry, biography, his- tory, etc .- and such is its sterling liter- ary character, that we hope to see it adopted as a reader in the advanced classes where the German language is taught in our schools. Especially is it deserving of this honor. The cditor is one of the oldest German scholars in America, and the superiority of this ini- tial number of the magazine is only & prelude of the many excellencies in Ger- man American literature to follow.
SOME GENEALOGICAL NOTES.
BOWMAN.
Thomas Bowman, of Derry, d. Janu- ary, 1763, leaving a wife Mary, who was a daughter of Samuel Campbell, and issue:
i. HUGH.
ii. JEAN.
iii. ELIZABETH.
iv. JOHN.
Thomas Hall was a legatee. The wit-
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nesses to the will were Hugh Campbell, John Campbell aud John Clark.
BOYD.
Samuel Boyd, of Drumore township, Lancaster county, d. January, 1770, leav- ing children:
i JOHN; and had a son Samuel.
ii. SAMUEL; d prior to his father, and left Joseph, Samuel, William and Mar- garet.
iii. MARGARET; m. and had Samuel and Matthew.
iv. ELIZABETH
The executors were William Richey, jr., and John Boyd.
BAKER
Joshua Baker, gunsmith of the town of Lancaster, d. June, 1754, leaving a wife Rebecca and children:
i. MARY; m. Rev. John Elder.
ii. JOSHUA.
iii. ANN; m. - Dougherty.
iv ELEANOR; In. Woods.
His execut were the wife, Rev. George Craig and Robert Thompson.
BOHRE.
Matthew Bohre, of Hanover, d. Janu ary, 1782, leaving a wife Mary Elizabeth, and six children besides the following: i. NICHOLAS, was executor of his father's estate.
CUNNINGHAM.
Sa quel Cunningham, of Mount Joy township, Lancaster county, d. July, 1777, leaving a wife Jannett and children : i. SAMUEL. ii. SARAH; m Porterfield.
iii. MARTHA; m. - - Barr.
iv. JAMES. v. [a dat. ]; m. Campbell, and had Hannah.
vi. ROBERT.
Robert, the youngest child, was execu. tor.
COULTER
James Coulter (resided west of the Sus- quebanna) d. January 1735-6, leaving a wife Mary, and children :
i. SAMUEL.
ii. SARAH
In his will he refers to his brother,
Joseph Coulter, "at Bainbridge in the kingdom of Ireland."
CAMPBELL,
George Campbell, on March 26, 1759, "sergeant of Capt. John Singleton's com- pany, now in the Hospital at Fort Ligo- nier," made a will, bequeathing his estate to his mother, Eleanor Campbell, of Baltimore What Campbell family was this ?
COOK.
James Cook, of Donegal township, Lancaster county, d. in October, 1774, leaving a wife Mary and children:
i. JAMES.
ii. JOHN.
iii. DAVID.
iv. DORCAS. v. MARGARET.
The executors were his wife and brother David Cook.
DEHUFF.
John DeHuft, of the town of Lancaster, d. August, 1754, leaving a wife Catharine, who was executor of the estate, and chil- dren as follows:
i. JOHN.
ii. ABRAHAM.
iii. SUSANNA.
iv. HENRY.
v. MATTHIAS.
JOHN BANNISTER GIBSON.
Sketch of an Eminent Pennsylvanla Jurist.
[The following interesting sketch of Chief Justice Gibson is from the pen of A. Brady Sharpe, Esq , of Carlisle, and pub- lished in the Sentinel several months ago. At the suggestion of a number of the members of the Bar of this city who knew Judge Gibson intimately and well, we publish this just estimate of the ser- vices of that greatest legal mind which ever ador ed the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. ]
JOHN BANNISTERGIBSON was of Seotch- Irish lineage, one of three sons of George Gibson, of Shermansdale, then in Cum- berland and now in Perry county, who was a soldier of the Revolution, and had
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attained the rank of Colonel, when he fell at St. Clair's defeat in 1791. His mother was Ann West, a daughter of Francis West, one of the early Pro- vinrial justices of Cumberland county . He was born on the 8th of November, 1780, died on the 2d of May, 1853, and his bones await the resurrection beneath the marble shalt, in the old graveyard in Carlisle, on which is inscribed the fol- lowing from the pen of his devoted friend, the late Judge Black :
In the various Knowledge which forms the perlect SCHOLAR, He had no Superior. Independent, upright and able, He had all the highest qualities of a great JUDGE. In the difficult science of Jurisprudence He mastered every Department, Discussed almost every question, and Touched no subject which he did not adorn. He won in early manhood And retained to the close of a long life, The Affection of his brethren on the BENCH. The RESPECT of the BAR,
And the confidence of the people.
His brothers were General George Gib- son and Francis West Gibson, Esq , both of whom survived him. The latter was for some years, when quite an aged man, a resident of Carlisle, but returned to the oid homestead, where they were all born and reared, and died there. Gen. George Gibson was for many years an officer of the U. S. army. He was an intimate per- sonal friend of President Jackson, with whom he served in the army in the war of 1812. On the 18th of April, 1818, he was appointed Commissary-General of Subsistence, with the rank of Colonel, and continued at the head of this Depart- ment until the 20th of Fetemher, 1861, when he died with the rank of Brevet Major General U S. Army, after having served in it with honorable distinction for over fortv three years.
John Bannister Gibson entered Dickin- son College, and graduated from it dur- ing the presidency of that distinguished scholar, Charles Neshitt, D. D., studied law with Hon. Thomas Dunean, then an eminent lawyer and afterwards an asso- ciate member of the Supreme Court with
him, and was admitted to the bar in 1803. After opening an office in Carlisle, he went to Beaver county and not succeed- ing as well as he expected, removed to Hagerstown, Md, but being still dis- satisfied returned to Carlisle and settled down to the practice of his profession in 1805 In 1810 he was elected to the House ofRepresentatives, and whilst there, was a member of a commit'ee that reported an address to Governor Snyder for the removal of Judge Cooper, then President Judge of the eighth Judicial district of this State, but he put on record a strong protest against the doctrines contained in the address, and afterwards became an intimate friend of Doctor Cooper who at a later period was pro- fessor of chemistry at Dickinson College, and subsequently at the University of Pennsylvania, and ultimately hecame President of Columbia College, South Carolina.
In 1812 he was appointed President Judge of the eleventh Judicial District and in 1816 an Associate Judge of the Supreme court, and upon the death of Chief Justice Tilghman in 1827, he was appointed Chief Justice, which position be held up to 1851, when the Judiciary became elective, and the people had wis- dom enough to retain him in the place he had filled so wel !. He was for twenty- four Chief Justice and thirteen years an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, and thus spent more than half of his life on that bench, his opinions running through seventy volumes of our reports. He was appointed to it originally, and afterwards its Chief Justice by a Demo- cratic Governor of the State. This was under the Constitution of 1790 Under that of 1838 he was reappointed Chief Justice by a Whig Governor, and when the Judiciary system was again changed he was elected to the Supreme Bench after a nomination by a Democratic con- vention, and "it is said, he narrowly es- caped what might have been a dangerous distinction; a nomination on both of the opposing tickets."
In regard to his personal characteris- tics very little more is known here than in other portions of the State. His du- ties kept him most of his time away from Cariisle. His habits were domestic, and
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the little while he had here was spent with his family, and even then he was generally engaged writing opinions as. signed to him, at the term that had ended. All that was seen of him here in the lat- ter years of his life outside of his imme- diate family, and a few personal friends, was witnessed in his passing from his dwelling to the offices of members of the bar, who had books of reference that he wanted to look into.
But he was one to be remembered when seen. He was over six feet in height. His frame was large and his fig- ure ungainly, His gait was slow and he seldom gave heed to what was happening around him or who was passing by. He was careless of his appearance, as the neck handkerchief, in the portrait we have, both by its color and tie will illus- trate. But all the same, there was that about him which attraeted the immediate attention of any intelligent person that met or passed him on the street. What this was is hard to detine, unless there is in our raee an intuitive perception of and deference toward great intelleet and gen- ius in men, as there certainly is toward beauty and virtue in women.
One who knew him in his prime said of him "that his face was eminently hand- some and full of intellect and benevolence -that his manners were frank and simple and that he was free from affectation or pretension of any sort." Those who saw him only in advanced life remember his face as strong rather than handsome, but through the wrinkles discerned traces of the superb complexion which he trans- mitted to his descendants. That he was free from affectation is hardly reconeila- ble with the fact that he cut short a full head of dark brown hair and covered it with a wig after he went on the bench, and continued to wear it to the last, al- though he had beneath it at death a full head of gray hair; and that he was with . out pretension of any sort, with this; that he commences his will dated the 17th of January, 1852, thus: "I, John Bannister Gibson, the last of the Chief Justices under the Constitution of 1790 "
His attainments outside of his profes- sion were varied and considerable. He had a natural talent for music, and culti- vated it, and was considered a connois-
seur of music and art. He was well read in the British classics, fond of the English drama, and familiar with the dramatists of the Restoration; but his fame will ever be associated with the highest judicial tribunal of our, State where he reigned supreme.
Judge Black in response to the motion of Hon. Thaddeus Stevens, at the first meeting of the court after his death, among other things said: "Abroad he has for very many years been thought the great glory of his native State." This is a high encomium, and yet In con- firmation of it a distinguished citizen of our State in the lifetime of Judge Gibson stated that he was in Westminster Hall giving atttention to an argument, when one of the counsel cited an American au. thority, without giving the name of the volume or case, when the Chief Justice said at once. "That is by Chief Justice Gibson, of Pennsylvania. His opinions are considered of great weight in this Court."
Perhaps as fine a portrayal of the char- acteristics of one great mind by another as can readily be found is that by Black of Gibson in the response above referred to. We have no space for more of it than the following, and it is given not because it is finer than other portions which re. late more particularly to his character as a judge, but because it refers to qualities of head and heart alike admired by lawyer and layman. "He was of all men the
most devoted and earnest lover of truth for its own sake. When sub. sequent reflection convinced him that he bad been wrong, he took the first opportunity to acknowledge it. He was often the earliest to discover his own mistakes, as well as the foremost to cor- rect them. He was inflexibly honest .. The judicial ermine was as unspotted when he laid it aside for the habiliments of tbe grave, as it was when he first assumed it. I do not mcan to award him merely that common place integrity which it is no honor to have but simply a disgrace to want. He was not only incorruptible, but scrupulously, deli cately, conscientiously free from all willful wrong, either in thought, word or deed.
"Next, after his wonderful intellectual
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endowments, the benevolence of his heart was the most marked feature of his char- acter. He was a most genial spirit, affec- tionate and kind to his friends, and mag- nanimous to his enemies. Benefits re- ceived by him were engraved on his memory as on a tablet of brass, injuries were written in sand. He never let the sun go down upon his wrath. A little dash of bitterness in his nature would, perhaps, have given a more consistent tone to his character, and greater activity to his mind. He lacked the quality which Dr. Johnson admired. Fie was not a good hater."
What chance of success he would have in a canvass for the judgesbip at the pres- ent day, in the way it is now conducted in some localities, it is not hard to con. jecture. You could hardly conceive of him moving round with 12th Sargeant and Rawle under his arm to prove to a jacobinical democracy that he held that the supreme court had no right to pro- nouncean Act of Assembly void although it was a manifest breach of constitution, or with 10th Barr to show to another class of constituents, that husbands may make valid conditions in restraint of mar- riage in devises of real estate; and yet we have not been without candidates for judicial office who were ready to give their opinions on ques- tions that were to be judicially deter- mined by them with the same freedom that a peddler would his about his wares. He knew little about the primaries. He could not have learned how to run a convention. He was ignorant of the methods to control the floating vote. He was not a man of the people and had no skill in making friends in the popular sense of the word. So great was his want in this respect that he lost the vote of the representatives of this county, when he was nominated for elec- tion in 1851, although one of the delegates was a member of the bar of high standing and character, whose in' structions were not to favor his nomina - tion. At that time one of those most opposed to him was Judge Black, who had taken a dislike to him because he thought Judge Gibson had failed to give him that recognition which he knew he was entitled to claim. This only tended
to endear them to each other when Black learned that he was a man of modesty, absent-minded and without the ability to remember faccs, and forgetful of injustice toward himself.
In that old graveyard, but a few paces from him, sleeps Dr. Nisbet, to whom he was devotedly attached when a young man, whose memory he always revered. He it was who designed and wrote the Latin inscription on the monument erected to the memory of the learned Scotchman that gave Dickinson College its first distinction. Near to him lies Judge Duncan, with whom he studied law, his townsman, kinsman, and
some years his associate on for
the supreme bench ; and ncar by also is Judge Brackenridge, his imme- diate predecessor in the same court, who took notice of him when an awkward country boy attending college, invited him to bis house, and opened to him the treasures of the finest library bere at that day. The delights of this association he mentioned often in his family, and spoke of Brackenridge with tenderness to the end of his days. James Ross lies there, author of the Latin grammar, a fine classical scholar and the instructor of many an ingenuous youth ; and there, too, lies Doctor Alfred Foster facile princeps of a brilliant circle that has passed away.
In that sacred ground, within a radius of a hundred yards, lie David Watts, Samuel Alexander, S. Dunlap Adair, Hugh Gaullagher, Wm. M. Biddle, Hon. John Reed, Hon. James H. Granam, all of whom argued cases before him, and some of them had their opinions passed on by him; and there, too, are still others dis- tinguished in war and peace, in Church and State, and in every walk in life; but of them all few have left as stainless and none as great a name.
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