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April, 1871. May, 1876. December, 1807. June, 1831. August, 1869.
September, 1900.
December, 1870.
McFarland, Samuel
December, 1827. October, 1878.
MCFARLAND, JOSEPH FULTON McGiffin, Thomas
February, 1807.
McGiffin, Thomas
February, 1841.
McGiffin, George W.
November, 1846.
McGiffin, James Q.
June, 1882. August, 1844.
McIlvaine, R. F.
August, 1844.
McIlvaine, John A. (P. J.)
August, 1867.
MCILVAINE, WINFIELD
June, 1883.
MeIlvaine, Charles G.
February, 1887.
MCILVAINE, WM. ALEXANDER HAMILTON October, 1898.
McKee, John McKeehan, David
November, 1847.
McKennan, Thos. McKean Thompson October, 1814.
McKennan, James W.
June, 1825.
McKennan, William
June, 1837.
McKennan, John D.
October, 1879.
McKennan, William, Jr.
August, 1886.
McMahon, Peter B.
August, 1855.
Mc Williams, John W.
December, 1867.
Naylor, Charles NEASE, JAMES SEBASTIAN Nesbit, Thomas Neville, Morgan Nicholls, John
February, 1854. September, 1888. July, 1797. December, 1808. May, 1854.
December, 1792.
McIlvaine, G. W.
February, 1843. August, 1872.
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Nickerson, W. M. Noble, Joseph T. Noble, Thomas C.
August, 1868. June, 1881. October, 1891.
Oliphant, Ethelbert P.
December, 1829.
Oliver, George H.
November, 1848.
Oliver, Addison
February, 1857.
Oliver, Franklin Ezra
May, 1870.
Oliver, John Milton
May, 1870.
O'Malley, John F.
May, 1877.
Owens, William, Jr.
May, 1867.
PARKER, WILLIAM SANDERS
March, 1882.
PARKINSON, ROBERT WILEY
June, 1897.
Patterson, David F.
May, 1865.
Patterson, R. B.
December, 1867.
Patterson, I. N.
February, 1878.
PATTERSON, JOSIAH M.
June, 1882.
Patton, Benjamin
March, 1833.
Patton, William J.
November, 1861.
Paull, George
May, 1806.
Paxton, Wilson N.
May, 1860.
Peare, George A.
November, 1853.
Penny, John P.
November, 1846.
Pentecost, Joseph
September, 1792.
Pentecost, Dorsey B.
July, 1823.
Pentecost, James Ross
November, 1823.
Pepper, Samuel G.
November, 1850.
Perrin, W. McBride
October, 1878.
Pierson, John J.
May, 1848.
Piper, James
March, 1821.
Playford, William H. Porter, John
August, 1805.
Porter, Thomas W.
February, 1849.
Purman, Andrew A.
February, 1860.
Purviance, Henry
March, 1790.
Purviance, John, Jr.
March, 1879.
February, 1805.
ALPHABETICAL LIST OF ATTORNEYS.
333
Quail, Huston
May, 1851.
Ralph, John
March, 1790.
Reardon, William
March, 1879.
Redick, David
December, 1782.
Redick, Jonathan
November, 1803.
Redick, David
December, 1810.
Reed, David
May, 1846.
REHN, CLARENCE
November, 1897.
Richardson, Nathaniel
February, 1873.
Riggle, Clark
August, 1870.
Ritchie, A. S.
February, 1854.
Roberts, Lewis
February, 1840.
Rodgers, Thomas L.
June, 1824.
Rodgers, John L.
June, 1882.
Rogers, H. G.
November, 1860.
Rogers, Hugh A. Roote, Ephraim
September, 1819.
Ross, James
Ross, Hugh
Runyan, Hill
Ruple, John G.
RUPLE, CHARLES MAYES
May, 1866.
Rutan, James S.
May, 1863.
Ruth, James R.
May, 1861.
October, 1781. September, 1791. June, 1815.
December, 1869.
September, 1791. January, 1901. June, 1828. November, 1853. November, 1798. June, 1822. March, 1817.
Sample, David Sample, Steel Sampson, J. Philpot C.
Sayer, James P.
Scott, Thomas SCOTT, OLIVER S. Selden, George Semmes, Samuel M. Semple, Cunningham, Seney, Joshua Shaler, Charles
January, 1881.
1784. September, 1792. February, 1805. April, 1861.
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COURTS OF JUSTICE, BENCH, AND BAR.
Shannon, Joseph
Shannon, John
Shannon, James
December, 1819.
Shields, Thomas L.
October, 1831. June, 1867.
Shiras, George, Jr.
Simonson, John
January, 1796.
Simonson, James C.
February, 1824.
Slagle, Jacob F.
November, 1852. January, 1782.
Smith, Thomas
Smith, Jonathan B.
March, 1823.
Smith, David S.
August, 1865.
Smith, Louis R.
April, 1878.
Sprowls, James M.
March, 1877.
SPROWLS, ALBERT SQUIRES
October, 1879.
St. Clair, Daniel
September, 1789.
St. Clair, Arthur
September, 1794.
Steen, Isaiah
February, 1840.
STERRETT, DAVID
April, 1888.
Sterrett, Charles C.
November, 1895.
Stevenson, Matthew H.
December, 1885.
Stewart, Benjamin S.
June, 1829.
Stewart, William G.
September, 1880.
Stillwagen, W. C.
August, 1877.
Stockdale, John M.
May, 1851.
Stockton, Daniel M.
Stokeley, Samuel
September, 1816.
Stokes, William A.
May, 1858.
Strean, Robert F.
August, 1854.
Streator, James B. Ruple
October, 1877.
Swartzwelder, Marshal
February, 1865.
Swearingen, Joseph M.
June, 1881.
Sweitzer, J. Bowman
November, 1845.
Tarr, John Tarr, Eugene Taylor, James Taylor, Samuel O.
October, 1808. November, 1863.
September, 1806. November, 1863.
July, 1796. October, 1808.
August, 1849.
ALPHABETICAL LIST OF ATTORNEYS.
335
Taylor, James Franklin (A. L. J.) Templeton, William F.
October, 1879. May, 1860.
December, 1892.
December, 1782.
June, 1824. May, 1868.
June, 1897.
December, 1825.
May, 1878.
UNDERWOOD, OWEN CLARK
October, 1894.
Vallandigham, George VANCE, WILLISON K.
February, 1899.
VANKIRK, HARVEY JOHNSON
February, 1851.
Vanvoorhis, Isaac S.
February, 1876.
Veech, James
January, 1834.
Waddle, G. W. G.
February, 1872.
Walker, Stephen D.
June, 1819.
Walker, David
December, 1832.
WARNE, W. PARKISON
May, 1890.
WARNE, BOYD EMERY
November, 1895.
Watson, George, Watson, James
June, 1824. October, 1831.
Watson, John, Jr.
August, 1842.
Watson, David T. Watson, William M.
July, 1866.
Waugh, William Waugh, John H.
November, 1822.
Weigley, Joseph
October, 1810.
Weills, John S. C.
Weir, Joseph K. White, John White, Thomas Ustice White, J. W. F. White, Samuel F.
May, 1866. November, 1895. October, 1808. December, 1823.
May, 1844. May, 1864.
TEMPLETON, ALEXANDER MURDOCH Thompson, George Todd, James TODD, ALEXANDER MARTYN
TOMBAUGH, BYRON E.
Tomlinson, Henry B. Trainer, J. H. S.
April, 1788.
Angust, 1878. June, 1818.
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White, William H.
April, 1874.
Whitehill, Robert
October, 1797.
Wiley, John Wishart
August, 1867.
WILEY, JAMES ACHESON
August, 1886.
March, 1808.
Wilkins, William Wilkins, Charles
July, 1808.
Williams, Ebenezer, Jr.
May, 1867.
WILLIAMS, HARRY LINN
March, 1901.
Wilson, Alexander
June, 1826.
Wilson, William
May, 1844.
Wilson, David Shields
August, 1849.
WILSON, ALEXANDER
February, 1853.
Wilson, Samuel B.
May, 1863.
Wilson, A. Wylie
November, 1863.
Winge, Isaiah
September, 1820.
Wise, Uriah W.
February, 1844.
Withey, Griffith J.
July, 1830.
Wolf, Wesley
August, 1863.
Wood, J. G.
December, 1867.
Woods, John
December, 1783.
Woods, Henry
September, 1794.
Woods, Robert
August, 1840.
WOODS, FRANCIS HENRY
December, 1901.
Wright, John C.
March, 1813.
Wright, William F.
January, 1877.
Young, John
June, 1798.
CONCLUSION.
As would at once be inferred from the foregoing alpha- betical list of attorneys, as well as from the regular roll, ante, page 262, very many of the admissions were members of the bar from other counties, engaged in special cases heard and admitted pro hac vice, or in attendance casually and admitted on motion as a matter of courtesy; nevertheless, out of that long list quite a large number were citizens of our own county,
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studied in the offices of our own lawyers, and practiced all their professional lives at our own bar; and many became dis- tinguished, not only as very able lawyers, but in public posi- tions to which their abilities and energies carried them.
Of late years it has not been the custom to enter of rec- ord admissions for special cases or by courtesy, and therefore our roll of attorneys admitted since 1882 does not contain so many names, perhaps, as the lists for like periods in the former days. Still, it would seem that the supply of lawyers is sufficient for the demand, at least for the present; and we sometimes hear it said that the reputation of our bar of the olden time is still maintained. This we leave to others. But we must note, and here is the fact referred to on a previous page (261), that among the more than eighty members com- posing our bar at present, there is at this date, the last month of the first year of the twentieth century, not one of them who indulges to excess in the use of intoxicating liquors, and almost all of them are total abstainers. This, doubtless, could not have been said of the bar of 1801, when the ashes of the Whiskey Insurrection were yet warm; shall it be said of the bar of December, 2001 ?
As it has been seen, our entire roll embraces many names, perhaps more than six hundred in all. When certain names are mentioned that were held by lawyers who practiced at the beginning of the last century, we know at once who are meant by them, for their prominence in our legal and political history has kept their names familiar to us. The names of others, however, are kept before us only by the minutes of their ad- missions, by the entries of their appearances to causes in which they were engaged, and their signatures to pleadings and motions prepared by them in the far-off days of the past, to be met with as we turn over the old dockets or look into the old files. Yet all the same it should be remembered that these names may have been borne by men whose real worth was not less than that of their better known con- temporaries.
Looking back over the broad field of one hundred and
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twenty years of our bar, from the point in life on which we stand, we note that time and death have taken from our sight such a vast number of men who in their early youth and later lives traveled the same road we travel ourselves; and we know that, for those who are yet so well known to us by name and memory, it was the work they did that made them so. "There is another way of stating the universal law of death, which is also part of the universal law of life. The man who works, who does great deeds, in the end dies as surely as the veriest idler who cumbers the earth's surface, but he leaves behind him the great fact that he has done his work well." So said Vice-President Roosevelt at Minneapolis, on Septem- ber 2, 1901, four days before the bullet of a self-confessed outlaw struck his chief and made the speaker within one week thereafter the President of the United States.
Still we cannot or do not all become great, whatever our walk in life. With many in the practice of law, as it is with many in the other learned professions, there is enough of satisfaction and content in good, honest, hard work, well done under the stimulus of high ideals of duty and oppor- tunity, even without the honor of a remembered name. Real worth, as measured by an ideal standard, is very often care- less of glory; and seldom gets it, but cares not. With such the head rests just as easy without the crown. And of course there are lawyers and lawyers. Some emulate Quirk, Gammon & Snap; others do not. Some get rich; some stay poor. Some walk upou the mountain-tops; others find their paths in the quiet valleys, and there is rest for them there; and these say:
"A prince can make a belted knight, A marquis, duke, an' a' that, But an honest man's aboon his might - Guid faith, he mauna fa' that! For a' that, an' a' that, Their dignities, an' a' that,
The pith o' sense an' pride o' worth Are higher rank than a' that.
"WE REST." CITIZENS' WATER CO.'S RESERVOIR. [Half-tone by Bragdon, from photograph by Mr. C. A. Wales, of Beaver Refining Co.]
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"Then let us pray that come it may, As come it will for a' that, That sense an' worth o'er a' the earth Shall bear the gree, an' a' that! For a' that, an' a' that, It's comin' yet for a' that, That man to man the warld o'er, Shall brithers be for a' that!"
Who, at the end of the century now in its babyhood, will add a supplement to this brief history of our judicial system, our courts of justice, and our court-houses, supplying our omissions, correcting all our mistakes, and continuing our record with those who shall follow us? Whoever he may be, we leave for him our very best regards; and with a glass uplifted- we do not count this-we say to him and his, "Here's to your good healths, and the healths of your families; and may you live long and prosper!" We rest.
INDEX.
For Portraits and Illustrations, see Table of Contents.
A
Account of the commissioners for the year 1860, 79; for the year 1900, 234.
Acheson, Alexander W., ninth president judge, commissioned in 1866, 61; sketch of, 62.
Acheson, Captain David, In Memoriam, 63. Acreage of coal separately assessed in Wash- ington County in 1900, 115.
Addison, Alexander, first president judge un- der constitution of 1790, commissioned August 22, 1791, 39 ; sketch of, in Scotland, 40 ; as a Presbyterian minister in Washing- ton County, 42; impeachment of, 43 ; death of, In 1807, and will, 44; inscription on tombstone by James Ross, 45; widow and family remove to Washington, 45; de- scendants, 46; admitted to Roll of At- torneys 1787, 265.
Addison, Alexander, son of Hon. Alexander Addison, P. J., admitted to Roll of At- torneys 1820, 277.
Additional law judges authorized for Wash- ington County in 1895, 62, 66; list of, from 1895, 302.
Addresses on dedication of court-house of 1900, Dr. Theo. Bland Noss, introductory, 158; prayer by Rev. Frank Fish, 160; Mr. J. Murray Clark, presentation address, 162; response by Mr. J. Wiley Day, 169; response hy Mr. D. S. Fulton, 171; re- sponse by Mr. James S. Buchanan, 174; response hy Hon. J. F. Taylor, A. L. J., 177 ; response by Mr. Alexander Wilson, 180; history of the erection of the court- house of 1900, by Mr. James I. Brownson, 182; dedicatory address by Mr. Boyd Crumrine, 204 ; prayer of benediction, hy Rev. Father John Faughnan, 221.
Aged citizens of Washington Borough in 1840, 74.
Allegheny County, part taken from Wash- ington County In 1788, 39; court-house and jail, description and cost of, 101. Allison James, associate judge, 39. Alphabetical list of attorneys from 1781, 321. American Architecture, Frederle Harrison on, 143.
Amspoker, Mr. Samuel, recording secretary of Washington Bar Association in 1900, 253. Animals, wild, in Western Pennsylvania, 2. Architect of court-house of 1900, F. J. Oster- ling selected, 87, 89, 189.
Architecture, American, Frederic Harrison on, 143.
Armstrong, John, a grantee of the public square, in trust for a court-house and prison, 216.
Ashhrook, James, admitted to roll of at- torneys, 1798, 268.
Assessment of coal properties separately from surface in 1900, 114.
Associate Judges, "not fewer than three nor more than four," under constitution of 1790, 38; reduced to two in number by the act of 1806, 49; aholished by the con- stitution of 1874, 62; last of, Dr. T. W. Bradley and John Scott, 62; "one hundred learned Thehans on the bench, one judge and two zeros," 62; first commissioned, 215; list of from 1781, 302.
Attorneys practicing in second court-house prior to 1840, 30, 31, 72 ; roll of admissions, 1781-1901, 261; alphabetical list of admis- sions from 1781-1901, 321.
Auditors' Report on the commissioners' ac- count for the year 1860, 79; for the year 1900, 234.
B
Baird, Dr. Absolom, 1.
Baird, Lieutenant John, ancestor of the Baird family, killed at battle of Grant's Hill, 1. Baird, Thomas H., third president judge under the constitution of 1790, commis- sioned in 1818, sketch and descendants of, 51 ; admitted to Roll of Attorneys, 1808, 272.
Baird, Thomas H., jr. admitted to Roll of At- torneys 1846, sketch of, 287.
Balrd, William, admitted to Roll of Attorneys 1812, sketch of, 273.
BaIrd, William, son of William Baird (1812), admitted to Roll of Attorneys in 1849, 288. Bassettown, or Washington, laid out by David Hoge, October 13, 1781, 216.
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Bears, buffaloes, and other wild animals in Western Pennsylvania, 2.
Beaver County, part taken from Washington County in 1800, 39.
Bedford County formed and western limits of, 208; its two townships, Pitt and Springhill, in the present Washington County, 209 ; familiar names in the lists of taxables, 209.
Beginning, In the, 1.
Bell, in old court-house steeple, and what be- came of it, 26, 27, 78.
Bids for the county bonds to be issued for the building of the court-house of 1900, etc., opened, 194.
Birch v. McMillan, tried in the Circuit Court at Washington, reviewed by the Supreme Court, and reported as McMillan v. Birch, 1 Binn. 178, 47.
Black & Boyd, contractors for electric fixtures for court-house of 1900, 202.
Blaine, James G., as a college student and as a statesman, tribute to, 164.
Bonds to be issued for the building of the court-house of 1900, bids for opened, 194.
Boundary controversy between Pennsylvania and Virginia, 4, 13, 211-214.
Boquet's expeditions, 1.
Boquet's block-house, in care of the Daugh- ters of the Revolution, 1.
Box in corner-stone of court-house of 1842, contents of, 69; in corner-stone of court- house of 1900, 121.
Brackenridge, H. M. (H.), admitted to Roll of Attorneys 1781, sketch of, 262.
Bradford, David, admitted to Roll of At- torneys 1782, sketch of, 263.
Bradley, Dr. Thomas W., associate judge, 61 ; one of the last associate judges, 62.
Brady, John S., admitted to Roll of Attorneys 1817, sketch of, 275.
Brown v. Brown, an issue devisavit vel non, 256.
Brownson, Mr. James I., history of the erec- tion of the court-house of 1900, 182; notice of the former court-houses, 182; necessity for the new court-house, 183, 184; institu- tion of proceedings for the erection of, 184, 185; actiou of two grand juries, and order of the court thereon, 185, 186; neces- sity for additional ground, and the his- tory and removal of the old Town Hall, 187 ; choice of architect, F. J. Osterling, 189; still more ground necessary, and condemnation thereof from the estate of James W. Kuntz, deceased, 189, 190; sale of the old bulldings to William Hockley, and their removal, 191; temporary place for holding court, in the old Town Hall in its new location on the Todd lot, 192;
contract prices for the different work of the new buildings, 192 ; security required from contractors, 193; bids for the county bonds to be issued, opening and award- Ing, 194 ; statement under the act of April 20, 1874, P. L. 65, filed, 195; laying of the corner-stone, 196; changes made in plans and Increase over estimated cost, 198-200; contractors and sub-contractors for the court-house of 1900, 201; total cost of the court-house of 1900, 203, 241-247.
Buchanan, Mr. James S., sketch of, response on behalf of the taxpayers to the presen- tation address on the dedication of the court-house of 1900, 174.
Buffaloes, bears, and other wild animals in western Pennsylvania, 2.
Buffington, Hon. Joseph, Judge of the Dis- trict Court of the United States, to deliver the dedicatory address on the dedication of the court-house of 1900, 153, 204.
C
Caldwell, The A. B. Co., contractors for lino- leum for court-house of 1900, 201.
Campbell, Parker, mentioned, 52; admitted to Roll of Attorneys 1794, sketch of, 267. Canon, Colonel John, at Council of War at Catfish Camp in 1777, 5; supposed effort to locate public buildings at Canonsburg, 217.
Carnegie, Andrew, telegram of regret in re- ply to invitation to dedication of court- house of 1900, 156.
Carter & Pullman, sub-contractors for elec- tric work for court-house of 1900, 202.
Catfish Camp, Council of War at, in 1777, 4 ; Catfish Camp, Grand Cairo, and Martha's Bottom, warranted to the Hunters, town of Washington laid out, 207.
Chamberlin, Brown B., eighth president judge, commissioned in 1866, sketch of, 60.
Chambers, James C., associate judge, 61.
Charge to Grand Jury, the first in the court- house of 1900, 146.
Charlton, John. P., elected county commis- sioner from January, 1897, and death of, 162, 184, 193.
Chartier, Peter, half-breed trader, 207.
Circuit Court, organization of, 46; held at Washington, and trial of Birch v. McMil- Ian, 47.
Circular and remonstrance against expendi- ture of estimated cost of court-house and jail of 1900, 104.
Clark, Mr. J. Murray, sketch of, presentation address by, on dedication of court-house of 1900, 162 ; appointed to succeed Mr.
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John P. Charlton as county commissioner on the death of the latter, 193.
Clarke, Samuel C., court reporter, report to commissioners upon description and cost of court-houses, etc., of Westmoreland, Fayette, and Allegheny counties, 99-103. Clerks to Commissioners, list of from 1781, 317. Clerks of Courts, list of from 1781, 310.
Clock on third court-house, what became of it, 78.
Clothing, destitution of, when first term of court was held, 23.
Coal assessments and development In Wash- ington County in 1900, 114, 115.
Coal corporations and companies operating in Washington County in 1900, 114, 115.
Coal lands, assessed separately from surface in 1900, 114.
Columbia Fire-Proofing Company, sub-con- tractors for fire-proofing for court-house of 1900, 202.
Commissioners' account of expenditures for 1860, 79 ; tax levy for 1860, 84; account of expenditures for 1900, 234; tax levy for 1900, 248.
Commissioners' clerks, list of from 1781, 317. Commissioners' office, increase of business in since 1880, 92.
Committee of Washington Bar Association, Mr. James I. Brownson, Mr. L. McCarrell, Mr. J. P. Miller, Sr., Mr. T. Jeff Duncan, and Mr. Winfield MeIlvaine, arrange- ments and program for the dedication of the court-house of 1900, 152, 189
Common Pleas, Court of, how judges at first selected, 32: under constitution of 1790 regarded as principal court, and how judges selected, 37, 38.
Common schools, list of county superintend- ents of, from 1781, 319.
Competitive preliminary plans for court- house of 1900, those of F. J. Osterling selected, 87 ; approval of same, 87-107. Conclusion, 336.
Condemnation of additional ground for court- house and jail of 1900, 86.
Constitutions of Pennsylvania, first in 1776, 32; second in 1790, 37; third in 1838, 53; amendments of 1850, 55; fourth In 1874, 61. Contents of corner-stone of third court-house, 1842, 68-75; of corner-stone of court-house of 1900, laying of, 117, 121, 196.
Contractors for the erection of the first court- house, John Hoge and Andrew Swearin- gen, 18; of third court-house, 71; of court-house of 1900, security required of contractors, 192; list of contractors and sub-contractors for the court-house of 1900, 201, 202.
Contractors for the court-house of 1842, 71.
Contractors, general, for the court-house of 1900, 117, 192.
Cooper, Robert F., admitted to Roll of At- torneys in 1842, sketch of, 285.
Corner-stone of third court-house, contents of, 68-75 ; of court-house of 1900, contents of box in, 121 ; laying of, 117, 196.
Coroners, list of from 1781, 307. Corporate combinations in Washington County in 1900, 114.
Cost of erecting the first court-house, and to whom paid, John Hoge and Andrew Swearingen, contractors, 18; of second court-house, 24; of third court-house, 67; of court-house of 1900, 203 ; total cost of court-house and jail of 1900, 244.
Council of War at Catfish Camp in 1777, 4.
County bonds to be issued for the building of
the court-house of 1900, etc., bids for opened, 194.
County commissioners, list of from 1781, 313. County officers and judges in 1840, 70. County officers, list of from 1781, 301.
County superintendents of common schools, list of from 1854, 319.
County treasurers, list of from 1781, 318. Court expenses in 1860, 79; in 1900, 237.
Court Library, in third court-house, 68; in court-house of 1900, 250; Miss Alice E. Jones, court librarian in 1900, 251.
Court of Common Pleas, principal court under constitution of 1790, 37.
Court of Quarter Sessions, at first regarded as the principal court, 32; under constitu- tion of 1790, Court of Common Pleas re- garded as principal court, 37, 38.
Court, held during erection of second court- house, at the tavern of James Wilson, 281 ; held temporarily during the erection of the court-house of 1900 in the old Town Hall in its new location on the Todd lot, 192.
Courts of Justice, organization of for Wash- ington County, 214 ; presiding judges from the beginning, list of, 215.
Courts of Virginia in western Pennsylvania, 13 ; in Washington County, 14, 213.
Court-house of 1787, see first court-house ; of 1791, see second court-house ; of 1842, see third court-house; of 1900, see fourth court-house.
Court-houses : first, 17; contractors for, cost of, and to whom paid, 18; second, cost of, 24; description of and of related public buildings, 24; third, and related public buildings, cost of, 67; contents of corner- stone of third court-house, 68; contractors for third court-house, 71; description of, 76, 78; fourth court-house, and jail of 1900, condemnation of additional ground
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for, 86; of competitive plans for, those of F. J. Osterling selected, petition of the commissioners for the approval of, 87; estimated cost of, $500,000, 89; increase of business in the public offices since 1880, 90-93; overcrowded condition of the old jail, 94; remonstrance against expendi- ture of $500,000, 96; indorsemeuts by county officers, 97, 98; report by court reporter, Mr. Clarke, as to court-houses, etc., of Westmoreland, Fayette, and Alle- gheny counties, 99-103; circular and remonstrance against the proposed ex- penditure, 103-105 ; hearing on exceptions to the approval of the plans selected, 106 ; order, opinion, and decree approving the plans as presented, 106, 107; laying the corner-stone of, 117; address by Hon. J. F. Taylor, A. L. J., 118; address by Hon. J. A. McIlvaine, P. J., 119; contents of box placed in corner-stone, 121; petition of commissioners and order changing inside finish, 124, 125; records relating to erec- tion of court-house of 1900, where filed, 126; description of the court-house of 1900, 127, 143 ; dedication of, program, 152; letters of regret, 154-156; addresses, from what point delivered, 156; calling to order, Hon. J. A. Mcilvaine, P. J., 157; committee of Bar Association, arrange- ments and program for dedication, 152; introductory, Dr. Theo. Bland Noss, master of ceremonies, 158; prayer by Rev. Frank Fish, 160; presentation address hy Mr. J. Murray Clark, 162; response by Mr. J. Wiley Day, on behalf of the tax-payers, 169 ; response by Mr. D. S. Fulton, also on behalf of the tax-payers, 171 ; response by Mr. James S. Buchanan, also on behalf of the tax-payers, 174; response by Hon. J. F. Taylor, A. L. J., on behalf of the Court, 177; response by Mr. Alexander Wilson, on behalf of the bar and county officers, 180 ; history of the erection of the court- house of 1900, by Mr. James I. Brownson, 182; the several court-houses of Washing- ton County, 182; necessity for the new court-house, 183, 184; institution of pro- ceedings for the erection of, 184, 185; action of two grand juries, and order of the Court ou, 185, 186; necessity for ad- ditional ground, and the history and the removal of the old Town Hall, 187; choice of architect, F. J. Osterling, 189; still more ground necessary, and condemna- tion thereof from the estate of James W. Kuntz, deceased, 189, 190 ; sale of the old buildings to William Hockley, and their removal, 191 ; temporary place for holding court, in the old Town Hall in its new
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