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J. Sewell Stewart was a native of Hunt- ingdon county, born on May 1, 1819. He graduated from the Allegheny college in Meadville in 1841; studied law in Hunting- don in the office of Major Steel and was admitted to the bar on the 17th of April, 1843. In 1842 he was appointed deputy attorney general for Huntingdon county. He was elected again in 1850 and re-elected in 1853, holding the office until 1856, when he was appointed assessor of revenue in the Seventeenth district, which office he held until his death, February 6, 1871, which occurred at Huntingdon.
William P. Orbison, son of William Orbi- son, was born November 4, 1814, at Hunt- ingdon. He attended the Huntingdon acade- iny, Jefferson college, Cannonsburg, Pa., where he graduated in September, 1832, and read law in Huntingdon with John G. Miles for two years and a half; entered the law school at Carlisle, graduating in 1835, and was then admitted to the bar there. He returned and was admitted to the bar of Huntingdon county on November 12, 1835. In the spring of 1836 he entered into part- nership with James M. Bell, which firm con- tinned until 1845, when Mr. Bell moved to Hollidaysburg, and left Mr. Orbison to prac- tice alone, which he did thereafter. He was president of the First National bank of
Huntingdon from 1871 to 1878. He died in 1898, leaving one son practicing the law in Huntingdon.
Theodore H. Cremer was born at York, Pa., March 16, 1817; attended the best private schools of his native town and the York before the era of common schools. In 1837 he read law in York in the office of Robert J. Fisher (afterwards president judge). In 1838-39 he read law with James Armstrong, at Williamsport. In 1839 he entered the prothonotary's office as clerk under James Steel and read law with him until 1840, when he entered the law school at Carlisle, gradu- ated in the class of 1841; went to York and was admitted there in August of the same year, and returned to Huntingdon, where he was admitted on the 10th of the same month. In 1848 he was elected prothonotary, and re-elected in 1851, serving two terms. In 1856 was elected district attorney without opposition. Mr. Cremer died in 1893.
Col. William Dorris was born in Hunting- don, September 10, 1822. He graduated from the LaFayette college at Easton, Pa., in Sep- tember, 1840; entered the office of Miles &. Taylor of Huntingdon, as a student, and was admitted to the bar on the 15th of August, 1843. Soon after his admission Mr. Dorris entered into partnership with John G. Miles, taking the place of Mr. Taylor, and the firm became Miles & Dorris until Mr. Miles re- moved to Peoria, Ill., after which Mr. Dorris practiced alone. During the war of the Re- bellion in 1862 he was appointed colonel of the Third Regiment of Pennsylvania Militia, and served during the threatened invasion which was repelled at Antietam. At this time (1903) Mr. Dorris still retains his office, but is practically retired from practice.
Hon. John Scott was born at Alexandria, Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania, on the 14th of July, 1824. In 1842 he entered as a student the law office of Alexander Thomp- son, in Chambersburg, and at the end of the
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usual course of study was admitted to the bar. He returned to Iluntingdon and was admitted to practice on the 23d day of Jan- uary, 1846, and commenced practice in Hunt- ingdon. Soon afterwards he was appointed deputy attorney general of the county. He at onee became the leader of the Hunting- don eounty bar. He was elected United States Senator and took his seat on the 4th of March, 1869. He afterwards removed to Philadelphia and was general solieitor for the Pennsylvania Railroad company.
R. Bruce Petrikin was born at Muncie, Lycoming county, September 12, 1826, re- ceived his academic education at the Acade- my of Rev. Dr. Shedden, at MeEwensville, Pa., and completed his collegiate education at La Fayette college. Ile studied law in the office of Andrew Porter Wilson, at Hunting- don, and was admitted to the bar on the 13th of August, 1849. In the fall of 1870 he was elected to the Senate of Pennsylvania, which position he filled for three years to the satis- faetion of his constituents. At the breaking out of the Rebellion, Mr. Petrikin enlisted as private and was elected major of the Fifth -Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers. At the close of the war he returned to Hunting- don and practiced law until his decease.
Samuel T. Brown was born in Mifflin coun- ty, Pennsylvania, on the 21st of March, 1827. Ile was educated in his father's school, and in a private school in Mifflin county. He commenced the study of law in April, 1849, in the office of Major Thomas P. Campbell, and was admitted to the bar at Huntingdon, April 12, 1852. In 1868 Mr. Brown was elected to the Legislature, but served as dis- triet attorney for some time previous, being eleeted to that position in 1858, and also served in various borough offices.
John W. Mattern was born in Huntingdon county on the 12th of October, 1821. He was educated at the common sehools and at Meadville, Pa. He commenced the study of
law in 1852 in the office of John Scott, was admitted to the bar in April, 1854, and con- tinued the practice of law until his death. Mr. Mattern held the office of United States deputy collector for part of Huntingdon county in 1862 and 1863, and afterwards a position in the pension office in Washington, D. C.
William H. Woods was born at Lewistown, Pennsylvania, on the 17th of May, 1829, and is a son of Rev. James Woods; he attended the academy at Lewistown, then entered the college at Princeton, N. J., from which he graduated in 1848. He studied law in the office of his brother, Samuel S. Woods (now deceased), late president judge at Lewis- town, and was admitted to the bar in Mifflin county in 1859, and to the Huntingdon coun- ty bar April 12, 1859, and has since been ac- tively engaged in the practice.
W. McKnight Williamson, son of Rev. McKnight Williamson, was born in Juniata county, Pennsylvania, on the 29th of June, 1840; he was educated at Milnwood Acade- my, and read law in the office of his brother- in-law, W. H. Woods, in Huntingdon, and was admitted to the bar on the 17th of January, 1865.
K. Allen Lovell was born in Huntingdon county July 20, 1841. He received his edu- cation in the common schools and at Rev. J. B. Kidder's seminary, in Shirleysburg, and the State Normal school at Millersville. He studied law in the office of Messrs. Scott and Brown, and was admitted to the Huntingdon bar Angust 10, 1864. He was appointed dis- triet attorney in 1866, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of J. D. Campbell, and was re-elected for a full term of three years. In 1877 he was elected chief burgess of Hunt- ingdon and also served as chairman of the board of health and as school director of said borough.
Samuel E. Fleming was born in Hunting- don county January 31, 1845, and was edu-
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eated in the public schools and at Tusearora academy. Ile read law with R. M. Speer and was admitted to the Huntingdon county bar August 10, 1869. '
J. F. Schock was born in Huntingdon county October 13, 1849. He was educated in the common schools, at the academy of Pine Grove and at the seminary at Williams- port. He studied law in the office of Seott,
Brown & Bailey, and was admitted to the bar of Huntingdon county June 20, 1872.
John D. Dorris, son of Col. William Dorris, was born at Huntingdon, October 14, 1858. He graduated from La Fayette college, June 26, 1878; studied law with his father and was admitted to the bar on the 27th of September, 1880.
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LAWRENCE COUNTY
BY AARON L. HAZEN
The Seventeenth judicial district of Penn- sylvania was erected by an act of the Legis- lature of Pennsylvania, approved the first day of April, 1831, of the counties of Beaver, Butler and Mercer.
The county of Lawrence was crected by an act of the Legislature of Pennsylvania, approved the 20th day of March, 1849, part- ly of the territory of the county of Beaver and partly of the territory of the county of Mercer, and was declared by the same act of assembly to be a part of the Seventeenth judicial district.
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Hon. John Bredin, of Butler, was appoint- ed by Gov. George Wolf, president judge of the Seventeenth district in 1831, which posi- tion he filled until the time of his death, which occurred on the 21st day of May, 1851, in Butler: He was an upright man and a just judge.
The first term of court in Lawrence county was opened in New Castle, in the Methodist Episcopal church, on South Jefferson street, on Monday, the 7th day of January, 1850, Hon. John Bredin, president judge of the district, presiding.
The resident attorneys of Lawrence county and adjoining counties then admitted and sworn were, viz .: Jonathan Avers, J. K. Boyd, Hon. David Craig, David C. Cossett, John C. Crawford, John Hoffman, James W. Johnston, Davis B. Kurtz, Hon. L. L. Mc- Guffin, John Naff MeGuffin, James Pollock, Lewis Taylor, George W. Watson.
Of Beaver county : Hon. Daniel Agnew, IIon. Thomas Cunningham, Hon. B. B. Cham- berlain, N. P. Fetterman, John R. Shannon.
Of Butler county : Hon. John H. Negley, Col. C. C. Sullivan.
Of Mercer county : Col. Wm. Maxwell, Hon. Wm. M. Stewart, Wm. Steavenson, Johnston Pearson.
Hon. Daniel Agnew, of Beaver, was ap- pointed by Gov. William F. Johnston to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of Judge Bredin. He was elected at the ensuing state election for a full term of ten years from the first Monday of December follow- ing, he being the first judge elected in said judicial district under the constitutional amendment of 1850 making the judges elec- tive.
Hon. Aaron L. Hazen, of New Castle, Law- rence county, was elected and commissioned president judge and served as president judge of the Seventeenth judicial district until the first day of September, 1893. Hc was recommissioned as president judge of the Fifty-first judicial district, composed of the county of Lawrence, by an act of assem- bly, approved the 28th day of April, 1893, and which went into effect the first day of September, 1893, which had been detached from the Seventeenth judicial district and crected into a new district.
Judge Hazen moved to and resided in But- ler until the act of Assembly creating the new district went into effect, when he re- moved to New Castle. His discharge of duties during his terni on the bench was marked by a strict observance of legal forms and an earnest desire to render exact justice. He possessed a fine legal mind and his de- cisions were seldom reversed. After retiring from the bench, he resumed the practice of law in his native Lawrence county.
Hon. Lawrence Ludlow McGuffin succeed- ed Judge Agnew, first by appointment and
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in 1864 by eleetion for a full term of ten years. At the elose of his term he returned to the practice of law. He made an exeellent record and was deservedly popular. Ile died in New Castle on the 23d day of August, 1880.
The legislature of Pennsylvania, by an aet. approved the 9th day of April, 1874, ereated the office of additional law judge for the Seventeenth judicial distriet, then composed of the counties of Butler and Lawrenee, and Gov. John F. Hartranft appointed Major Charles MeCandless of Butler to the position of additional law judge, which position he filled until the first Monday of January, A. D. 1875.
Hon. Ebenezer McJunkin and Hon. James Bredin, both of Butler, were elected judges in said distriet, in 1874; and MeJunkin was commissioned president law judge, and Bre- din additional law judge, which positions they respectively held until the first Monday of January, 1885. They discharged their re- speetive duties faithfully and efficiently.
Hon. John McMichael, of New Castle, was eleeted in 1884, and was commissioned addi- tional law judge of said district and served from the first Monday of January, 1885, until his death, which oeeurred on the 17th day of April, 1892. He made an exeellent reeord and was deservedly popular. He was an upright man, possessed of great ability. His decisions were seldom reversed.
Hon. J. Norman Martin, of New Castle, was, on the 2d day of May, 1892, appointed and commissioned additional law judge, viee MeMichael deeeased, and served until the first Monday of January, 1893. He dis- charged the duties of the office faithfully and efficiently and was deservedly popular.
Hon. John M. Greer was elected in 1892, and commissioned additional law judge for a term of ten years from the first Monday of January, 1893, and on the first day of Sep- tember, 1893, he was commissioned president judge of the Seventeenth judicial distriet,
vice Judge Ilazen, commissioned for the un- expired part of his term president judge of the Fifty-first judicial distriet, formed of Lawrence county by aet of the 28th day of April, 1893, which went into effect on the first day of September, 1893.
Hon. Wm. D. Wallace, in 1894, was elected and commissioned president judge of the Fifty-first judicial district for a term of ten years, eommeneing with the first Monday of January, 1895.
BAR OF LAWRENCE COUNTY.
The following is a complete roster of the bar of Lawrenee county, with the dates of admission. Those marked with an asterisk (*) are deceased :
*Hon. Daniel Agnew, Jan. 7, 1850.
*. Jonathan Ayers, Jan. 7, 1850.
C. H. Akens, April 15, 1884.
Robert K. Aiken, Sept. 7, 1891.
B. W. Allsworth, Sept., 1874.
Clyde V. Ailey, Dee. 23, 1901.
*J. K. Boyd, Jan. 7, 1850. Hon. John P. Blair, 1850.
Hon. Wm. M. Brown, Jan. 18, 1883.
Robert S. Breekenridge, Feb., 1868.
*Wm. P. Buchanan.
Hon. Arthur L. Bates, June 14, 1900.
*F. N. Brown, Oet. 13, 1888.
E. N. Bear, Sept. 16, 1888.
J. T. Butler, 1875.
John H. Bitner, June 8, 1897. W. T. Burns.
*David C. Cossitt, Jan. 7, 1850.
#Hon. B. B. Chamberlain, Jan. 7, 1850.
*Hon. David Craig. Jan. 7, 1850.
*John M. Crawford, Jan: 7, 1850.
#Hon. Thomas Cunningham, Jan. 7, 1850. S. W. Cunningham, Sept., 1875.
Capt. Joseph V. Cunningham, Jan. 9, 1897. James A. Chambers, 1903.
*W. W. Coehran.
Samuel W. Dana, Sept. 5, 1853.
J. Smith DuShane, Sept., 1864. Riehard F. Dana, June 9, 1897.
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Thomas W. Dickey, Jan. 6, 1902. Charles R. Davis, Jan. 17, 1902. Hon. John Dalzell.
*J. Alvin Ewer, Sept. 12, 1865. Samuel P. Emery, June 3, 1889. Jas. G. Elliott.
N. P. Fetterman, Jan. 7, 1850. Samuel Foltz, 1872.
Wallace H. Falls, Aug. 4, 1879.
Clifford W. Fenton, July 1, 1899. *Robert Gilliland, 1850.
Licut. Jas. A. Gardner, Dec. 16, 1876. Quincey A. Gordon, April 24, 1889.
A. W. Gardner, Nov. 10, 1890. A. Martin Graham, Sept. 10, 1899.
H. K. Gregory, Dec. 12, 1893.
H. W. Grigsby, Mar. 3, 1897. Leach A. Grove, Jan. 2, 1900. John M. Gardner, July 1, 1899. *Hon. Jas. A. Garfield. *John Hoffman, Jan. 7, 1850.
Hon. Aaron L. Hazen, Sept. 12, 1866. Albert W. Harbison.
Hon. C. Heydrick. Maj. Thos. Henry.
*Samuel Holstein, Jan. 7, 1850. Frank S. Hill, July 6, 1881.
*Wm. C. Haus, June 15, 1874. D. W. Houston, 1857. Joseph W. Humphrey, June 3, 1896.
Wm. K. Hugus, April 6, 1896.
E. F. G. Harper, Mar. 6, 1896. Frank A. Hoover, Mar. 19, 1894. James J. Igo, Sept. 6, 1899.
*Maj. Jas. W. Johnston, Jan. 7, 1850. Col. Oscar L. Jackson, 1866. David Jamison, Nov. 7, 1883.
Hon. Asa W. Jones, Feb. 24, 1897. Davis B. Kurtz, Jan. 7, 1850.
*D. M. Kissinger, 1869. F. T. Kurtz, May, 1865. Lewis T. Kurtz, Sept. 16, 1886. David N. Keast, Jan. 22, 1891.
*Gilbert D. Keuster, 1870. Hon. J. W. Lee. Scott D. Long, May 7, 1869.
Porter W. Lowry, May 7, 1891. Win. H. Love, Nov. 17, 1894. John P. Lockhart, Sept. 1, 1902. *Col. Wm. Maxwell, Jan. 7, 1850. *Hon. Thomas B. Morgan, 1856. James M. Martin, Sept. 11, 1867. David S. Morris. Hon. Ellis Morrison. Hon. J. Norman Martin, Sept. 27, 1883. *Geo. C. Morgan, Jan. 19, 1891.
*John Law Morgan, May 4, 1891. Chas. E. Mehard, Dec. 13, 1893. Wm. J. Moffatt, Mar. 12, 1894.
*Hon. Thos. M. Marshall. Robert Markwood, 1875. Chas. G. Martin, Mar. 4, 1893.
Hon. Wm. F. Mecklim, Sept. 7, 1896. Hon. Samuel Miller.
George W. Muse, Dec. 9, 1897. Harvey E. Martin, Dec. 7, 1898.
*Hon. L. L. McGuffin, Jan. 7, 1850.
*John Naff McGuffin.
*Hon. John McMichael, Dec. 18, 1861.
*Hon. Milo McGlathny. George B. McClean, 1884. Hon. J. W. Mckinley, Sept. 27, 1883. John L. McClelland, Sept. 27, 1883. S. L. McCracken, Sept. 27, 1883. H. W. McKean, Dec. 30, 1884. W. B. McClelland, July 2, 1886. Wylie McCaslin, Nov. 17, 1894. Hon. Robert B. McComb, Feb. 15, 1853.
Hon. M. McConnell, Dec. 14, 1874.
John G. McConahy, Sept. 18, 1872.
A. H. McElrath, Sept. 15, 1899. Hon. Chas. McCandless. Hon. Arcus McDermott.
Hon. John H. Negley, Jan. 7, 1850.
James C. Norris, Mar. 4, 1899. John W. Nelson, Dec. 6, 1897.
*James Pollock, Jan. 7, 1850. Johnson Pearson, Jan. 7, 1850.
B. B. Pickett, 1856. Elmer J. Phillips, Nov. 10, 1886.
A. L. Porter, Jan. 22, 1885.
W. E. Porter, Jan. 23, 1893.
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Hon. A. B. Richmond.
Jas. W. Reis, Sept. 3, 1888.
Walter S. Reynolds, Sept. 8, 1896. Col. Thos. W. Sanderson.
*Hon. Wm. M. Stewart, Jan. 7, 1850.
*William Stevenson, Jan. 7, 1850.
*James M. Sword, Sept. 16, 1886.
*C. C. Sullivan, Jan. 7, 1850.
*John R. Shannon.
Jas. A. Stranahan.
*Lewis Taylor, Jan. 7, 1850.
*Geo. E. Treadwell, 1869.
L. M. Uber, Aug. 12, 1895. E. M. Underwood, Junc 4, 1894.
*Sam B. Wilson.
*Geo. W. Watson, Jan. 7, 1850. B. A. Winternitz, Jan. 10, 1873.
J. K. Wallace, 1872.
Hon. W. D. Wallace, Sept. 25, 1882. Jas. P. Whitla, Nov. 11, 1890. Harry G. Wasson, Jan. 25, 1892.
A. W. Williams, Dec. 9, 1892.
H. A. Wilkinson, Jan. 3, 1898. Geo. T. Winegartner, Mar. 15, 1899.
Edwin Stanton Weyand, Dec. 9, 1899. Robert L. Wallace, Dec. 1, 1902. J. G. White, 1878.
Chas. H. Young, July 1, 1899.
Hon. William D. Wallace was born in New Castle, on May 15, 1857, the son of Dr. James J. and Agnes (Davis) Wallace. His father was a native of Beaver county, where the old homestead, known as Wallace Run, or Grand View, still stands, just north of Beaver Falls. He died in 1887. The paternal grandfather came from the north of Ireland and settled at Wallace Run at an early day. He was a moulder and farmer, and built the first foundry in the Beaver or Ohio valley. He also served as one of the sheriffs of Beaver county. Our subject's paternal great-grandfather, Hendrickson, was a trapper by occupation, and the first settler of Lawrence county. His mother was of Scotch descent, his maternal grandfather being one of the early settlers, and the old
homestead still known as Scotland just west of city.
William, though raised in New Castle, spent much of his early life farming and also worked in the nail mills and clerked in a store. He attended the common schools and later studied in and was graduated from Westminster college, receiving his degree in 1881. He studied law in the office of Messrs. Dana & Long at New Castle, and was there admitted to the bar in 1882. Opening an office in his own name, he built up an ex- tensive general practice and was widely known as one of the successful and influen- tial lawyers of Lawrence county. He con- ducted many important litigated cases, that became noteworthy, among which may be mentioned that of Raney vs. New Castle, which is still a ruling equity case. Also McCurdy's appeal, which still rules the right of employees to share in the proceeds of mills and furnaces during the times of heavy fail- ures.
An active Republican, Mr. Wallace has served in both branches of the city council, being president of select council for one term; was also vice-president of the Repub- lican League club of Pennsylvania three terms, served as alternate delegate to the National convention at St. Louis that nomi- nated Mr. Mckinley, and was one of the committee selected from the Republican clubs of the state to attend the funeral of President Mckinley. He was first nominated as president judge of Lawrence county in 1892, but withdrew in favor of Judge Greer, of Butler, and in 1894 was elected to that office for a term of ten years, beginning in January, 1895.
Judge Wallace is a Mason of high degree, being a past master of that order and a Knight Templar. He is also a member of the Mystic Shrine, and of the Knights of Pythias, and belongs to the Order of Elks, and is a member of the Morgansa Board of the state of Pennsylvania.
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In 1885, at New Castle, Mr. Wallace mar- ried Miss Beatrice Matthews, a daughter of Mr. Watkins Matthews, one of the leading citizens of that city. They have one daugh- ter, Agnes, an attractive and promising girl.
Benjamin A. Winternitz, New Castle. - A native of Philadelphia, the subject of this sketch was born Mareh 10, 1853, to David and Elizabeth (Adler) Winternitz, the former a native of Bohemia and the latter of Austria. His parents were married in Phila- delphia, whence they removed to Clearfield, Pa., where the father engaged in the lumber business. In 1854 they settled at New Castle, where the father engaged in merehandising, and where he died in 1885. The mother died in 1892.
Benjamin attended high school in his native place, and in 1869 was graduated from New Castle academy. He began his law studies when but seventeen years old as a student in the office of Col. Osear L. Jackson, was admitted to the bar January 10, 1873, and at once opened an offiee for praetice, at New Castle. He conducted his practiee alone until 1881, sinee which time he has been asso- eiated with Mr. John G. MeConahy, under the firm name of Winternitz & MeConahy. He has always devoted himself closely to his professional duties and by faithful and con- seientious work has achieved the most grati- fying sueeess, standing among the foremost practitioners of his section of the state. For many years he has taken part in nearly all the noteworthy litigation that has eome be- fore the courts of Lawrence county and has frequently been called into eases in the neighboring counties, and in the cities of Cleveland, Pittsburgh and Philadelphia. In his youth, he by persistent and patient effort overcame a serious impediment in his speech, and for years has had a wide reputation as one of the most foreeful, eloquent and con- vincing speakers of the bar. He is a eareful and painstaking student and his addresses
are marked by elearness, strength, eloquence of dietion and wit.
Until 1892 Mr. Winternitz was identified with the Democratic party; but finding him- self out of sympathy with the principles of his party as promulgated in the Chicago platform, he gave his support to the Repub- lican cause and has since been a consistent advocate of Republican principles. He served several years as a member of the com- mon couneil of New Castle, later as a mem- ber of the select council, of which he was president several years; was repeatedly a delegate to the Demoeratie convention, and in 1884 was a Democratic presidential elector.
Mr. Winternitz is attorney for the First Bank of New Castle, for the American Tin Plate Company, Bell Telephone Company, Lawrence Gas Company, Shenango Gas Com- pany, Vulean Foundry and Machine Com- pany, New Castle Herald, and other large corporations. He belongs to the Masonie Fraternity, the Royal Arcanum, the Elks, and has membership in both the State and American Bar Associations.
On April 9, 1881, Mr. Winternitz married Miss Sara Goldrich, of Toronto, Canada. They have two daughters: Raehel, the elder, was graduated from the New Castle high school, as valedietorian of her class, and is now a law student in her father's office.
John G. McConahy, who was born in Wayne township, Lawrence county, Penn- sylvania, July 24, 1847, is a son of John and Barbara (Book) McConaby, who were among the early settlers of that county. His mother was a native of Pennsylvania, but the father was born in Ireland and came to the United States when he was ten years old. He was a wheelwright by trade, afterwards became a contractor and later settled on a farm. His father and mother emigrated from Ireland, the former in 1814, and the latter followed with their children two years later.
John G. passed his boyhood at home work- ing on the farm and having the ordinary
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experiences of a farmer's boy, and went to the district school in winter months. Later he attended school at Newcastle and at the Edinburgh State normal school. He then taught school some seven years. It was while he was thus teaching that Mr. S. K. Mc- Ginnis was elected prothonotary and clerk of the courts, and he appointed young Mc- Conahy assistant in his office, where he served during the term of Mr. McGinnis. He studied law in the office of Mr. John Mc- Michael at Newcastle, and was there ad- mitted to the bar in 1872, and then continued two years in the office of his preceptor, who afterwards was elected judge.
Mr. McConahy began practice by himself in 1874 and so continued until 1881, when he formed with Mr. B. A. Winternitz the firm of McConahy & Winternitz. The years 1885 and 1886 he spent in the West, and on his return associated himself with his former partner, and Mr. William M. Brown, now lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania, under the firm name of Winternitz, McConahy & Brown. At the end of one year Mr. Brown withdrew, and the present firm of Winternitz & McConahy was formed.
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