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Seetion 4 directs that the County Court, on receiving satisfactory assurances that the buildings are fully completed, cte., shall make a record thereof, and thereupon re- move the seat of justice to Pottsville, and also direct the removal of the prisoners from the jail at Orwigsburg to the new jail at Pottsville, and of all public records to the respective offices in the new court house.
Seetion 5 direets the county commission- ers, after that, to sell the old court house grounds and buildings at publie sale, and to execute a deed therefor, ete., which was manifestly in eonfliet with the provisions in Seetion 2.
At the election held pursuant to this act, in October, 1847, 3,551 votes were east for Pottsville and 3,092 for Orwigsburg, thus showing a majority of only 459 votes in favor of the removal of the seat of justice to Pottsville. A further aet was passed, ap- proved Mareh 8, 1848, P. L. 117, entitled "An Aet for the removal of the seat of justiee in the county of Schuylkill from Orwigsburg to the borough of Pottsville." This act reeites the aet of 1847 and the result of said eleetion, and that doubts had arisen eoneerning the constitutionality of said aet of 1847 under which said election was held, and therefore to remove all diffi- eulty by the enactment of an absolute law confirming the vote of the people of the county, and seeuring the removal of the seat of justice as aforesaid.
This aet again provides for the erection by the citizens of Pottsville, at their own proper expense, within three years there- after, upon the site in the borough of Potts- ville seleeted by the commissioners ap- pointed under the last reeited aet, of snit- able buildings of briek or stone for a court house and different offices for the safe-
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keeping of the county records, under the direction of the county commissioners, who are to receive a conveyance for said lot of ground for the use of the county of Schuyl- kill. As soon as said buildings are erected, together with a suitable jail, and the entire work approved by the court, then the seat of justice of the county shall cease to be at Orwigsburg and the same shall be removed to the borough of Pottsville.
Section 2 directs the purchase by the county commissioners of a suitable lot of ground in Pottsville for the erection thereon of a county prison and jail of brick or stone within three years thercafter.
Section 3 provides for subscriptions by the citizens of Pottsville to a fund to defray the cost of the erection of the new court house and public offices, and to enforce the collection thereof.
Section 4 provides for the approval by the court of these proceedings, and of the build- ings to be erected thereunder, and the mak- ing of a formal order for the removal of the seat of justice to Pottsville, and also of the prisoners, public records, etc.
Section 5 empowers the county commis- sioners, after such removal of the seat of justice, to release to the borough of Orwigs- burg the old court house and jail and public grounds at Orwigsburg in trust, cte .. as an academy or seminary of learning for the instruction and education of the youth.
On March 30, 1849, papers were filed in the commissioners' office showing subscrip- tions to the amount of over $20,000 for and toward the erection of the new court house, made by the citizens of Pottsville, and on January 15, 1851, the commissioners ap- pointed to select a site for the building, and who had selected the present court house grounds (which were then known as "Pine Hill," and belonged to the estate of Captain George W. Farquhar, deceased, formerly a prominent lawyer of our bar, and father of Messrs. Guy E. and Fergus G. Farquhar of
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our present bar), made their report to the county commissioners that the court house was complete, the total cost of it being $22,790.0834, and altogether, including clock and bell and incidentals and the grounds, costing less than $30,000.
On May 8, 1851, Hon. Luther Kidder, then the president judge of the court, and Jacob Hammer and Solomen Foster, his associates, reported to the county commissioners that they had examined the new court house, and found it a good substantial building, and constructed according to law. The first court was held in this new court house on the first day of December, 1851, and was pre- sided over by the Hon. Charles W. Hegins, who was the first president judge elected under the new constitution of 1850, which made the office of judge an elective one, and who then took his seat on the bench with Judges Soloman Foster and Francis S. Hubley as his associates.
The act of March 29, 1855, P. L. 141, authorized the county commissioners to buy from the Farquhar estate the residue of their grounds, extending down to Minersville street. A later act, passed in the sixties, vacated Third street between Minersville and Sanderson streets, and authorized the pur- chase from the Russel estate of the ground to the west, thus completing the grounds now constituting our present magnificent court house park.
By act of March 16, 1870, P. L. 447, com- missioners were appointed to sell or lease the old court house buildings and grounds at Orwigsburg, which, agreeably to the acts of 1847 and 1848, had for many years been used as an academy, the old Orwigsburg Academy, at which a number of the lawyers and other prominent men of the last genera- tion received their education.
The commissioners thereupon leased the premises to the Orwigsburg Shoe Manufac- turing Company for the term of ninety-nine years. Ever since then this venerable build-
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ing served as a shoe factory, and the old bell east for the first court house, and in- scribed "Thomas Levering founder, Phila. 1817," now ealls the factory people to their work, which is to many a more pleasant sound than when in days gone by it called malefactors to their doom, or the boys of later days to the sehool room.
The first site selected for the jail to be built in Pottsville was on Market street, uer Twelfth street, but being too far away from the court house grounds it was exchanged for the splendid site on Sanderson street directly opposite the court house. The old water basin lot at the corner of Twelfth and Norwegian streets, Pottsville, was also bought to supply water to the jail and court house, but later on abandoned by the county and sold to the Pottsville Water Company.
The aet of February 15, 1851, P. L. 56, extends the time for the erection and com- pletion of the new county prison for one year.
The aet of April 1, 1852, P. L. 211, desig- nates this prison as "The Sehuylkill county prison" and direets that it be managed by the board of county commissioners, who shall take charge of said prison as is herein provided for.
The magnificent and well-equipped county prison is worthy of passing notiee. Erected in 1851, it was found necessary in 1876 to extend and enlarge it, adding an entire wing to it, and the result is that this prison is today one of the largest, most imposing and best-equipped structures of its kind in the state. Its eost is given at $116,582. Sad to say, it never is and never was empty, but on the contrary, of late years, eapaeious as it is, it has at times been uncomfortably erowded.
The then new court house, built in Potts- ville in 1850 and finished in 1851, was then considered a very fine strueture, being 60 by 125 feet, or thereabouts, in size, eontain- ing the spacious and well-equipped publie
offices on the first floor, a fine main court room 871% by 54 feet and 21 feet high, with library, consultation and jury rooms, on the second floor, and another court room and other rooms on the third floor.
Many interesting and important cases were tried in this court house, and much business was transacted therein, and many pleasant reeollcetions of the good old days are cherished by the older members of our present bar, remembering the pleasant asso- eiations with their seniors and associates who have long since been called to a higher court, and the high sense of honor and the courtly dignity and professional ethics main- tained in those days.
The old iron table in the center of our present court room No. 1, presented to the court by the late Christopher Loeser, where stood our predecessors and seniors for gen- erations when addressing the court, is still used for that purpose by the present bar.
The old bell, which for generations an- nouneed the meetings of our courts, also sheriff's sales, political and other conven- tions and town meetings, with its inscription, "Cast by L. Debozear Phila. 1850 for the Pottsville Court House, " is still to us, as the liberty bell of 1776 is to the nation, a ven- erable relie of the past, as it stands in the basement entry of the new court house.
But Schuylkill county kept on growing wonderfully in population, wealth, ete., as its mineral resources were developed, and in time the business of the courts increased so largely that the accommodations of the old court house no longer answered the purpose, and the want of a larger and more modern and convenient court house, with larger and still better equipped publie offices. fire-proof vaults, etc., and larger, more commodious and impressive court rooms, and more of them, was felt, and it was found necessary to erect a new court house. After much eogitation it was deeided to utilize the old court house grounds on "Pine Hill," out of
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the way and to many difficult of aeeess as they are, instead of doing as they do in all other counties, putting the court house in the center of the county seat; though it must be admitted that when you are onee up there, and haye recovered your breath sufficiently to gaze around, and to get over your anger at the precious time lost to the busy lawyers and business men in getting there, often only to inspeet a single book or paper, the view is beautiful, and the air is fresh, especially so in midwinter, when you erawł up or slide down the iey hill almost at the risk of your life.
We cannot undertake in this article to give a detailed description of our magnificent new court house, the corner stone of which was laid in 1889, and which was finished and dedieated in 1892, with appropriate and im- pressive ceremonies on both occasions, par- ticipated in by the court, the bar, the officials and an interested public.
It is second to none in the state, outside of the large eities of Philadelphia and Pitts- burgh, in its splendid exterior appearanee and interior finish, and its commodious ar- rangements and equipments. Our two main court rooms challenge admiration, though court room No. 3 and the Orphans' Court rooms might be improved upon. Our public offiees are superb in their appointments, with fire-proof vaults and modern convenienees.
The building is of the Romanesque style of architecture, and built entirely of Cleve- land sand stone, 100 feet wide and 195 feet long, 171 feet high (five stories) from the grade line to the finial, with a magnificent tower, holding an immense eloek whose dials are about as large as a barn door, and whose fingers are almost the size of an ordinary man.
It has no bell, however, and judges, law- yers and suitors are no longer summoned to the temple of justice as in the good old days, but every one must reekon the time for him- self, and see that he gets there in time, or
else enter with fear and trembling if he is tardy.
Nor is this structure used for conventions or publie meetings as the old one was, but is devoted exelusively to the courts and publie business. The law library room, though originally well intended, located be- tween the two main court rooms, is now practically turned into a conversation or waiting room for the lawyers (for want of better accommodations), and it would fill volumes to tell all the gossip, and the inter- esting tales, and the often racy and spicy but evidently amusing and entertaining stories that are told there to relieve our overworked brethren of the bar of the wear and tear of their arduous labors, and of the severe strain and the anxieties of their serious and perplexing professional cares and duties.
Certain alterations are contemplated to seeure a room devoted exclusively to the use of the library and for research and for quiet study.
The new court house eost the county about $400,000, from ten to fifteen per eent of which, however, went in questionable ways, resulting in indietments based on the report of the county auditors (the authors of this article being their counsel), who investigat- ed the matter against the contractor and the arehiteet and certain eounty officials for con- spiraey to cheat and defraud the county, which, however, were afterwards settled by the aeeused making partial restitution.
As already stated, the first session of the eourts of this eounty was held on the third Monday of December, 1811, at the publie house of Abraham Reiffsnyder in Orwigs- burg, in West Brunswiek township, said house still standing in said borough, and being still used as a public house, and, renovated and modernized, is now known as the Areadian Hotel. The Hon. Robert Porter was the president judge who presided at this first sitting of the eourts of this eounty, he being
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the president judge of the Third judicial district, composed of Berks, Northampton, Wayne and the county of Sehuylkill, and his . associates were George Rauseh and Daniel Yost.
William Green, who was the grandfather of our late Judge David B. Green, was the first sheriff of Sehuylkill county, and re- turned the preeept for a grand jury, and the first jurors were then and there sworn. Seven eonstables, representing seven of the nine original townships of the county, made their reports to eourt, West Penn and Rush townships not being represented, being too distant and inconvenient of access.
The first county solieitor was John W. Roseberry, Esq., grandfather of the late John W. Roseberry, Esq., who received the magnifieent salary of $16 a year for his services.
Frederick Hesser was the first court crier, and, having been a drummer boy in the Revolutionary war, he would announce the assembling of the eourt by beating his drum under the window of the court room.
James MeFarland was the first prothono- tary, also serving as clerk of the eourts and as register and clerk of the Orphans' Court and recorder of deeds, which offiecs were all filled by one person for many years there- after, and were only gradually separated.
It was not until 1856 that the offices of prothonotary and clerk of the court, and the office of register of wills and clerk of the Orphans' Court and recorder of deeds, were finally separated and the present separate offices established. See act of March 29, 1856, P. L. 181.
The members of the bar who attended the first sitting of the court, and were then ad- mitted as officers of the newly established eourt, were George Wolff, Charles Evans, Frederick Smith, William Whitman, James B. Hubley, John Spayd, John W. Collins, M. J. Biddle, Samuel Baird and Jolm Ewing. So far as known, none of these gentlemen
resided within the confines of the new county, but all of them are supposed to have come up from old Berks, and to have resided at that time in the borough (now city) of Reading, though some of them afterwards moved to Orwigsburg, as thirty miles of old- fashioned staging was rather tiresome.
It is impossible at this late day to give with any degree of exactness the names of the many attorneys who were admitted to or practiced at the bar of our court. and the best we can do is to give the names of the attorneys as they can be gleaned from the doekets in the office of the prothonotary, which are as follows since 1818, having no record prior to that year.
The following list contains the names and dates of admission :
E. B. Hubley, October 16, 1818; Christo- pher Loeser, July 31, 1821; George Taylor, October 31, 1821; Alex L. Hays, October 31, 1821; Wm. B. Potts, October 27, 1823; John Bannan, March 30, 1824; Thos. Morris, Jr., July 27, 1824; Chas. A. Bradford, July 27, 1824; Geo. M. Keim, October 24, 1826; Daniel J. Heister, October 24, 1826: Joseph H. Spayd, March 26, 1827; W. C. Leaven- worth, December 30, 1828; Sergeant Hall, July 28, 1829; David Chander, July 28, 1829; Edward Owen Parry, October 26, 1829; George W. Farquhar, March 29, 1830; Philip S. Markley, March 29, 1830; Nicholas J. Wood, March 29, 1830; Robert Grier, March 29, 1830; Joseph M. Duncan, March 31, 1830; John C. Flanigan, April 1, 1830; Nathan Nathans, April 2, 1830; John S. Wharton, July 26, 1830; Volney B. Palmer, July 26, 1830; Wm. F. Dean, July 26, 1830; John Henderson, July 26, 1830; Henry W. Smith, July 27, 1830; Benjamin Parks, July 27, 1830; John J. Wurtz, July 29, 1830; Levi Hollingworth, October 25, 1830; George W. Woodward, October 26, 1830; John Swift, October 27, 1830; Joseph S. Cohen, October 29, 1830; Robert M. Barr, Deeember 30. 1830; Joshua W. Comly, March 29, 1831;
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Jacob Hoffman, October 23, 1832; Hugh Bellas, October 23, 1832; Benjamin W. Cum- ming, March 25, 1834; Garrick Mallery, Oe- tober 27, 1836; Ebenezer Greenough, Octo- ber 27, 1836; Jaeob Broom, July 24, 1837; John P. Hobart, July 24, 1837; Zaecur Prall, July 26, 1837; Francis W. Hughes, October 23, 1837; Charles Heistand, December 20, 1837; Eli K. Priee, October 21, 1839; James Pleasants, July 27, 1840; John W. Roseberry, Jr., September 20, 1841; James H. Campbell, October 18, 1841; A. W. Leyburn, December 3, 1841; Decatur E. Nice, June 1, 1842; John M. Foster, June 2, 1842; Augustine Dooly, June 18, 1842; Benjamin Gerhard, July 20, 1842; Wm. M. Meredith, July 20, 1842; Wm. B. Heisken, July 20, 1842; John C. Neville, July 21, 1842; Horace Smith, October 24, 1842; C. W. Brooke, October 30, 1843; Charles C. Raunn, July 24, 1844; Paul B. Carter, Deecmber 11, 1844; J. S. MeMicken, Mareh 3, 1845; Vincent H. Smith, March 5, 1845; R. M. Palmer, March 5, 1845; Evan O. Jackson, June 5, 1845; Charles W. Hegins, June 10, 1845; James T. Hale, June 10, 1845; Charles J. Jaek, June 17, 1845; James C. Marshall, September 8, 1845; Wm. P. Foulke, Deeember 5, 1845; Calvin Blythe, December 8, 1845; Jacob S. Livingood, Deeember 8, 1845; George W. Matehin, March 3, 1846; John Ulrich, June 6, 1846; Robert H. Hobart, June 11, 1846; Benjamin Bartholomew, July 7, 1846; Thomas Robinson, December 9,1846; Thomas H. Walker, December 9, 1846; How- ell Fisher, December 9, 1846; Charlemagne Tower, December 24, 1846; Wm. Cornfield, February 4, 1847; Bowman Bell, Mareh 1, 1847; John R. Breitenbaeli, September 9, 1847; Joseph W. Cake, September 10, 1847; J. K. Hamlin, September 14, 1847 ; John Por- ter, December 16, 1847; Wm. Ayres, June 5, 1848; Wm. B. Wells, September 15, 1848; Crosby W. Ellis, Deeember 11, 1848; A. L. Hennershotz, March 21, 1849; J. B. Mc- Enally, June 4, 1849; James Cooper, June 4, 1849; Brua Cameron, June 4, 1849; Peter
Burns, June 4, 1849 ; Hugh M. North, June 4, 1849; Henry W. Lewis, June 4, 1849; Ed- ward Shippen, June 4, 1849; T. L. Boileau, June 5, 1849; Wm. H. Hubbard, June 6, 1849; Bushrod W. Hughes, June 6, 1849: Peter Gwinner, June 12, 1849; Edward Olmstead, July 25, 1849; Daniel E. Phillips, September 3, 1849; G. H. MeCabe, Septem- ber 11, 1849; Edwin A. Brooke, September 17, 1849; Caleb F. Bowman, December 3. 1849; Othneil DeForest, Deeember 3, 1849; Seymour D. Ball, Deeember 4, 1849; John Weidman, Deeember 5, 1849; O. H. Wheeler, December 11, 1849; John Hendrieks, June 13, 1850; Wm. Roekafellow, September 9, 1850; Edward H. Baldy, September 10, 1850; John Williamson, December 2, 1850; Craig Biddle, Deeember 6, 1850; Wm. L. Whitney, Deeember 17, 1850; L. Grand Ban- croft, March 3, 1851; John C. Bullit, Mareh 13, 1851; Lemuel G. Traugh, March 20, 1851; Henry B. Woods, June 11, 1851; Na- thaniel P. Hobart, June 19, 1851; John Banks, September 1, 1851; Daniel H. Mul- veny, September 3, 1851; John Hughes, September 9, 1851; Matthew Canning, Sep- tember 9, 1851; Heister Clyiner, Deeember 1, 1851; George D. Haughawout, December 1, 1851; James A. MeBarron, February 6. 1852; Joseph W. Parker, June 7, 1852; Isaae M. Cake, June 12, 1852; George H. Clay, July 28, 1852; Thomas R. Bannan, September 8, 1852; Charles D. Hipple, De- eember 1, 1852; John T. Shoener, Deeember 10, 1852; Thomas T. Kutchen, June 7, 1853 : M. Edgar Richards, June 7, 1853; J. B. Swett, June 7, 1853; James Lewis, Septen- ber 9, 1853; Seth W. Geer, November 10, 1853; Jaeob Riegel, Deeember 8, 1853; James M. Richards, June 9, 1854; George DeB. Keim, January 22, 1855; David B. Green, January 23, 1855; Myer Strouse. Mareh 6, 1855; William R. Smith, March 12. 1855; Franeis P. Dewees, June 8, 1855; Wil- liam J. Leib, December 8, 1855; Jonathan Wright, September 2, 1856; Cyrus L. Pin-
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kerton, September 15, 1856; James Ryon, December 1, 1856; Christopher Little, March 16, 1857; Lin C. P. Bartholomew, March 16, 1857; Albion P. Spinney, March 16, 1857; Conrad F. Shindel, December 18, 1857; John T. Boyle, September 20, 1858; James Ellis, September 20, 1858; John P. Brook, Sep- tember 21, 1858; George M. Dallas, Septem- ber 16, 1859; W. Ramsay Potts, September 17, 1859; Franklin B. Gowen, May 31, 1860; B. M. McCormick, February 2, 1861; B. B. McCool, February 6, 1861; Henry Royer, March 19, 1861; Robert L. Leyburn, March 19, 1861; Herman B. Graeff, March 19, 1861; Orlando O. Tiffany, September 5, 1861; George W. Ryon, September 11, 1861; Wal- lacc P. Ryon, December 9, 1861; John R. Conyngham, March 19, 1862; George W. Matz, March 19, 1862; Jacob A. Hazen, April 19, 1862; Daniel D. Dillman, April 19, 1862; John W. Ryon, March 23, 1863; Henry C. Bergstresser, April 15, 1863; Henry S. Marr, April 15, 1863; Guy E. Farquhar, June 1, 1863; E. Greenough Scott, June 2, 1864; Cornelius Smith, June 6, 1864; David A. Jones, June 20, 1864; Seth H. Yocum, April 26, 1865; Silas W. Geis, April 29, 1865; Frank T. Bennett, June 12, 1865; W. J. Wolverton, September 5, 1865; S. G. Ken- nedy, September 5, 1865; Wm. A. Marr, September 8, 1865; Martin M. L'Velle, Sep- teniber 25, 1865; Wm. H. Dewees, Marchi 5, 1866; Adolph W. Schalek, March 16, 1866; Solomon Foster, Jr., March 16, 1866; Ber- nard Reilly, Jr., March 16, 1866; Mason Weidman, March 30, 1866; Fergus G. Far- quhar, April 9, 1866; Oliver P. Bechtel, May 10, 1866; John A. M. Passmore, September 24, 1866; John W. Bickel, December 12, 1866; Joel B. McCamant, December 12, 1866; James H. Grier, September 2, 1867; W. F. Shepherd, October 21, 1867; John H. James, December 18, 1867; Shadrach J. Raughley, January 27, 1868; William D. Seltzer, March 16, 1868; George H. Trout- man, April 13, 1868; John A. Nash, April
13, 1868; Horace M. Darling, May 13, 1868; Francis W. Bechtel, May 13, 1868; Elias G. Hughes, May 13, 1868; Francis C. Campbell, May 18, 1868; George R. Kaercher, Novem- ber 16, 1868; James B. Reilly, January 11, 1869; Joseph W. Cake, November 5, 1869; Z. T. Galt, December 21, 1869; Henry C. Sheafer, May 14, 1869; Geo. C. Chambers, September 8, 1869; Albert Knittle, October 8, 1869; L. D. Haughawout, December 13, 1869; Chas. F. Smith, January 10, 1870; Harry C. Dornan, March 7, 1870; Charles N. Brumm, March 7, 1870; George S. Cole- man, March 21, 1870; Charles W. Wells, April 11, 1870; B. B. Leucks, April 25, 1870; Theo. W. Gunster, June 11, 1870; G. B. Nicholson, November 8, 1870; George D. Judd, November 29, 1870; Frank P. Ryan, December 12, 1870; Lyman Hakes, Decem- ber 26, 1870; J. S. Leisenring, February 13, 1871; A. S. Hottenstein, May 10, 1871; S. P. Auchmuty, June 7, 1871; L. Merriman, June 20, 1871; Charles K. Taylor, November 6, 1871; Richard P. White, December 4, 1871; Edward Burr, December 4, 1871; Benj. F. McAttee, April 24, 1872; Henry Souther, May 13, 1872; D. C. Henning, April 8, 1872; John V. Reynolds, August 12, 1872; I. Y. Sollenberger, October 21, 1872; Thomas R. Beddall, January 20, 1873; S. A. Garrett, March 17, 1873; Walter S. Heilner, March 19, 1873; Thomas W. France, June 2, 1873; Joseph L. Welsh, June 2, 1873; Nicholas IIeblich, June 2, 1873; Anthony Campbell, December 22, 1873; J. Adam Cake, June 16, 1874; W. John Whitehouse, July 6, 1874; T. H. B. Lyon, July 20, 1874; W. A. Red- ding, August 16, 1874; James F. Minogue. September 7, 1874; John J. Clark, Septem- ber 7, 1874; John F. Whalen, September 7. 1874; H. C. Sheafer, October 5, 1874; James M. Healy, December 7, 1874; Francis A. Mortimer, December 3, 1874; Albert G. Green, January 22, 1875; S. G. M. Hollo- peter, March 13, 1875; Frank S. Christian, March 30, 1875; Samuel H. Kaereher, Au-
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gust 23, 1875; Arthur J. Pilgram, August 23, 1875; James B. Henderson, August 27, 1875; William Bryson, October 7, 1875; Jo- siah Lineawcaver, December 6, 1875; Horace Walter, December 4, 1876; E. M. Monaghan, December 4, 1876; Jacob Kline, December 4, 1876; Martin Byrne, December 4, 1876; Joseph W. Moyer, December 4, 1876; Joseph H. Pomeroy, December 26, 1876; Robert L. Johnson, March 20, 1877; J. I. Lichtenberg, June 4, 1877; Edmund D. Smith, December 3, 1877; John A. Sullivan, March 4, 1878; Wm. W. Ryon, March 18, 1878; Frank R. Garrett, June 3, 1878; Lewis B. Walker, June 17, 1878; Burd S. Patterson, June 24, 1878; I. B. Myers, December 4, 1878; Sam- uel B. Fisher, December 4, 1878; Bernard H. O'Hare, December 6, 1878; M. P. Mc- Loughlin, December 9, 1878; Charlemagne Tower, Jr., December 16, 1878; James F. Grady, February 10, 1879; Patrick M. Dunn, March 3, 1879; Isaac M. Price, September 3, 1879; Charles C. Matten, April 28, 1880; George M. Roads, June 30, 1880; W. K. Woodbury, July 26, 1880; Math M. Mac- Millan, September 6, 1880; George J. Wad- linger, March 2, 1881; Alfred C. Oliver, March 2, 1881; Richard H. Koch, May 2, 1881; William Wilhelm, May 2, 1881; Philip Keller, July 5, 1881; Burd S. Edwards, July 5, 1881; G. H. Gerber, September 5, 1881 ; W. Potts Ramsey, November 14, 1881; John E. Schall, November 14, 1881; Michael Powers, November 14, 1881; John D. Sells. January 16, 1882; David C. Herrington, January 23, 1882; John J. Davis, March 5, 1883; John F. Dolphin, March 5, 1883; Brua C. Keefer, September 3, 1883; John R. Coyle, September 24, 1883; James W. Ryan, Septem- ber 1, 1884; Edward A. Beddall, March 2, 1885; Charles E. Breckons, March 2. 1885; A. J. Gallagher, May 4, 1885; A. L. Shay, Sep- tember 7, 1885; Wm. G. Wells, January 4, 1886; Arthur G. Smiley, January 4, 1886; Charles Heebner, March 15, 1886; Edward Brady, May 10, 1886; J, O, Ulrich, June 21,
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