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Samuel Huntington Devotion was admit- ted August 13, 1814, on motion of Henry Baldwin.
Henry A. Kurtz was admitted November 17, 1814.
James M. Riddle was admitted November 19, 1814, and died March 20, 1832.
John Philpot Curran Sampson was ad-
mitted June 26, 1815, on motion of Samuel Douglass.
Henry Campbell was admitted August 15, 1815, on motion of Walter Forward.
Thomas Mckean Thompson McKennan, LL. D., son of Col. William and Elizabeth (Thompson) McKennan, was born in New- castle county, Delaware, March 31, 1794. Ile graduated from Washington eollege, Pennsylvania, with the class of 1810, which institution afterwards conferred upon him the degree of doctor of laws. Reading law with Parker Campbell at Washington, Pa., he was admitted to the Washington county bar in October, 1814, and to the Allegheny county bar November 16, 1815, on motion of his preceptor. He was deputy attorney general for Washington county in 1815 and 1816; was elected to Congress from the Washington district in 1830, 1832, 1834, 1836, and was elected again in 1840; was Secre- tary of the Interior from August 15, 1850, to September 12, 1850. Mr. MeKennan died at Reading, Pa., July 9, 1852, and was buried at Washington, Pa.
Ebenezer S. Kelley was admitted Novem- ber 17, 1815, on motion of Henry Bald- win.
Alexander Brackenridge, son of Hugh Henry Brackenridge, was born in Pittsburgh, Pa., read law with his father and was ad- mitted to the bar November 19, 1815. Hc was appointed deputy attorney general for the county of Allegheny by Attorney Gen- eral Amos Elhnaker, and took the oath of office December 21, 1818; was reappointed by Attorney General Thomas Sergeant, and took the oath of office August 4, 1819. He was also a member of the State House of Representatives. Soon after this Mr. Brack- enridge retired from practice and went into business, and was president of the branch bank of the United States at Pittsburgh. Removing to Philadelphia, he died there May 4, 1870, aged seventy-eight years, three
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months and eleven days, and was buried in the Allegheny cemetery, Pittsburgh.
Henry Bostwick was admitted January 10, 1816, on motion of Henry Baldwin.
Edward J. Roberts, son of Samuel Roberts, was admitted November 13, 1816, on motion of Henry Baldwin. He was afterwards a paymaster in the army and clerk of the United States Conrt for the Western District of Pennsylvania.
Harmar Denny was born May 13, 1794, in the Cumberland Valley, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Dickinson eollege with the class of 1813, and was admitted to the Alle- gheny county bar November 13, 1816, on motion of Henry Baldwin. He was a mell- ber of the state House of Representatives of Pennsylvania, also a member of the na- tional House of Representatives from the distriet of which Allegheny county was a part, from March 4, 1829, to Mareh 4, 1837. He was elected president of common coun- eils of the city of Pittsburgh in 1849. Mr. Denny died January 29, 1852, and was buried in the Allegheny cemetery, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Mr. Denny was an excellent lawyer. a high-minded, publie-spirited citizen and ( hristian gentleman.
In his day no important movement in church, state or for the material develop- ment of Pittsburgh and Allegheny was un- dertaken without his counsel and seldom contrary to his advice.
Mrs. Denny had a vast fortune, and from the day of their marriage to the day of his death his labors were continued and earnest to protect and care for her estate, to pass it, if not inereased, at least undiminished, to their posterity. Mrs. Denny's benefactions for the poor and unfortunate are well known even to this day, and in this great and favor- ite work of hers Mr. Denny was an earnest and zealous co-laborer.
Thomas H. Sill was born at Windsor, Conn., October 11, 1783. Ile was graduated from Brown university with the elass of
1804, studied law with Jacob Burdett, at Cincinnati, Ohio, and was admitted to the bar there. Ile practieed at Lebanon, Ohio, a few years, when he removed to Erie, Pa., where he spent the balance of his life, mainly in the practice of the law. He was a mell .- ber of Congress from the Erie district from Mareh 4, 1829, to March 4, 1831.
Mr. Sill was a member of the convention that framed the state constitution of 1838, also a member of the Pennsylvania electoral college in the presidential election of 1848. He was admitted to the Allegheny county bar January 14, 1817, on motion of A. W. Foster.
Chauncey Forward was born in 1793, at Old Granby, Conn., and removed with his family to Western Reserve, Ohio, in 1800. He was educated at Jefferson college, Penn- sylvania, and admitted to the Allegheny county bar January 18, 1817, on motion of Henry Baldwin. Mr. Forward was elected to Congress from the Somerset district to fill a vacancy caused by the resignation of Alexander Thompson in 1826, and was re- elected in 1828. Altogether, he served from December 4, 1826, to March 4, 1831. He resided and practiced at Somerset, Pa., hav- ing removed to that place soon after admis- sion here. He died at Somerset, October 19, 1839. He was a brother of Walter Forward.
James M. Kelley was admitted July 8, 1817, on mnotion of Walter Forward.
John Spear Brady, son of James Brady, was born at Greensburg, Pa., in 1794. IIe graduated from Washington college, Penn- sylvania, with the class of 1813, read law with Parker Campbell at Washington, and was admitted to the Washington county bar in June, 1817. Mr. Brady resided and practiced at Washington from the date of his admission until the date of his death. IIe was admitted to the Allegheny county bar, November 12, 1817, on motion of Parker -
Campbell. He died at Greensburg, Pa., November 11, 1867.
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Richard Biddle was born March 25, 1796, in Philadelphia. He received a thorough English and classical education. IIe served in the war of 1812, and at its close read law with his brother, William S. Biddle, and was admitted to the Philadelphia bar; then came to Pittsburgh and was admitted to the Alle- gheny county bar, November 10, 1817, on motion of John McDonald. In 1828 Mr. Biddle went to Europe, and, returning in 1832, resumed the practice of his profession with great success. He was elected to Con- gress in 1836 and re-elected in 1838. On aceount of ill health and distaste for Con- gressional life, he resigned in 1840. He was the author of "The Life of Sebastian Cabot."
Mr. Biddle died July 7, 1847. . His death was announced to the courts on the day of its occurrence by H. S. Magraw and Thomas Hamilton. He was buried in the Allegheny cemetery, Pittsburgh.
Richard Biddle was a lawyer of great ability, commanding a large and lucrative praetiee, and was a man of the highest ehar- aeter and strictest professional integrity.
Henry M. Campbell was admitted April 6, 1818, on motion of Alexander Braeken- ridge.
John Henry Hopkins was born January 30, 1792, at Dublin, Ireland, the only child of Thomas and Elizabeth (Fitzakerly) Hop- kins. The family emigrated to Ameriea in 1800. His elementary education with music and French was by his mother. From his eleventh to thirteenth year he studied Greek, Latin and mathematics at a Baptist school in Bordentown, N. J. He spent a year with the family of a French refugee at Princeton, daneing, fencing and perfecting Freneh pro- muneiation, then removed to Philadelphia and spent some time in teaching and in business, during which period he painted "Wilson's Birds of America." Afterwards he spent three years in learning the process of the manufacture of iron, and in 1813 took charge of the construction and operation of
the Bassenheim furnace near Zelienople and Harmony, Butler county, Pennsylvania.
In 1814 Mr. Hopkins took charge of a furnace owned by General James O'Hara, called the "Hermitage," in Ligonier Valley, Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, and while there in 1816 was registered as a law student with A. W. Foster of Greensburg, Pa., and in 1817 removed to Pittsburgh, completed his studies, and was admitted to the Allegheny county bar April 9, 1818, on motion of William Wilkins.
Mr. Hopkins practiced his profession with marked success until November, 1823, when he retired from the bar and accepted the rectorship of Trinity Protestant Episcopal church, Pittsburgh, in which he had been acting as lay reader. He was ordained deacon December 14, 1823, and minister May 12, 1824, by William White, bishop of the diocese of Pennsylvania. On July 17, 1831, he resigned charge of Trinity church, Pitts- burgh, and accepted a call to Trinity church, Boston. On May 31. 1832, he was elected bishop of Vermont, and was consecrated October 31, 1832. Ile was presiding bishop of the Episcopal church in the United States from January 13, 1865, until his death, Jan- uary 9, 1868, at Burlington, Vermont. His body was interred at Rock Point, near Bur- lington.
Mr. Hopkins wrote and published the following works : "Christianity Vindicated ;" "The Primitive Church;" "The Primitive Creed;" "Essays on Gothic Architecture;" "The Church of Rome:" "The History of the Confessional;" "The End of Contro- versy. Controverted :" "The American Citi- zen :" "A Scriptural, Ecclesiastical and Ilis- torical View of Slavery From the Days of the Patriarch Abraham to the Nineteenth Century ;" "The Law of Ritualism:" "The History of the Church in Verse:" "Twelve Canzonets." 'words and music, with many others of minor import.
When he came to the bar Mr. Hopkins
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sprang into a large practice at the start. His . eloquence, manly Christian conduct, prompt- ness, familiarity with the details of business and aptness in the comprehension and dis- cussion of difficult questions of law and practice, brought him to the fore front of a strong bar.
James Hall was born August 19, 1793, in Philadelphia. He began the study of law, but soon left it to join the army in the war of 1812. Ile rendered distinguished service at Lundy's Lane and Fort Erie, resigned, came to Pittsburgh and completed his studies. Ile was admitted April 9, 1818, on motion of IIon. William Wilkins.
In 1820 Mr. Hall removed to Shawnee- town, Ill., where he practiced law and edited the Illinois Gazette. In 1824 he was elected circuit judge of the circuit in which he prac- ticed, serving a full term, and was after- wards elected and served as treasurer of the state of Illinois. Mr. Hall was the author of many historical and literary works; he died near Cincinnati, July 5, 1868.
James S. Craft was born in New Jersey. He was admitted to the Allegheny county bar April 9, 1818, on motion of Henry M. Campbell. He died in Pittsburgh, Novem- ber 18, 1870, and was buried in the Allegheny cemetery. His death was announced to the courts on the day of its occurrence, by Robert Woods. Mr. Craft was a good busi- ness lawyer, and left a large estate to a family of great respectability, intelligence and prominence.
Dryden Forward was admitted July 21, 1818. Ile was a brother of Walter and ('hanncey Forward.
D. S. Walker, son of Hon. Jonathan Hoge Walker, was graduated from Dickinson college in 1814, under the name of Stephen Duncan Walker. His maternal grandfather was Stephen Duncan, of Carlisle, for whom he was probably named. Ile was a brother of Robert J. Walker of Mississippi. Mr. Walker was admitted to the Allegheny coun-
ty bar, September 25, 1818, and later re- moved to Natchez, Mississippi. His father was judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsyl- vania, who died at the house of his son in Natchez, January, 1824, while on a visit there.
Andrew Stewart was born in June, 1792, in Fayette county, Pennsylvania. Ile re- ceived a common school education, read law at Uniontown, Pa., and was admitted to the Fayette county bar in 1815. He was attor- ney for the United States for the Western District of Pennsylvania, and a member of the state House of Representatives from Fayette county. Mr. Stewart was admitted to the Allegheny county bar April 29, 1819, on motion of Charles Shaler. He was elected to Congress from the district of which Fay- ette county was a part, in 1820, 1822, 1824, 1826, 1830, 1832, 1842, 1844 and 1846. He died at Uniontown, Pa., July 16, 1872.
William H. Denny was admitted May 5, 1819.
John Bredin, son of James and Jane (Dun- lap) Bredin, was born in 1794, at Stranor- lar, county Donegal, Ireland. The family emigrated to America and settled in Donegal township, Butler county, Pa., in 1802. Mr. Bredin read law with William Ayres of But- ler and was admitted to the Butler county bar, August 12, 1817, and to the Allegheny county bar, May 7, 1819, on motion of Henry Baldwin. Ile practiced with great success in Butler and the surrounding counties until 1831, when he was appointed presiding judge of the Seventeenth Judicial District, comprising the counties of Beaver, Butler and Mercer. He was re-appointed in 1841 and served until his death, which occurred at his residence in Butler, May 21, 1851.
Robert Bostwick was admitted June 16, 1819, on motion of Charles Shaler.
Samuel A. Roberts was admitted August 6, 1819, on motion of Henry Baldwin.
Charles J. McCurdy was admitted to the
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Allegheny county bar, November 1, 1819, on motion of Henry Baldwin, having been admitted August 20, 1819, at Windham, Con.
Joseph L. Hepburn was admitted January 8, 1820, on motion of Walter Forward.
Ross Wilkins, son of John Wilkins, Jr., and Catherine (Stevenson) Wilkins, was born in Pittsburgh, Pa., February 19, 1799. He was graduated from Dickinson eollege with the class of 1816, read law at Pitts- burgh, and was admitted February 9, 1820, on motion of Henry M. Campbell.
In 1832 Mr. Wilkins was appointed terri- torial judge of Michigan, and served to 1837. He was recorder of the city of Detroit in 1837, and was United States distriet judge for the state of Michigan from 1837 to 1870, when he was retired on the age limit. Judge Wilkins died at Detroit, May 17, 1872, and was buried in Elwood cemetery, Detroit.
John A. Blodgett was admitted February 26, 1820, on motion of Charles Shaler. He removed to Bedford and was admitted to the bar of Bedford county in 1822.
George Watson was admitted May 26, 1820, on motion of Charles Shaler. His death was announced to the courts January 14. 1865, by Charles Shaler.
Trevanion Barlow Dallas, son of Alexan- der James Dallas, was born in Philadelphia and educated at Princeton. He commenced the study of the law at Philadelphia with his brother, George M. Dallas. He removed to Pittsburgh and completed his studies with his brother-in-law, William Wilkins, and was admitted June 29, 1820, on motion of Henry Baldwin. For a while he was dep- uty attorney general for Allegheny eounty, and was solicitor for the city of Pittsburgh in 1830-1831; was also president of the Se- lect Council of the eity of Pittsburgh in 1834-1835.
Mr. Dallas was commissioned president judge of the courts of Allegheny county May 15, 1835, and served until June 4, 1839,
when he resigned, having been two days be- fore commissioned an associate law judge of the District Court of Allegheny county, which latter position he held until his death, April 7, 1841. He was buried in Trinity churchyard, Sixth avenue, Pittsburgh. His death was announeed to the courts April 18, 1841, by Charles Shaler.
Henry G. Pius was admitted August 19, 1820, on motion of Richard Biddle.
Nathaniel Ewing, LL. D., son of William and Mary (Conwell) Ewing, was born July 19, 1794, at Dunlap's Creek, Pa. He was graduated from Washington college, Pa., with the class of 1812, read law with Thomas MeGiffin at Washington, Pa., and was ad- mitted to the Washington county bar in June, 1816. He removed to Uniontown, Fay- etee county, Pa., soon after his admission, and engaged in the practice of the law; was president judge of the Fourteenth Judicial District, composed of Fayette, Green and Washington counties, from 1838 to 1848.
Mr. Ewing was admitted to the Allegheny county bar November 9, 1820, on motion of Parker Campbell. The degree of LL. D. was eonferred upon him by Washington col- lege in 1861. He died at Uniontown, Febru- ary 8, 1874.
Benjamin R. Evans was born in Pitts- burgh and admitted January 20, 1821. He died in Pittsburgh. February 8, 1866, aged sixty-nine years and eighteen days, and was buried in Allegheny cemetery, Pittsburgh.
Algernon Sidney Tannehill Mountain, son of James and Agnes (Gilkison) Mountain, was born December 31, 1803, at Pittsburgh. Pa., and admitted to the Allegheny county bar June 8, 1821. He was deputy attorney general for Allegheny county. and died in Pittsburgh, August 9, 1827. On the follow- ing day we find this minute :
"Friday, August 10, 1827, the court met at 8 o'clock A. M.
Hon. Charles Shaler, President,
Hon. Franeis MeClure,
RICHARD BIDDLE.
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Hon. James Riddle, Associates."
And made the following announcement and order: "The court having been in- formed of the deccase of A. S. T. Mountain, Esq., late an attorney of this court :
"Ordered; that as a mark of respect to the memory of a gentleman whose honora- ble conduct in private life endeared him to society, and whose courteous deportment to- wards the court in the discharge of his pro- fessional duties, is worthy of imitation, the eourt do adjourn until to-morrow morning at 8 o'clock."
The remains were buried in the graveyard of the First Presbyterian church, Pitts- burgh, and afterwards removed to the Al- legheny cemetery, Pittsburgh. The records do not disclose with whom he read law nor on whose motion he was admitted.
Ephraim Pentland was recorder of the Mayor's Court of the city of Pittsburgh, and prothonotary of the court of Common Pleas of Allegheny eounty from February 10, 1809, to February S, 1821. He was admitted to the Allegheny county bar June 8, 1821. IIe died March 6, 1839, and his death was announced to the courts Mareh 7, 1839, by Walter Forward.
Robert John Walker, son of the Honor- able Jonathan Iloge Walker, was born July 19, 1801, in Northumberland county, Pa. He commenced his education at the West- ern university of Pennsylvania at Pitts- burgh, and was graduated from the Univer- sity of l'ennsylvania, Philadelphia, with the class of 1819. He read law with his father at Pittsburgh, who was then United States judge for the Western District of Pennsyl- vania, and was admitted to the bar August 7, 1821, on motion of Henry Baldwin. He practieed at Pittsburgh until 1826, when he removed to Madisonville, Miss., and won phenomenal suecess at the Mississippi bar, practicing in all the courts of that and some of the adjoining states.
Mr. Walker was elected United States sen-
ator from Mississippi, and served from Fch- ruary 22, 1836, to March 5, 1845, when he resigned and accepted the office of secretary of the treasury tendered him by President: Polk. He served as secretary of the treas- ury from March 5, 1845, to March 6, 1849, and then made a prolonged visit to England and many European cities and countries. In 1857 President Buchanan appointed him ter- ritorial governor of Kansas, which he. re- signed after a short experience in that then hotbed of bloodshed. murder and political strife.
In 1863 Senator Walker was commissioned by President Lincoln as financial agent of the United States to the governments of Eu- rope, the duties of which he ably and satis- factorily discharged until after the close of the Civil war. He was counsel for Russia in the negotiation and sale of Alaska to the United States. He died at Washington, D. C., November 11, 1869. He married Mary Ann Bache, a granddaughter of Benjamin Franklin.
William Anderson was admitted Novem- ber 7, 1821, on motion of Henry Baldwin.
Aaron K. Woolley, son of Abraham R. Woolley, a major in the Sixth United States Infantry, was born in New Jersey, and edu- eated at West Point. He was admitted to the Allegheny county bar November 23, 1821, on motion of Richard Biddle, with the unanimous consent and request of the mem- bers of the bar in writing presented to the court. At that time his father was in com- mand of the United States arsenal, Pitts- burgh, Pa. Soon after his admission he re- moved to Lexington, Ky., and attained great eminence in his profession. He was also a member of the House and of the Senate of the Kentucky Legislature, and afterwards judge of the Circuit Court; and at the time of his death professor of law in the Transyl- vania University. Mr. Woolley died of chol- cra at his home in Lexington, August 3. 1849, aged fifty years.
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Washington Wayne Fetterman, eldest son of George and Ilannah (Plumer) Fetter- man, was born in Saint Clair (now Scott township), Allegheny county, Pa., on a farm yet owned by the Fetterman family. He was educated in the schools and academies of the neighborhood and of the city of Pittsburgh, read law with Henry Baldwin, and was ad- mitted Mareh 18, 1822. Mr. Fetterman was a lawyer of eminence and of the highest personal eharaeter. He was a brother of Nathaniel Plumer Fetterman, also of our bar, with whom he practieed in partnership at his death, and for many years before. He died at Philadelphia, Deeember 12, 1838, his death being announced to the courts De- eember 17, 1838, by Wilson McCandless.
James Ross, Jr., was admitted April 17, 1822, on motion of John B. Alexander.
Joseph Chambers was admitted April 29, 1822, on motion of John MeDonald.
Robert Burke was admitted August 6, 1822, on motion of Charles Shaler. His death was announced to the courts Septen- ber 19, 1836, by Walter Forward, a bar meeting having been held on the 12th of the same month.
Henry W. Lewis was admitted August 6, 1822, on motion of Charles Shaler.
Charles Francis William von Bonnhorst, son of Baron Charles William and Marie (von Storich) von Bonnhorst, was born in 1776, at Warendorff, near Muhlhausen, De- partment du Haut Rhin, Germany. His fa- ther being an officer in the military service, gave his son a military education, and he entered the Prussian army at the age of sev- enteen. He served on the staff of Field Mar- shall Blueher, and commanded an artillery corps at the battle of Jena. Soon after he retired from the army, receiving an honor- able discharge, signed by the king himself. Mr. von Bonnhorst eame to America in 1808 and married Rebeeea Taylor, daughter of John Taylor of Philadelphia, at Christ Epis- eopal church in that city, December 8, 1808.
He removed to Pittsburgh in 1810, and was admitted to the Allegheny county bar, Au- gust 8, 1822. He died February 21, 1844, and was buried in Trinity churchyard, Sixth avenue, Pittsburgh. Ilis death was an- nounced to the courts by Andrew W. Loomis and Wilson McCandless. Mr. von Bonn- horst was a lover of law, letters and history. He was a good lawyer, standing well in the profession and had a large and wealthy cli- entele from the best of our German eitizens.
Thomas Gibbes Morgan was admitted September 7, 1822, on motion of Parker Campbell.
William Kerr was admitted November 6, 1822, on motion of Charles Shaler.
John H. Waugh was admitted November 6, 1822, on motion of Charles Shaler.
Silas P. Holbrook was admitted Novem- ber 7, 1822, on motion of Charles Shaler.
Fisher A. Kingsbury was admitted No- vember 7, 1822, on motion of James S. Craft.
Samuel Gormly, son of John and Eliza- beth (Gill) Gormly, was born December 8, 1801, on Second street, below Market street, Pittsburgh, Pa. (now Second avenue). He was educated at Jefferson college, Pennsyl- vania, and read law with Henry Baldwin. He was admitted April 23, 1823, on motion of Charles Shaler. In the year following Mr. Gormly was appointed prothonotary of the Supreme Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania. He retired from practiee early in life and beeame secretary of the Fireman's Insurance Company. In 1867 he was elected secretary and treasurer of the Allegheny Cemetery Company and held that position until his death, which oeeurred at his home in Pittsburgh, December 30, 1871. He was buried in the Allegheny cemetery. Mr. Gormly was a life-long member of Trin- ity Episcopal church, serving on its vestry for many years.
James M. Brunot, son of Dr. Felix and Elizabeth (Kreider) Brunot, was born Sept- ember 20, 1803, at Pittsburgh, Pa. He was
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educated at Jefferson college and admitted September 8, 1823, on motion of Charles Sha- ler. He removed to Baton Rouge, La., where he practiced until his death, July 27, 1856, and was buried there.
Edward Simpson, son of Dr. John and Elizabeth Simpson, was born at Shippens- burg, Pa., in 1802, and was graduated from Washington college, Pennsylvania, with the class of 1819. He was admitted November 5, 1823, on motion of John McDonald. Mr. Simpson died at Pittsburgh, March 7, 1866.
Salmon Brown was admitted November 5, 1823, on motion of Walter Forward.
John Hoge Walker, son of John and Isa- bella (McCormick) Walker, was born Feb- ruary 9, 1800, in East Pennsboro township, Cumberland county, Pennsylvania. He was graduated from Washington college with the class of 1822, and was admitted to the bar on November 5, 1823, on motion of Charles Shaler, and soon thereafter located at Erie, Pa. Mr. Walker was in the state house of Representatives from Erie county from 1832 to 1836; was also in the Senate in 1850, 1851 and 1852, and was speaker dur. ing the session of 1852. Hle was delegate at large to the convention that framed the con- stitution of 1874, and on the death of Will- iam M. Meredith, the president of the con- vention, Mr. Walker was unanimously elected Mr. Meredith's successor.
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