Identifier: historyofbeaverc01baus (find matches)
Title: History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania and its centennial celebration,
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Bausman, Joseph Henderson, 1854-
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Publisher: New York : The Knickerbocker Press
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

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e Sixth Judicial District,his commission dating April 5, 1803. Judge Moore removed atonce to Meadville, within his district, from which Beaver Countywas cut off by the revision of the judicial districts of the State 1 p. L., 323. s It is with peculiar satisfaction that we record here the fact, that we have succeeded inwhat was pronounced, and seemed at first to be, indeed, an impossible undertaking, viz.,the procuring of portraits of all the judges, learned in the law, who have ever presided overthe courts of our county. In addition we have also obtained portraits of a number of theassociate judges and of many of the early and distinguished members of the bar. We sub-mit all these, together with others of a more recent date, in reproductions by the art ofthe photographer and the engraver, with the assurance that an added interest will begiven to the text of our history when the reader is enabled to look upon the counterfeitpresentment of the men with the story of whose lives it deals.
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William Wilkins.President Judge, 1820-1824. History of Beaver County 309 in 1806, referred to above, and continued president judge of thenew Sixth District until his death, in the fifty-ninth year of hisage, December ax, 1824. His connection with the courts ofBeaver County thus lasted, as will appear from a comparison ofdates, two years. Judge Moore is said to have been a man ofimposing appearance, retaining the dress and manners of thecolonial period and of the old-school gentleman, wearing smallclothes, with shoe- and knee-buckles, and his long hair done upin a queue, plentifully besprinkled with white powder.1 He isalso reputed to have met the requirements of his position as ajudge learned in the law, and to have been upright and im-partial in his decisions. Hon. Samuel Roberts, who succeeded Jesse Moore as presi-dent judge of Beaver County, was born in Philadelphia, Septem-ber 8, 1763. He received his early education and read law withHon. William Lewis in the same city, being ther

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