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Side lights on the bench and bar of Chester County

Side lights on the bench and bar of Chester County

Author: MacElree, Wilmer Worthington

Description: Side lights on the bench and bar of Chester County. MacElree, Wilmer Worthington,. West Chester, Pa.. unknown. 1918.

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Subject(s):

  • Lawyers -- Chester County. -- Pennsylvania
  • Judges -- Pennsylvania -- Chester County.
  • Chester County (Pa.) -- Biography.
  • Pennsylvania -- Chester County

Table of Contents:

  • Front matter
  • Title page
  • Contents
  • Puckletown
  • Contempt at the cross-roads
  • Justice at Chester
  • Voices from the jail of 1724
  • Court-houses of Chester. Also attorneys
  • The removal of the county seat
  • The first triumvirate and the court-house lot
  • The bench of justice
  • Six taverns at the seat of justice
  • The passing of the Justices
  • Our first judge
  • To Quebec with Henry
  • The jail of 92
  • Ancient practitioners
  • Crepe and eulogy
  • From bench to pulpit
  • Isaac Barnard
  • Associate Judges
  • Judge Ross makes some changes
  • Four sketches
  • General jail delivery
  • Judge Darlington
  • Dinner to Lafayette
  • Judge Bell
  • The new court-house
  • Two rejections
  • The courts in 1846
  • The Bar in Judge Chapmans day
  • A novel by Jesse Conard
  • Through Europe with Everhart
  • A worthy list
  • Judge Haines
  • John Hickman
  • Died on the field of honor
  • From Woodward to Wanger
  • Commonwealth vs. Udderzook
  • A judge
  • A bar in Judge Futheys day
  • Instar Omnium--among the philosophers
  • Lewis and Darlington
  • From Bull to Bingham
  • "Ned" Bingham
  • Portraits
  • John Pinkerton
  • "Charlie" Pennypacker
  • The Annex Justitia--nil nisi bonum
  • Wayne Macveagh
  • The Coatesville "Lynching"
  • The monument on the court-house lawn

Date Added:  2/28/2006 09:24:00 PM

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