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1860 Milford Township Census
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Attorneys of Somerset County 1795-1820
Since the organization of the county about two hundred attorneys have been admitted to practice in its several courts. Of these about one-half are classed as residents. The names of present members are designated by an asterisk:
Jacob Nagle, admitted December, 1795.
Samuel Riddle, admitted December, 1795.
Samuel Selby, admitted December, 1795.
Abraham Morrison, admitted December, 1795. (Abraham Morrison was one of the first to locate in the then new town of Somerset. He was one of its most prominent representative men and an able lawyer. He continued to reside here until about the year 1840, when he removed to Johnstown, Pennsylvania, where he died.)
Joseph Vickery, admitted December, 1795. (Joseph Vickroy was a surveyor as well as an attorney, and resided in that part of Somerset now known as Cambria county.)
Joseph Weigley, admitted September 27, 1796. (Joseph Weigley removed from Somerset prior to the year 1825. He was an excellent attorney and a good citizen)
John Clark (of York, Pennsylvania), admitted September, 1800.
Roger Perry, admitted September, 1800.
Andrew Dunlop, admitted May, 1801.
Samuel Duncan (of Bedford, Pennsylvania), admitted November, 1801.
John Smith (of Suffield, Connecticut), admitted February 2, 1802.
Otho Shrader, admitted September 5, 1803. (Otho Shrader was a Welshman by birth, and became a naturalized citizen while a resident of Somerset. He continued here a number of years, meanwhile holding various official positions.)
Josiah Espy (of Bedford, Pennsylvania), admitted September 5, 1803. (Josiah Espy was a member of the family of that name so prominent in the early history of Bedford, and the first prothonotary of Somerset county. He also surveyed the plot of the town of Somerset in 1795.)
Jams Carson (of Bedford, Pennsylvania), admitted September 10, 1804. (James Carson also came from Bedford where he was admitted to practice in 1786. He was a resident of Somerset for many years.)
William A. Thompson (of Huntingdon, Pennsylvania), admitted September 10, 1804.
William Ward (of Huntingdon, Pennsylvania), admitted February 11,1805.
John Probst, admitted February 12, 1805.
John Tod (of Bedford, Pennsylvania), admitted May 9, 1805.
James M. Riddle, admitted August 25, 1806.
Samuel W. Leeper, admitted February 23, 1807.
Andrew Henderson, admitted August 29, 1808.
John B. Alexander, admitted May 30, 1810.
Richard Wm. Lane, admitted May 30, 1810.
Walter Forward (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania), admitted August 27, 1810.
John Kennedy (Bedford, Pennsylvania), admitted August 27, 1810.
Robert Findley, admitted August 27, 1810.
Charles B. Ross, admitted February 26, 1811.
George Ross, admitted May 27, 1811.
Charles B. Seeley, admitted, date unknown.
John A.T. Kilgore, admitted February 27, 1815.
Alexander B. Fleming, admitted May 26, 1817. (Alexander B. Fleming was a gentleman possessed of much legal ability. He removed to Wooster, Ohio, about the year 1840, where he remained until his death)
Chauncey Forward, admitted May 26, 1817.
Thomas Irvine, admitted November 30, 1818.
Dryden Forward, admitted February 28, 1820.
(Source: History of Bedford, Somerset & Fulton Counties, PA; 1884)
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