Excerpt from Courts and Lawyers of Pennsylvania, Vol. 1: A History, 1623-1923 It is hoped that the sketches of the lives of the judges will be found reasonably complete, though brief. N o sketches are given of a number of judges now upon the bench, but in all such cases applications to such judges for biographical data have been ignored and the writer has been unable to obtain the necessary information otherwise. In a work of so much detail, minor errors are unavoidable. It is hoped, however, that such errors are not numerous, and none or very few would have occurred but for the fact that most of the members of the bars of the several districts to whom the writer has applied for informa tion have ignored his letters. He feels that he has special cause to com plain of the members of the Committee on Legal Biography of the State Bar Association, but three of whom out of a dozen or more to whom he applied for data concerning judges of their districts having replied to his inquiries. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.