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Excerpt from The Courts of Justice, Bench and Bar of Washington County, Pennsylvania: With Sketches of the Early Court-Houses, the Judicial System, the Law Judges, and the Roll of Attorneys of That County; And a History of the Erection and Dedication of the Court-House of 1900; With Portraits and Illustrations This volume, prepared during the summer and fall of 1901, but containing a utilization of notes of studies in local history covering a period of over twenty years, is chie y for the information and entertainment of the good people to follow us, with whom an interest in the things of the olden time shall the more and more increase as the years to come shall change into the years of the past. In the preparation of every part of the work, very great care has been observed, both as to the matters that are of the long ago and as to those that belong to our own day, with, it is believed, a fair degree of success where accuracy was at all possible. 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."