HISTORICAL SKETCHES
of the Bench and Bar of Lycoming County, Pennsylvania

[Back-Preface] [Next-1961 Forward]

Table of Contents

Foreword to the 1961 edition

Foreword to the 1989 edition

Introduction:

A new county created
Contest over the county seat
Dirty work at the Russell Inn
Final location of the county seat
Early courts and amusing incidents
Court held at the Russell inn and Rising Sun
The First Court House
Cost of holding early courts
The Second Court House
The great cannon controversy
The 1903 addition to the Court House
Lycoming County Authority
The Fair Play System
The Courts prior to 1791
Lycoming County Courts

President Judges of the Third and Eighth Districts:

1. Jacob Rush
2. William Hepburn
3. Thomas Cooper
4. Seth Chapman
5. Ellis Lewis III

6. Charles G. Donnel
7. Joseph B. Anthony
8. James Pollock
9. Alexander Jordan

Law Judges of the Twenty-Ninth District:

1. James Gamble
2. Hugh H. Cummin
3. John J. Metzger
4. Max L. Mitchell
5. William W. Hart
6. Harvey W. Whitehead
7. George B. M. Metzger
8. Don Marshall Larrabee
9. Mortimer C. Rhone
10. Samuel H. Humes
11. Spencer Willets Hill, Jr.
12. Charles Scott Williams
13. Charles Fritcher Greevy, Jr.
14. Thomas Wood
15. Thomas Charles Raup
16. Clinton Wilcox Smith
17. Robert James Wollet
18. Kenneth Dale Brown
19. William Stewart Kieser
20. Nancy Louise Butts
21. Dudley N. Anderson
22. Richard Allen Gray
23. Marc Francis Lovecchio
24. Eric R. Linhardt

Judges of the United States District Court, Middle District of Pennsylvania - Williamsport

1. Malcolm Stabler Muir
2. James Focht McClure
3. John E. Jones, III
4. Matthew W. Brann

Associate Judges not learned in the law:

1. Samuel Wallis
2. John Adlum
3. James Davidson, M.D.
4. Samuel Harris
5. John Fleming
6. John Cummings
7. Asher Davidson, M.D.
8. Rev. John Thomas
9. Thomas Taggart
10. Solomon Bastress
11. John Smith
12. William Ellmaker
13. Apollos Woodward
14. William Piatt
15. Charles D. Eldred
16. James G. Ferguson
17. Hezekiah B. Packer
18. George P. Lore, Sr.
19. Huston Hepburn
20. William P. I. Painter

Deceased Resident Members of the Bar

 A to B    C    D to E    F to G    H to J    K to L    M to O    P to R    S to U    V to Z 

Living Members of the Lycoming Law Association

Appendices

Bar Meetings
Lycoming Law Association
Legal Aid
Lycoming Reporter
Case of the Pangborn Claim
Lycoming Law Association Presidents

Illustrations

ELLIS LEWIS III, LL.D. M.D.
The first Court House
Thomas Cooper
1903 Addition to Lycoming County Court House
1903 Addition to Lycoming County Court House
Thomas Cooper
1860 Lycoming County Court House
1971 Lycoming County Court House