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convention at Cincinnati, Ohio, at which his Their children w ere: M ary J ., w ife o f Peter fricn ii, Jam es Buchanan, was nominated for G ro ve; Kate G.. w ife o f C a r le s W atson; the presidency. In October. 1856, Mr. Mont Edward H ., J r .; Em ily, who died young; and gom ery was elected to represent his district in William Jcnnison, at present a member of the Congress. On March 1, 1857, he visited bar, and who succeeded his father as president W ashington. D. C ., and participated in the of the Danville National Bank. M r. Baldy inauguration festivities. He stopped at the married (second) Alice Montgomery, daugh “ National H otel/’ where President-Elect ter o f John G . Montgomery, Lsq., and Buchanan and many others o f his friends their children w ere: S a ^ i H urley, w ife o f w ere guests. Here Mr. Montgomery was Dr. I. H. Jennings; Dr. John Montgomery stricken down very suddenly and mysteriously, Baldy, a noted suigcon o f Philadelphia; Alice, it has ^ n c ra lly liccn supposed as the result of who married M r. Hartman, o f P a ris; Henry poisoning, and was brought home, where he W aller, who died young; and Henrietta lingered in much pain fo r seven weeks Cooper Baldy. .Mr. Baldy fo r his third w ife and filially, .April 24. 1857, died. John G. married Henrietta Montgomery, a sister o f his Montgomery was a law yer o f power, whose second wife. He died in 18 9 1, at the age of ser-ices were attended with aoundant suc seventy years. cess, a niaix o f many good parts, a perfect G eorue D. B i; t l e r, a member of the bar, gentlcnun. and a kind and afTcclionatc hus was elected prothonotary in 1863. A fte r band and father. serving in that position and practicing for A R T t t f R W. F r i c k, son o f Geoige .A. Frick, some time in the county he removed from F.sq., graduated at Princeton in the class of Danville, and we lu v e nothing further o f his 1838 . H e studied law at Danville and was work. admitted to the bar o f Montour county. B. K . R h o d e s was bom near Catawissa and A. J . F r i c k, another son o f George .A. came with his father to l>anvillc in 1825. He F rick, Esq., w.os bom in Dans'ille in 1838. He attended the school taught by Ellis Hughes, sttidicil law with William G- H urley. E ^ ., and read law with John Cooper, and was admitted w as ailmiited to practice in 1855. In Septem to the practice o f law in 1842, When the ber. i8 6 t. he entered the UnitM States ser-icc county seat was removed to Bloomsburg Mr. and serx-ed with distinction in the rank o f Rhodes moved to that jilace ami remained captain and afterw ards as lieutenant colonel. there until 1852. when he relum ed to l>anviUe. F o r a number o f years after his return from where he remained until his death. Ju ly 1 1 , the army he sen-cd as fleputy revenue collector i ^ t . in this district. H e died in March, 1915Wic-LIAM C . J ohnston w as bom in what is P a v l L iu d v stood high a l the bar. He now D erry township, Montour county. Feb. serx-cd a temi as district attorney and w.as 14. 18 18, a son o f W alter ami Elizabeth elected to fill the vacancy in the ’niirty-fifth Johnston, natives o f I^anc.astcr county and of Congress caused by the death o f John G. Scotch-Irish origin. Mr. Jolinston received Montgoincr)'. his cilucation in the common schools o f Derry E d w .x r i ) II. BAtnv, son of Peter Baldy. S r., township and Danville, as well as in those of graduated from Princeton College in the class Milton and I-cwisburg- F o r twelve years he o f 1839. before he w.as o f age. H e read law taught school, ami then read law and was ad w ith Joshua W. Comly and was admitted to mitted to practice in 1839. He located in the bar at the age o f twenty-two ycara. lie Jerseytown fo r one year and then came to practiced in Danville during his entire life and Danville. In 1850 he was elected lo the office w as one of the most successful lawyers of the o f register and recorder, which position he county, shrewd and energetic, his reputation held until his dc,ath, November. I ^ . extending throughout this whole section of the I. X . G r i e r, son o f Michael C . G rier and a State. He forgcil to the front rank of his nephew o f Hon. Robert C. G rier, was liorii in profession. He succeeded his father as presi Danville Dec. 27. 1835. He graduated from dent of the Danville National Bank. Mr. I.afaycttc College in 1858. I'rior to entering llak ly w as rct.aincd in nearly all the ini|>ortant college, .and after graiUution, he was con ca.scs brought in Montour county during the n e c t^ with the Susquehanna R iver Telegraph time o f his prartice. He was a tnistcil coun Company, ami later servetl as treasurer o f that selor and represented most of the industries company until it was merged into the Western locatcil in Danville and the ncighborhooil in al! Union. Mr. G rier rca<l law xvith Kdward II. their litigation. M r. Baldy was three times Baldy. Esq.. and wilh Judge John Cooper, and married. His first w ife was .Mary Jcnnison. was admitted to the bar o f Montour county
