. History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania and its centennial celebration,. William Wilkins. N. P. Fetterman, a younger brother ofW. W. Fetterman, did not come until 1832. The most regular prac-titioner from abroad was Isaac Leet, of Washington. By a reference to the list of attorneys admitted to practisein the county (see end of this chapter) it will be seen that therewere but few admissions between the date of the first court (1804)and the year mentioned in this quotation. The notices to follow will be mainly limited to deceasedlawyers who were resident for a shorter or longer time in thecount
. History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania and its centennial celebration,. William Wilkins. N. P. Fetterman, a younger brother ofW. W. Fetterman, did not come until 1832. The most regular prac-titioner from abroad was Isaac Leet, of Washington. By a reference to the list of attorneys admitted to practisein the county (see end of this chapter) it will be seen that therewere but few admissions between the date of the first court (1804)and the year mentioned in this quotation. The notices to follow will be mainly limited to deceasedlawyers who were resident for a shorter or longer time in thecounty, and will be in the order of their dates of admission. John R. Shannon was born in Washington County, Pa.,October 11, 1784, and was admitted to the bar of Beaver CountyOctober 3, 1808. He became a good lawyer and was a man ofinfluence. In politics he was a Democrat, and he was a memberof the lower branch of the Legislature for four years, , with General Samuel Power, he was instrumental insecuring an appropriation of $100,000 for the construction of the. Alexander Addison. Admitted 1787. Died, Judge Fifth District, 17Q1-1J History of Beaver County 343 Beaver division of the Pennsylvania Canal. Mr. Shannon re-mained a bachelor to the end of his life. He died in Erie, Febru-ary 4, i860, having removed from Beaver to that city just beforethe war. He was brought back to Beaver and buried in theold cemetery. Sylvester Dunham, a native of New England, was in his daya prominent practitioner at the Beaver bar, to which he was ad-mitted June 2, 1817. He was a Whig in politics, and a goodstump speaker. He died in Rochester, Pa., May 24, 1867, agedseventy-four. Walter Forward, a frequent practitioner in Beaver, was oneof the most talented of this early group of lawyers; a manmassive in body and intellect. He came from Somerset County,to Pittsburg, where most of his laurels were won. He was ad-mitted to the bar of this county, April 9, 1821. We cannot re-peat
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