. History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania and its centennial celebration,. san orator. He was also largely interested in some of the greatbusiness enterprises of his day. Baldwin was one of the threemighty men of Beaver Countys first court, Wilkins and Gibsonbeing the other two. His library was the finest in the West,composed of all the English and American Reports, many of theformer being in black letter. Isaac Kerr was admitted to the bar of Washington County inAugust, 1800, and to that of Allegheny County, December 25,1800, on motion of Parker Campbell, which would indicate thathe belonged t
. History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania and its centennial celebration,. san orator. He was also largely interested in some of the greatbusiness enterprises of his day. Baldwin was one of the threemighty men of Beaver Countys first court, Wilkins and Gibsonbeing the other two. His library was the finest in the West,composed of all the English and American Reports, many of theformer being in black letter. Isaac Kerr was admitted to the bar of Washington County inAugust, 1800, and to that of Allegheny County, December 25,1800, on motion of Parker Campbell, which would indicate thathe belonged to Washington. We can learn nothing further ofhim. James Mountain was born in 1771, in the north of Ireland,and was a typical product of the sod. His petition to be madea naturalized citizen of the United States was presented to theCircuit Court for Washington County, Pa., November 7, was entered on the roll of attorneys in that county in thesame year, having studied law and been admitted to the bar inhis native country. The fame of his eloquence, wit, and humor. Joseph C. Wilson,Associate Judge of the County of Beaver. History of Beaver County 341 still remains at the bar of Washington County. In 1796 hewas teaching in the Canonsburg Academy, at Canonsburg, Pa.,and is said to have been of large classical Afterhis admission at Washington he went to Pittsburg to practise,and died there September 13, 1813, when only forty-two yearsof age. He was buried in the graveyard of the First PresbyterianChurch of that city. A son, Algernon S. Mountain, was after-wards a well known attorney in the same city. The father didconsiderable business at the Beaver County bar, and was counselfor the defense of James Bell in one of the first murder trials ofthe county. Robert Moore was one of those signing the roll of first at-torneys admitted to practise at Beaver, and was one of the mosteminent for learning and ability among the lawyers who locatedthere. He was the grandfather
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