. History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania and its centennial celebration,. d was born July 15, 1809, in Phila-delphia, where his parents resided for some time after theirmarriage. Judge Achesons long and eminently useful life ispart of the history of Washington County. He was a son ofWashington College, graduating in the class of 1827. His lawstudies were conducted in Washington under William Baird,Esq., and he was there admitted to the bar in June, 1832. Forover fifty years he was identified either as lawyer, deputy attor-ney general (district attorney), or judge with the legal affairsof his c
. History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania and its centennial celebration,. d was born July 15, 1809, in Phila-delphia, where his parents resided for some time after theirmarriage. Judge Achesons long and eminently useful life ispart of the history of Washington County. He was a son ofWashington College, graduating in the class of 1827. His lawstudies were conducted in Washington under William Baird,Esq., and he was there admitted to the bar in June, 1832. Forover fifty years he was identified either as lawyer, deputy attor-ney general (district attorney), or judge with the legal affairsof his county. After his term of service as president judge ex-pired he returned to the bar, and associated with his son, MarcusC. Acheson, and his nephew, James I. Brownson, Jr., he con-tinued in active practice until his death, on July 10, F. Acheson, a son, is at present (1904) a representativefrom Washington County, Pa., in the National Congress. Hon. Henry Hice was the first president judge of the newThirty-sixth Judicial District, to which position he was ap-. B. B. Judge, 1866-1867. History of Beaver County 319 pointed and commissioned on the 30th of April, 1874. He waselected for the following term and served to its close on January1, 1885, when he resumed his practice at the bar of BeaverCounty. Judge Hice was born in Hopewell township, thiscounty, January 24, 1834. He began the study of law in 1857with Col. Richard P. Roberts, and was admitted to the bar ofhis native county in June, 1859. He entered into partnershipwith his preceptor immediately afterwards, and this relationcontinued until the death of Colonel Roberts at the battle ofGettysburg. From 1871 to 1877 his home was in Beaver Falls,but in the latter year he returned to Beaver. The judge has formany years been the legal adviser of the Harmony Society andthe Pittsburg & Lake Erie Railroad, and closely connected withmany of the most important business enterprises of the pract
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