. Portraits of eminent Americans now living : with biographical and historical memoirs of their lives and actions. off to better advantage. While his argument is compact and stronglylinked together, these are means by which it is enforced and fastenedupon the jury, without their being aware that they are traveling a pathbounded and defined with the precision of a syllogism. This notice of Mr. Griswold should not be concluded without stating,that he is a man of unblemished moral character, a high sense of honor,and that for the last seventeen years he has been a consistent memberof the Presbyte
. Portraits of eminent Americans now living : with biographical and historical memoirs of their lives and actions. off to better advantage. While his argument is compact and stronglylinked together, these are means by which it is enforced and fastenedupon the jury, without their being aware that they are traveling a pathbounded and defined with the precision of a syllogism. This notice of Mr. Griswold should not be concluded without stating,that he is a man of unblemished moral character, a high sense of honor,and that for the last seventeen years he has been a consistent memberof the Presbyterian church, and a liberal supporter of the various re-ligious and charitable enterprises of the day. To these traits his friends recur with pleasure, since they serve toadorn and finish his portrait, leaving it as exempt from imperfections asoften falls to the lot of erring man. He is a worthy specimen of aBuckeye grafted upon a Yankee stock, and another illustration of what,under our republican institutions, a man can do for himself, being, asbefore stated, in the fullest sense of the term, a self-made -«A J-^ 5 Ha /^c.^^ ^ .^K^^-^ OF PITTSBVB& fKNNSTLTAmA, En// ^i^rJSioffraphiaUS^eehes of£7nm6/ifiAmericans. WILLIAM B. MCCLURE, OF PENNSYLVANIA. 381 HON. WILLIAM B. McCLURE, OF PENNSYLVANIA, President Judge of the fifth judicial district of Pennsylvania, composedof Alleghany county, was born at Willow Grove, near Carlisle. Heis the youngest son of Charles McClure and Eebecca his wife, and onlybrother of the late Hon. Charles McClure. At an early age he removed to Pittsburgh, studied law, and was ad-mitted to practice under the tuition of the late Justice Kennedy, of theSupreme Court of Pennsylvania. In January, 1851, he was nominated by Governor William F. John-ston, and confirmed by the senate, president judge of the court of com-mon pleas of the fifth judicial district of Pennsylvania, and commis-sioned for ten years. In conformity with the provision of the constituti
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