. History of Huntingdon and Blair counties, Pennsylvania . the law, and howwell he succeeded is fully attested by the record ofhis riper years. Thomas Burnside was a resident of Bellefonte,where he had settled down in his early manhood,having come from one of the eastern counties of thefstate. He was of Irish descent, but of his parentageand boyhood little i- He was admitted as anattorney at at April term, 1804, and con-tinued to attend the courts of the county and had aconsiderable practice until August term, 1826, whenhe was a[>pointed president judge of the
. History of Huntingdon and Blair counties, Pennsylvania . the law, and howwell he succeeded is fully attested by the record ofhis riper years. Thomas Burnside was a resident of Bellefonte,where he had settled down in his early manhood,having come from one of the eastern counties of thefstate. He was of Irish descent, but of his parentageand boyhood little i- He was admitted as anattorney at at April term, 1804, and con-tinued to attend the courts of the county and had aconsiderable practice until August term, 1826, whenhe was a[>pointed president judge of the District, composed of the counties of Centre,Clearlicid, Mitilin, and Huntingdon, and afterwards,when Clinton County was erected, it was added to thedistrict. H \ I ippointed bv Governor bhulze tosucceed .1 il Huston «ho hid been ipp nnted tothe Hupremt L jurt in the precedin \| ril Prior to his appointment as )u L I hill een anactive politician in tlie Democrat | iit\ In ISlohe was ekcti 1 t > ( n le s it i sj ec U de ti n in the ^^^%S^ 1^^ hJ. rict . of the counties of Huntingdon, Cen-.\Iillliii, (, and McKean, In 1824 he was? to Stiitc Senate from the Thirteenth Dis-t, ..f Centre, Clearfield, Mc-111, was .• Speaker of theate, ami the chair until the commencement BENCH AND BAR. Judge Burnside succeeded Judge Huston on thebench of the Common Pleas and also on the bench ofthe Supreme Court, and stepped into his shoes in 18:2(1and again in 1845, being his immediate successor inboth instances. In 1841 he resigned his judgeshijihere, and Governor Porter appointed him to anotherin Montgomery County, and George W. Woodwardwas appointed his successor in this district. On the2d of January, 1845, Judge IJuniside was appointed ajudge of the Supreme Court, and he served in thatcapacity until the time of his death in March, succeeded in that court by Judge George \ As
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