. The story of Cooperstown . ng locked upwith Stranahan. The sheriff having compliedwith their wishes, the prisoners soon tired of theirconfinement without further refreshment, and sentfor the plaintiff against Stranahan to come to thejail. This being done they affected a compromisewith him, by which he agreed to cancel a part ofthe debt if Stranahans friends would each payhim twenty dollars. Thus Stranahan was releasedin triumph, and the rest of the night was passedin celebrating the event.^ Ambrose L. Jordans chief rival among thelawyers of Otsego county was his neighborSamuel Starkweather,
. The story of Cooperstown . ng locked upwith Stranahan. The sheriff having compliedwith their wishes, the prisoners soon tired of theirconfinement without further refreshment, and sentfor the plaintiff against Stranahan to come to thejail. This being done they affected a compromisewith him, by which he agreed to cancel a part ofthe debt if Stranahans friends would each payhim twenty dollars. Thus Stranahan was releasedin triumph, and the rest of the night was passedin celebrating the event.^ Ambrose L. Jordans chief rival among thelawyers of Otsego county was his neighborSamuel Starkweather, a man of great physical andmental power. He was in many ways to be con-trasted with Jordan, more strongly built, swarthy,having dark eyes and hair, with a massive head ^ Reminiscences, Levi Beardsley, 223. 158 THE STORY OF COOPERSTOWN set upon broad shoulders, and every feature ofhis face indicative of strong will and energeticaction. Somewhat less of an orator than Jordan,Starkweather equalled him in close B. Slote The Home of Robert CamiPBELL At the beginning of the century John Russell,Elijah H. Metcalf, and Robert Campbell wereresident in Cooperstown. Russell was the secondmember of Congress to be elected from the Metcalf served two years in the legislatureof the State. Campbell, of the well-known CherryValley family, built for his residence in 1807 thehouse which still stands on Lake Street facing thelength of Chestnut Street. He was a man ofstout build, with a full face, slightly retiring fore- THE PIONEER COURT ROOM 159 head, a trifle bald, urbane and unassuming in de-portment. As a pleader at the bar he was onlymoderately eloquent, but he was popularly desig-nated far and near as the honest lawyer, andhis advice was not only much sought but implicitlyrelied upon. In a period not much devoted to theamenities of legal procedure one member of thisgroup of lawyers, George Morell, made a reputa-tion not so much as an advocate as for his faultles
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