History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania : with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men . ice of Col. T. B. Searight, atUniontown, as a student at law, and was admitted tothe bar in December, 1864. In October, 1865, he waselected district attorney for Fayette County for theterm of three years, and entered upon official duty iuDecember of the same year, and went out of office inDecember, 1868. The term was an arduous one, oc-curring just after the war, and comprising a reign ofcrime. Special sessions of criminal courts were inthose days held to try offenses of high degree
History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania : with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men . ice of Col. T. B. Searight, atUniontown, as a student at law, and was admitted tothe bar in December, 1864. In October, 1865, he waselected district attorney for Fayette County for theterm of three years, and entered upon official duty iuDecember of the same year, and went out of office inDecember, 1868. The term was an arduous one, oc-curring just after the war, and comprising a reign ofcrime. Special sessions of criminal courts were inthose days held to try offenses of high degree. Afterthe term was over he continued the practice of lawin Uniontown, and at the October election of 1869was elected by the Democratic party a member ofthe General Assembly of Pennsylvania for FayetteCounty, and served in the session of 1870, and waselected in that year to the General Assembly of 1871,and served therein; and thereafter, while conductingthe practice of law, engaged (in October, 1871) as acontractor in the construction of the Greensburg andConnellsville Division of the Southwest Pennsylvania. ^^z//J^:/^^^_ .^^^^
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