History of Doylestown, old and new : from its settlement to the close of the nineteenth century, 1745-1900 . nal career with nothing to fall backon. Ofifice never brings fortune unless prostituted to the greed ofgain and then not always on honest lines. Eleazer T. McDowell, the son of a Buckingliam farmer, and thesilver-tonged advocate of the Bucks County Bar, was a noted man ofhis period. He was admitted, As an advocate he had no 2 At the February term, 1824 the following lawyers were present in the bar:Abraham Chapman, John Fox, Robert Bethell, Jr., Alexander Moon, Jr., JohnSwift, Cha
History of Doylestown, old and new : from its settlement to the close of the nineteenth century, 1745-1900 . nal career with nothing to fall backon. Ofifice never brings fortune unless prostituted to the greed ofgain and then not always on honest lines. Eleazer T. McDowell, the son of a Buckingliam farmer, and thesilver-tonged advocate of the Bucks County Bar, was a noted man ofhis period. He was admitted, As an advocate he had no 2 At the February term, 1824 the following lawyers were present in the bar:Abraham Chapman, John Fox, Robert Bethell, Jr., Alexander Moon, Jr., JohnSwift, Charles Meredith, George Grantham, Joseph Pickering, John Freedly,Levi Pawling, Albert Smith, (filbert Rodman, Jr., Charles E. DuBois, HenryChapman, George Smith, Thomas Morris, Jr., John Wilkinson, Thomas Stew-art, Jr., MathiasMorris, Francis B. Shaw, Thomas L. Boileau, Eleazer T. Mc-Dowell, and Charles Eastburn. Hon. Jolin Ross was the presiding Judge. 3 At the residence of General Graciot, in Washington city, March 10, 1834,E. T. McDowell, Esq., to Miss Caroline Augustus Galvin, both of Doyles-town. ELEAZER T. McDOWELL, 1840. DOYLESTOWN, OLD AND NEW. 145 equal, having the gift of eloquence in a remarkable degree, and hisfine social qualities increased his popularity. The author heard himaddress a jury a few times, and it was a pleasure to listen to his per-suasive eloquence. His graceful delivery, and liquid flow of words,added to his other charms as a public speaker. He possessed agenial personality and so much resembled Daniel Webster in appear-ance, that, on one occasion at a National Convention, the populacewished to take the horses from his carriage and draw him through thestreets, believing him to be the great Godlike, but he would notallow them to do it. The location of McDowells first ofifice we cannot recall, but, inthe spring of 1830, he removed to the frame that stood about oppositethe Doylestown Trust Company building, on the east side of NorthMain street and r
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