History of Centre and Clinton Counties, Pennsylvania . lege, Carlisle, where he graduated in 1789 withthe honors of his class. During the years 1790 and1791 he taught a select school at Carlisle, meanwhilestudying law with Thomas Duncan, Esq., with whomhe was afterwards associated on the bench of the Su-preme Court of Pennsylvania. In 1792-93 he wasemployed by the trustees of the college as tutor ofthe languages. Among his pupils was the lateChief Justice R. B. Taney, of the Supreme Court ofthe United States. In his autobiography the chiefjustice says of him, I need not speak of his char-acter
History of Centre and Clinton Counties, Pennsylvania . lege, Carlisle, where he graduated in 1789 withthe honors of his class. During the years 1790 and1791 he taught a select school at Carlisle, meanwhilestudying law with Thomas Duncan, Esq., with whomhe was afterwards associated on the bench of the Su-preme Court of Pennsylvania. In 1792-93 he wasemployed by the trustees of the college as tutor ofthe languages. Among his pupils was the lateChief Justice R. B. Taney, of the Supreme Court ofthe United States. In his autobiography the chiefjustice says of him, I need not speak of his char-acter and capacity, for he afterwards became one ofthe first jurists of the country. He was an accom-plished Latin and Greek scholar, and happy in hismode of instruction. And when he saw that a boywas disposed to study, his manner to him was that ofa companion and friend, aiding him in his difficul-ties. The whole school under his care was muchattached to him. In October, 1794, Gen. Washington came throughCarlisle on his way to quell the Whiskey Insurrec-. ,^^^M^< BIOGRAPHICAL AND GENEALOGICAL. 203 tion. Mr. Huston joiued the expedition, and hisvivid description of its various incidents will long beremembered by the many who had the good fortuneto number him among their acquaintances. Jlr. Huston was admitted to the bar in August,1795, and after the erection of Lycoming County,April 13, 1795, removed to Williamsport. The landtitles of this part of Pennsylvania were then in avery unsettled condition. In his introduction to hiswork on land titles of Pennsylvania he says, InLycoming County where I settled were only threeyoung lawyers, admitted the same year in the easterncounties, no one of whom knew any more of landtitles than I did. No law book had been publishedof decisions iu this State except the first volume ofDallas Reports. I did not know in what respectstitles diflered, but I was determined to become a law-yer and understand all this, but how or where I couldobtain the info
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