. Commemorative biographical record of northeastern Pennsylvania: including the counties of Susquehanna, Wayne, Pike and Monroe, containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, and many of the early settled families. a boy he assisted hisfather in the tailor shop, but on leaving school hetaught for a time, receiving at first $11 per month,of which he gave $10 to his father. He had al-ready determined upon the law as a profession,and while teaching he devoted his spare time tohis legal studies with Attorney Dimmick as pre-ceptor. In May, 1846, he was admitted to the B
. Commemorative biographical record of northeastern Pennsylvania: including the counties of Susquehanna, Wayne, Pike and Monroe, containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, and many of the early settled families. a boy he assisted hisfather in the tailor shop, but on leaving school hetaught for a time, receiving at first $11 per month,of which he gave $10 to his father. He had al-ready determined upon the law as a profession,and while teaching he devoted his spare time tohis legal studies with Attorney Dimmick as pre-ceptor. In May, 1846, he was admitted to the Bar,and at once engaged in practice at Stroudsburg inpartnership with his preceptor, under the firm nameof Dimmick & Dreher. This arrangement lasteduntil 1854, and in the meantime Mr. Dreher servedtwo terms as district attorney. On the dissolutionof the firm he continued his practice alone until hiselection, in 1870, to the office of President Judgeof the Twenty-second Judicial District, composedof the counties of Wayne, Pike, Monroe and Car-bon. His extensive practice had already won hima wide acquaintance, especially in the three coun-ties last named, and in his new position he gainedthe esteem and confidence of a wider circle. In.
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