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ROBERT McCONAGHY. 608

John, Elizabeth, George, Jacob and David Brown, and had
pleaded not guilty.
Alexander Gwin* and George Taylor’ for the Common-

family to America and located in Montgomery Connty, Pa, in 1793;
studied law and began praetice in 1804; removed to Bellefonte, Pa.,
Mareh, 1804; admitted as attorney at Huntingdon, Pa, at April
term, 1804; member of State Senate, 1811-1812; elected to 14th
Congress; served from March 4, 1815, to April, 1818, when he
resigned; elected to State Senate and was its presiding officer in
1823; in 1826, succeeded Judge Huston on the bench of Common
Pleas; resigned in 1841 and was appointed by Governor Porter to
another judgeship in Montgomery County; on January 2, 1845,
appointed Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania,
serving in that eapacity until death, at Germantown, Pa. See Africa,
J. Simpson. History of Huntingdon and Blair Counties, Pa., 1883;
Biographical Congressional Directory (1774-1911), 1913.

*Avams, JosepH. Resident of Frankstown Township, when ap-
pointed ‘Associate Judge of Huntingdon County; in 1828, elected to
lower braneh of State Legislature; in 1841 (Mar, 15), commission
ag Associate Judge, renewed by Governor Porter; served for five
years, or until county was divided, the division leaving him in new
County of Blair. See Lytle, Milton Seott, History of Huntingdon
County, 1876; Africa, J. Simpson, History of Huntingdon and
Blair Counties, Pe., 1883,

4Gwin, AtmxanpeR, (1807-1848.) Born, Huntingdon, Pa.;
graduated with distinction, from Dickinson College, Carlisle (M. A.),
1827; afterwards studied law in office of Robert Allison, at Huanting-
don; admitted to Bar at Huntingdon, Nov. 9, 1830; divided time
hatween law and polities, the latter leading him to the purchase, on
April 23,1834, of “The Huntingdon Gazette,’ whieh he published
until 1838; in 1839, appointed by Governor Porter as Prosecuting
Attornney for Huntingdon County, holding office three years; elected
in 1845 to State House of Representatives; in 1846, retired from
polities, See Africa, J. Simpson, History of Huntingdon and Blair
Counties, Pa., 1883; Lytle, Milton Seott, History of Huntingdon
County, 1876; Catalogus Collegii Dickinsoniensis, 1857; Souvenir
Edition, “Historie Huntingdon,” 1909.

*Taytor, George, (1812-1871) Born Oxford, Chester County,
Pa.; taught country school in Dublin Township and Through Creek
Valley, having left school at the age of thirteen; subsequently on-
tered, as a clerk, the employment of David R. Porter, prothonotary
of Huntingdon County (afterwards Governor of Penn.); in 1834
began to read law in office of Andrew P. Wilson, and while s student,
edited a Demoeratic newspaper; admitted to Bar at Huntingdon,
April 12, 1836; entered partnership with John G. Miles under firm
name, Miles & Taylor; in October, 1843, retired from firm; he was
elected Treasurer of the county, serving two years; then prepared
for Presbyterian ministry, but sbandoned intention and returned to

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