ANDREW GREGG CURTIN was born in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania. He studied law both privately and at Dickinson College in Carlisle and was admitted to the Bar of Centre County in 1839,…

JOHN WHITE GEARY was born near Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania. An 1841 graduate of Jefferson College, he studied civil engineering and law, was admitted to the Bar, and taught school. He…

JOHN FREDERICK HARTRANFT was born in New Hanover, Pennsylvania. He attended Marshall College in Pennsylvania and graduated from Union College in New York in 1853. He then worked as an…

A native of Kingston, Pennsylvania, HENRY MARTYN HOYT studied at Lafayette College and graduated from Williams College, going on to teach school. A student and then practitioner of law, he…

ROBERT EMORY PATTISON was born in Quantico, Maryland and educated at public schools in Philadelphia. He studied law, was admitted to the Bar in 1872, and began a private law…

JAMES ADDAMS BEAVER was born in Millerstown, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Jefferson College in 1856, studied law, and was admitted to the Center County Bar in January 1859. He entered…

DANIEL HARTMAN HASTINGS was born in Salona, Pennsylvania. He taught school in the winter months and worked on his father's farm during the summer. While serving as Principal of Bellefonte…

WILLIAM ALEXIS STONE was born in Delmar, Pennsylvania. After serving as a private in the Civil War, he studied law, was admitted to the Bar in 1870, and began a…

Born in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, SAMUEL WHITAKER PENNYPACKER was a private in the 26th Pennsylvania Emergency Regiment during the Civil War. He studied law privately and at the University of Pennsylvania…

EDWIN SYDNEY STUART was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He attended Philadelphia public schools until he was fourteen, when he began clerking in a bookstore. Rising quickly in authority, he eventually…

JOHN KINLEY TENER was born in County Tyrone, Ireland and at the age of ten moved with his family to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he attended public schools. After working as…

Born in Huntingdon County in central Pennsylvania, MARTIN GROVE BRUMBAUGH attended Juniata College and then studied mathematics at the State Normal School (i.e., teacher training school) in Millersville, where he…