HISTORICAL SKETCHES

of the Bench and Bar of Lycoming County, Pennsylvania

In February 1961 the Lycoming Law Association published this volume, edited and compiled by Association member Marshall R. Anspach.  Anspach was born in Milton, Pennsylvania on October 4, 1895 and died April 26, 1962.  In the forward to the text, Anspach offered thanks to many individuals and organizations, but clearly, he was responsible for the formidable task compiling the material that forms the 353 pages of the original text.  The Lycoming Law Association is indebted to Anspach for preserving the history of the organization in so comprehensive a manner.

The Bar History Committee updated of the Anspach volume in 1989.  The original Anspach volume was republished along with up-to-date biographies of judges and members of the Lycoming Law Association.

In 2004, the Association began to digitalize and post the 1961 edition of Historical Sketches, along with the 1989 update.  In February 2005, the project was completed.  Since then, updated sketches of recently deceased members, as well as biographies of newly installed judges who sit in Lycoming County,  have been added to this digital book.

Table of Contents

Forewords to the 1961 edition and the 1989 edition

Introduction:

A new county created
Contest over the county seat
Dirty work at the Russell Inn
Final location of the county seat
Early courts and amusing incidents
Court held at the Russell inn and Rising Sun
The First Court House
Cost of holding early courts
The Second Court House
The great cannon controversy
The 1903 addition to the Court House
Lycoming County Authority
The Fair Play System
The Courts prior to 1791
Lycoming County Courts

President Judges of the Third and Eighth Districts:

1. Jacob Rush
2. William Hepburn
3. Thomas Cooper
4. Seth Chapman
5. Ellis Lewis III

Trial of John Earls for murder (1836)
Hall v. Armstrong

6. Charles G. Donnel
7. Joseph B. Anthony
8. James Pollock
9. Alexander Jordan

Law Judges of the Twenty-Ninth District:

1. James Gamble
2. Hugh H. Cummin
3. John J. Metzger
4. Max L. Mitchell
5. William W. Hart
6. Harvey W. Whitehead
7. George B. M. Metzger
8. Don Marshall Larrabee
9. Mortimer C. Rhone
10. Samuel H. Humes
11. Spencer Willets Hill, Jr.
12. Charles Scott Williams
13. Charles Fritcher Greevy, Jr.
14. Thomas Wood
15. Thomas Charles Raup
16. Clinton Wilcox Smith
17. Robert James Wollet
18. Kenneth Dale Brown
19. William Stewart Kieser
20. Nancy Louise Butts
21. Dudley N. Anderson
22. Richard Allen Gray
23. Marc Francis Lovecchio
24. Joy Reynolds McCoy
25. Eric R. Linhardt
26. Ryan M. Tira
27. William Carlucci
28. Ryan Coffman Gardner

Judges of the United States District Court, Middle District of Pennsylvania - Williamsport

1. Malcolm Stabler Muir
2. James Focht McClure
3. John E. Jones, III
4. Matthew W. Brann

Associate Judges not learned in the law:

1. Samuel Wallis
2. John Adlum
3. James Davidson, M.D.
4. Samuel Harris
5. John Fleming
6. John Cummings
7. Asher Davidson, M.D.
8. Rev. John Thomas
9. Thomas Taggart
10. Solomon Bastress
11. John Smith
12. William Ellmaker
13. Apollos Woodward
14. William Piatt
15. Charles D. Eldred
16. James G. Ferguson
17. Hezekiah B. Packer
18. George P. Lore, Sr.
19. Huston Hepburn
20. William P. I. Painter

;Deceased Resident Members of the Bar

 A to B    C    D to E    F to G    H to J    K to L    M to O    P to R    S to U    V to Z 

Active Members of the Lycoming Law Association

Appendices

Bar Meetings
Lycoming Law Association
Lycoming Law Association Presidents
Legal Aid
Lycoming Reporter
Case of the Pangborn Claim

Illustrations - 1903 Addition to Lycoming County Court House - The first Court House - Thomas Cooper - 1860 Lycoming County Court House - 1971 Lycoming County Court House - Ellis Lewis III, LL.D. M.D.