Hon. William Maxwell and Caroline Geddis

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Husband Hon. William Maxwell ^{1 2}

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         Father: William Maxwell (      -1816) 1 2
         Mother: Sophia Lashell (      -1837) 1

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• Residence: : Greenville, Mercer Co, PA.

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Wife Caroline Geddis ²

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           Born: 1812 - Lewisburg, Union Co, PA 2
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Children

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1 M James Maxwell ²

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2 M Ralph Maxwell ²

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3 M William Maxwell ²

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General Notes: Husband - Hon. William Maxwell

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He read law in the office of John Lashells, Esq., a well-known lawyer of New Berlin, Union County, Pennsylvania, and was there admitted to the bar in September, 1831. In February, 1832, Mr. Maxwell came to the town of Mercer, and was admitted to practice the following term of court. In March, 1832, he opened an office, and practiced the duties of his profession in Mercer until the autumn of 1866, when he removed to Greenville. In May, 1874, he was appointed president judge of Mercer County, and served on the bench nearly a year.
In September, 1861, by authority of Gov. Curtin, Judge Maxwell raised the Fifty-seventh Pennsylvania Volunteers, of which he was commissioned colonel. He commanded his regiment till sickness compelled him to resign. During his brief term of service his regiment was stationed at Washington, D. C., where he acted as brigadier-general in organizing several regiments into a provisional brigade. It was the constant worry while thus engaged that produced the sickness which necessitated his retirement from the service.
Before the Rebellion Judge Maxwell affiliated with the Democratic party, but when Sumter was fired upon he at once became prominent in organizing the Union party, and subsequently united with the Republican party.

1 John Blair Linn, History of Centre and Clinton Counties, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1883), Pg 302.

2 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 815.