Jeremiah Sullivan Black and Isabel Church

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Husband Jeremiah Sullivan Black ¹

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           Born: 20 Oct 1869 - Fayette Co, PA 1
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         Father: Hon. Chauncey Forward Black (      -      ) 2
         Mother: Mary Dawson (      -      ) 2

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       Marriage: 1891 1

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Wife Isabel Church ¹

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         Father: Frederick Edwin Church (      -      ) 1
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1 F Mary Black ¹

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2 F Isabel Black ¹

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3 F Louise Black ¹

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4 M Jeremiah S. Black ¹

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General Notes: Husband - Jeremiah Sullivan Black

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He was born at the home of his maternal grandfather, John L. Dawson, Friendship Hill, Fayette County, Pennsylvania. He spent his boyhood at Willow Bridges, the home of his parents in Spring Garden township, York County, a short distance southwest of York. He obtained his preliminary education at the York Collegiate Institute and at St. Paul's School, at Concord, New Hampshire. In 1887 he entered Princeton University and was graduated from that institution as one of the leaders of his class in 1891. Soon after leaving the University he decided to enter the legal profession, in which his ancestors had won fame and distinction. He pursued his studies in the office of A. N. Green, member of the York county Bar, and was admitted to the practice of law at York in 1894. Mr. Black soon rose to prominence in his chosen profession. His ability and attainments became recognized after a few years of practice before the local courts and brought him a large clientage. Early in his professional career his counsel and his services were employed in some of the most important causes tried before the York county courts, as well as the Supreme courts of Pennsylvania and the Federal courts. Mr. Black was a close and diligent student of the law from the time that he entered the Bar. His analysis of legal questions and his earnest and forceful manner of presenting points of law to court or jury marked him as a natural leader in his profession. In 1906, while representing York county as a delegate to the Democratic State Convention at Harrisburg, he received the unanimous vote of the convention for the office of lieutenant-governor of Pennsylvania. He at first declined the proffered honor, but was persuaded to allow his name to be placed on the ticket. He was one of the ablest speakers of that eventful campaign. Although he was not elected, his ability was universally recognized throughout the State, in nearly every city and town of which he spoke to large audiences.

1 —, History of York County, Pennsylvania, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1907), Pg 20.

2 John M. Gresham, Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: John M. Gresham & Co., 1889), Pg 158.