Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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Hon. David Derrickson and Harriet Patch




Husband Hon. David Derrickson 1 2

            AKA: Hon. David Derickson 3
           Born: 28 Aug 1798 or 1799 - Perry Co, PA 2 3
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           Died: 13 Aug 1884 - ? Meadville, Crawford Co, PA 3
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         Father: David Derrickson (      -      ) 2
         Mother: Mary Wood (      -      ) 2


       Marriage: 1 Jan 1821 3



Wife Harriet Patch 2 3

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         Father: Capt. Richard Patch (      -      ) 3
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Children
1 F Maria Derrickson 1

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         Spouse: James Buchanan Brawley (1844-1886) 4 5


2 F Helen Derrickson 7

            AKA: Helen Derickson 6
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         Spouse: Benjamin Franklin Porter (1833-1895) 8 9
           Marr: 4 Jan 1865 6



General Notes: Husband - Hon. David Derrickson


He came to Meadville, Pennsylvania, in 1818, and graduated at Allegheny Col-lege in 1821. His law studies were prosecuted under the preceptorship of George Selden, Esq., and Hon. John B. Wallace, and in November, 1823, he was admitted to practice. Within three months of his admission to the bar he was appointed Deputy Attorney-General for the district composed of the counties of Crawford, Venango and Warren, serving in that capacity some five or six years, and in 1824 President Monroe appointed him Collec-tor of Internal Revenue for the same district. The duties of the former office brought him in contact with the people, and this assisted him in building up a practice, while collision at the bar with the leading attorneys of several coun-ties did much toward advancing his knowledge of the law. Judge Derickson was diligently engaged in the successful prosecution of his profession until the fall of 1856, when he was elected Additional Law Judge for the dis-trict composed of Crawford, Erie and Warren Counties, and served on the bench the full term of ten years.
During his professional career Judge Derickson turned out a greater number of students than any lawyer that had ever lived in Meadville, and many of them became prominent in the profession. Few men at the bar could boast of a more thorough knowledge of the law than Judge Derickson. Possessing a shrewd, well-balanced, judicial mind, and being an indefatigable student and logical reasoner, he could readily tear away from a case the plausible sophistries woven around it by a more brilliant lawyer, exposing the weak points in the argument, and thus destroying its effect upon the jury. He was recognized as a good, efficient Judge, whose charges were noted for impartiality, and while suave and courteous at all times was unswerving in the performance of his duty. In 1878 he retired from the active duties of his profession, and at the commencement of Allegheny Col-lege in 1884, the degree of LL. D. was conferred upon this venerable jurist. [HCC 1885, 305]

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Sources


1 —, The History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner Beers & Co., 1885), Pg 717.

2 —, The Biographical Encyclopedia of Pennsylvania of the Nineteenth Century (Philadelphia, PA: Galaxy Publishing Company, 1874), Pg 637.

3 —, The History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner Beers & Co., 1885), Pg 305.

4 —, The History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner Beers & Co., 1885), Pg 716.

5 Samuel P. Bates, LL.D., Our County and Its People, A Historical and Memorial Record of Crawford County, Pennsylvania (W. A. Fergusson & Co., 1899), Pg 877.

6 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 113.

7 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 82.

8 —, The History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner Beers & Co., 1885), Pg 868.

9 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 112.


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